Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 896, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab91a9
Keywords
Nucleosynthesis; Stellar abundances; Nuclear astrophysics; Neutron stars
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Funding
- Fission In R-process Elements (FIRE) topical collaboration in nuclear theory - U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-02ER41216, DE-FG02-95-ER40934, DE-SC0018232]
- National Science Foundation Hub (N3AS) [PHY-1630782]
- US Department of Energy through the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Nuclear Security Administration of U.S. Department of Energy [89233218CNA000001]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1430152]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-02ER41216, DE-SC0018232] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We apply for the first time fission yields determined across the chart of nuclides from the macroscopic-microscopic theory of the Finite Range Liquid Drop Model to simulations of rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis. With the fission rates and yields derived within the same theoretical framework utilized for other relevant nuclear data, our results represent an important step toward self-consistent applications of macroscopic-microscopic models inr-process calculations. The yields from this model are wide for nuclei with extreme neutron excess. We show that these wide distributions of neutron-rich nuclei, and particularly the asymmetric yields for key species that fission at late times in therprocess, can contribute significantly to the abundances of the lighter heavy elements, specifically the light precious metals palladium and silver. Since these asymmetric yields correspondingly also deposit into the lanthanide region, we consider the possible evidence for coproduction by comparing our nucleosynthesis results directly with the trends in the elemental ratios of metal-poor stars rich inr-process material. We show that forr-process enhanced stars palladium over europium and silver over europium display mostly flat trends suggestive of coproduction and compare to the lanthanum over europium trend which is often used to justify robustness arguments in the lanthanide region. We find that such robustness arguments may be extendable down to palladium and heavier and demonstrate that fission deposition is a mechanism by which such a universality or robustness can be achieved.
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