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Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 995 - 1084 (1997)

Synthesis of the elements in stars: forty years of progress

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George Wallerstein
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

Icko Iben, , Jr.
University of Illinois, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Peter Parker
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8124

Ann Merchant Boesgaard
Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Gerald M. Hale
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544

Arthur E. Champagne
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27594
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706

Charles A. Barnes
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Franz Käppeler
Forschungzentrum, Karlsruhe, D-76021, Germany

Verne V. Smith
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968-0515

Robert D. Hoffman
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721

Frank X. Timmes
University of California at Santa Cruz, California 95064

Chris Sneden
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

Richard N. Boyd
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Bradley S. Meyer
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29630

David L. Lambert
University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

Forty years ago Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle combined what we would now call fragmentary evidence from nuclear physics, stellar evolution and the abundances of elements and isotopes in the solar system as well as a few stars into a synthesis of remarkable ingenuity. Their review provided a foundation for forty years of research in all of the aspects of low energy nuclear experiments and theory, stellar modeling over a wide range of mass and composition, and abundance studies of many hundreds of stars, many of which have shown distinct evidence of the processes suggested by B2FH. In this review we summarize progress in each of these fields with emphasis on the most recent developments.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.69.995
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.69.995

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