NEUTRINO ENERGY-LOSS IN STELLAR INTERIORS .7. PAIR, PHOTO, PLASMA, BREMSSTRAHLUNG, AND RECOMBINATION NEUTRINO PROCESSES

Citation
N. Itoh et al., NEUTRINO ENERGY-LOSS IN STELLAR INTERIORS .7. PAIR, PHOTO, PLASMA, BREMSSTRAHLUNG, AND RECOMBINATION NEUTRINO PROCESSES, The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 102(2), 1996, pp. 411-424
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN journal
00670049
Volume
102
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
411 - 424
Database
ISI
SICI code
0067-0049(1996)102:2<411:NEISI.>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The results of the calculations of the neutrino energy-loss rates resu lting from pair, photo-, plasma, bremsstrahlung, and recombination neu trino processes are summarized in the form of analytic fitting formula e and tables. Care has been taken in order to serve the convenience of the users of these results. We have tried to make the present paper a s self-contained as possible. The contents of the present paper are in tended to serve as useful physical input data for stellar evolution co mputations. We intend to publish the numerical data and the FORTRAN co des for the results of the neutrino energy-loss rates in the CD-ROM se ries of the American Astronomical Society. In the CD-ROM, we intend to give three options for the FORTRAN codes. The first option comprises the results with analytic fitting formulae only. The second option com prises the results with analytic fitting formulae for the bremsstrahlu ng and recombination neutrino processes, and the numerical tables for the pair, photo-, and plasma neutrino processes with a standard quadra tic interpolation procedure. In this option, the grid of log T for the pair neutrino energy-loss rate is 0.2. The third option is a variant of the second option, with the replacement of the grid of log T for th e pair neutrino energy-loss rate to be 0.05.