Astrophysical thermonuclear functions
arXiv:astro-ph/9402020 · doi:10.1007/BF00982324
Abstract
As theoretical knowledge and experimental verification of nuclear cross sections increases it becomes possible to refine analytic representations for nuclear reaction rates. In this paper mathematical/statistical techniques for deriving closed-form representations of thermonuclear functions are summarized and numerical results for them are given.The purpose of the paper is also to compare numerical results for approximate and closed-form representations of thermonuclear functions.
17 pages in LaTeX, 8 figures available on request from haubold@ekpvs2.dnet.tuwien.ac.at