id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 1g05fb50x1x Antonios Kontos Direct Capture in Nuclear Astrophysics: The Cases of 17O(ρ, γ)18F and 4He(3He, γ)7Be 2012 .txt text/plain 325 12 42 The present thesis studies two such reactions, 17O(ρ, γ)18F and 3He(α, γ)7Be. 17O(ρ, γ)18F influences hydrogen-burning nucleosynthesis in several stellar sites, such as red giants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, massive stars and classical novae. In the absence of strong resonance inside the Gamow window, direct capture can be the dominant contribution to astrophysically important reaction rates. cache/1g05fb50x1x.txt txt/1g05fb50x1x.txt