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Nuclear composition and heating in accreting neutron-star crusts

P. Haensel·J. L. Zdunik
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Nuclear reactions in accreting neutron-star crusts and the heat release accompanying them are studied, under different assumptions concerning the composition of the outermost layer formed of the ashes of X-ray bursts. Particular examples of ashes containing nuclides with A ~ 90-110 are considered and compared with a standard A=56 case. In all cases, evolution of a crust shell is followed from 10^8 g/cm^3 to a few times 10^{13} g/cm^3. The total crustal heating produced in the non-equilibrium processes in the accreting crust is 1.1-1.5 MeV per one accreted nucleon. The composition of the accreted crust at densities exceeding the threshold for the pycnonuclear fusion is essentially independent of the assumed initial composition of the X-ray burst ashes.

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P. Haensel, J. L. Zdunik. 2003-05-13. Nuclear composition and heating in accreting neutron-star crusts. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361%3A20030708

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