Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on the field of nuclear astrophysics, and particularly the origin of the elements. Nuclear astrophysics is a multidisciplinary field that aims at understanding where everything we see around us comes from and how it came to be. Astronomical observations, astrophysics modeling, and nuclear physics experiment and theory come together to answer important questions like: Where and how are the elements created? How do stars evolve? What drives the different types of stellar explosions? What is left behind after the cataclysmic death of a star? This Resource Letter presents our current understanding of the origin of the various chemical elements, together with modern research and new developments in the field, with a particular focus on the measurement of nuclear properties for astrophysical applications.
Source: American Journal of Physics
DOI: 10.1119/5.0209176
Author: Artemis Spyrou
Institutions: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W4402665558