出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Type I X-ray bursts are recurrent, violent runaway thermonuclear explosions on the surface of
an accreting neutron star in a binary star system, driven by reactions on proton-rich unstable
nuclei via the rp-process. Large-scale nucleosynthesis calculations are necessary to determine
the observed X-ray luminosity and the possible production of rare, low-mass p-nuclides in these
outbursts. We have, for the first time, used a Monte Carlo approach with a post-processing nucleosynthesis
code to correlate the uncertainties in the (mostly unmeasured) input thermonuclear
reaction rates with the uncertainties in the energy generation and synthesized nuclear abundances
throughout a burst. Preliminary results and future plans for this study will be discussed.
