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MESA Summer School Urca Labs

Lab Goals
Playing Along With These Notes

Initial Concepts: WDs and degeneray (pre-lab 1)

Degeneracy and White Dwarfs
EOS regimes
White dwarf star structure
Lab 1 model profiles

More Concepts: Reactions (pre-lab 2)

Reaction networks
Carbon burning products
O-burning
Electron-capture / β-decay

Putting It Together (pre-lab 3)

Lab model revisited
Networks used in labs
Aside: A = 23 vs. A = 24
Visualizing Urca shell
Visualizing MESA reactions
Finding other important rates

Integrating Reaction Networks

Reaction Networks 101
Stiff ODEs / Implicit Methods
Implicit Methods for Systems of ODEs
Implicit Methods and Nonlinear Systems
CNO Burning Example
CNO via pynucastro
Rate Approximations
Equilibrium

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MESA Summer School Urca Notebooks

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By Michael Zingale