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Prof. Shawn Bishop, Office 2013, Nuclear Astrophysics Lecture 8 Thurs. Dec. 15, 2011 Prof. Shawn Bishop, Office 2013, Ex. 12437 shawn.bishop@ph.tum.de

Alternative Rate Formula(s) We had from last lecture: With: And: And (pg 16, Lecture 6): And we have approximated the S-factor, at the astrophysical energies, as a simple constant function (units of keV barn).

We have (again) Set the argument of the exponential to be (dimensionless) From the definitions of on the previous slide, you can work out that:

A Power Law expression for the Rate First, an algebraic step of substituting into the equation for We substitute this, along with Eeff into above. After some algebra:

Let’s pull out the physics of this complicated formula by trying to write it as something simpler, like a power law function. First, equate the last expression for the rate to something like a power law: Take the natural logarithm of both sides: Differentiate both sides wrt :

Summarizing then: Numerically, Choose a value of temperature to evaluate the rate at: Once we have this value for the rate at some temperature you have chosen, to get the rate at any other temperature, just make the trivial calculation:

Finally, recall

Summary of Reaction Rate

Examples: The core of our Sun has a central temperature of about 15 million degrees kelvin. Reaction Z1 Z2 mu T6 Eeff n p + p 1 0.5 15 5.88 3.89 p + 14N 7 0.933 26.53 19.90 4He + 12C 2 6 3 56.09 42.81 16O + 16O 8 237.44 183.40 Reaction rate becomes more sensitive to temperature as we “burn” heavier nuclei together. Such a large sensitivity to the temperature suggests structural changes in star must occur at some point for certain reactions.

Full Reaction Rates: Comparison Solar abundances, density = 100 g cm-3: Rate p + p reaction 14N + p 12C + a

Reaction Rate: Temperature Dependence p + p reaction 14N + p 12C + a

Energy Generation & Standard Model Let us consider a representation for the nuclear rate of energy production (in units of energy per unit time, per unit mass) to be given by the following mathematical form: Then we can, quite generally, also write: For a Polytrope model, once the solution to Lane-Emden equation is known, then we have the following results (for n = 3 Polytrope):

Using the equations on previous slide, we can now write the scaled nuclear energy generation rate in the very compact and simple form: The luminosity of the star (after settling into equilibrium) comes from the nuclear furnace in the core. Let’s try to write the luminosity in the following form: Where we use the mass-averaged energy generation rate: We use an averaged energy rate because it is clear that not all mass in the star is contributing to the nuclear energy rate: only the core of the star is contributing to the energy generation rate. So, we average over the mass of the star in the hope that the averaged rate times total mass (equation *) gives a reasonable result.

We must now consider the integral: Our differential mass element is, in the scaled radial coordinate (refer to Lecture 2): And, from previous page, Collecting everything into the integral: In Lecture 3 we had:

Finally, then, we have that the mass-averaged nuclear energy rate is given by:

Lane-Emden Function for n = 3 The integral we must consider is We are raising the Lane-Emden function to the power of (3u+s). If this number is large, then we are multiplying by itself many times. The function is always smaller than one: take multiple products of it will cause it to become more sharply peaked, and its tail to grow smaller in magnitude. We can exploit this feature to make a suitable approximation of the function in the integrand above.

The power series expansion of , for the first few terms looks like this: Let’s use the exponential approximation in the integral for Mass-averaged nuclear energy rate:

A Polytrope Sun We had the general energy generation rate expressed as: For the proton-proton chain in the Sun, and (at ). Therefore, we have, in terms of that: Integrating this over the star introduces another from . The integrand of the luminosity function then is something like: Exact e Gaussian Approx.

Structure of Polytrope Sun Let us define the core to be that volume in which 95% of the nuclear energy is generated. We find that this occurs around (page 20). Recall the stellar radius in the variable is . So the core occupies about 23% of the total stellar radius. So the fractional volume occupied by the core is Mass occupied by the core: From plot on next page, it is about 33% of stellar mass. Question for you: This sun is 1 solar mass, and 1 solar radius in size. Take Use these numbers and the result on page 17 to determine the mass of hydrogen per second the Sun burns. Also use: u =2, and s = 4.6

Integrated Luminosity This is 95% at ; this radius corresponds to 1.6/6.89 = 23% of the stellar radius. Let us take this as being an (arbitrary) criterion for defining the core. As a fraction of the star’s volume, the core is only

Mass Interior to Radius Mass contained in the core is about 33%. So, a star the size of our Sun, in purely radiative equilibrium (no convection) has 33% of its mass contained in only 1.2% of its volume!

Derivative of Luminosity

Standard Solar Model: Radial Run of Temperature, Density and Nuclear Energy Rate Pressure Epsilon Arbitrary Units Remember, for n = 3:

Appendix: Scaled Main sequence structure plots Polytrope model, for polytrope index n = 3 Appendix: Scaled Main sequence structure plots

Integrated Luminosity Let us take 95% of luminosity as being the (arbitrary) criterion for defining the core. Then core has a radius As a fraction of the star’s volume, the core is only

Derivative of Luminosity

Mass Interior to Radius Mass contained in the core is about 36%. So, a star the size of our Sun, in purely radiative equilibrium (no convection) has 36% of its mass contained in only 1.3% of its volume!

Standard Solar Model: Radial Run of Temperature, Density and Nuclear Energy Rate Pressure Epsilon Arbitrary Units Solar Model Calculation

Nuclear Generation Rate Using the pp-chain , which is a power law in temperature, with exponent n = 4.6, we end up with the Polytropic energy generation rate expressed on in the integral on the LHS below, where is the Lane-Emden function of index = 3. The L-E function, raised to such a high power, can be approximated to an excellent degree by a Gaussian (RHS), which can then be analytically integrated.