EuroGENESIS Collaborative Research Projects

CoDustMas:

Cosmic Dust Grains as a Diagnostic for Massive Stars

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Individual projects:

Isabelle Cherchneff, University of Basel (CH)
Dust formation and evolution in supernova ejecta and remnants

Maurizio Busso, University of Perugia (IT)

Sebastian Muller, Onsala Space Observatory (SE)

Millimetre and submillimetre observations of dust and molecules in supernova young remnants

Anton Wallner, University of Vienna (AT)
Supernova produced radionuclides and trace elements studied by AMS

Christof Vockenhuber, ETH Zurich (CH)
The use of AMS for isotopic analysis of pre-solar materials and for the search of SN-prodiced r-process nuclides 182Hf and 244Pu

Associate partners:

Ulrich Ott, MPI Mainz (DE)
Isolation of presolar materials for AMS analysis. Modelling of r-process nucleosynthesis

Alesandro Chieffi, Instituto di astrofisica spaziale e di fisica cosmic (IT)
The influence of mass loss and rotation on the evolution of massive stars


EXNUC:

Physics of compact objects: explosive nucleosynthesis and evolution

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Individual projects:

Jordi José, UPC Barcelona (ES)
and
Jordi Isern, ICE-CSIC, Bellaterra (ES)
Astrophysical modelling and observations of stellar explosions: classical novae, type I X-ray bursts, type Ia supernovae and stellar mergers

Ismael Martel Universidad de Huelva (ES)
and
Maria Jose Garcia Borge, Inst. Matter Structure, IEM-CSIC, Madrid (ES)
Experimental study of charged particle reactions of astrophysical interest for the dynamics of novae and X-ray bursts

Neven Soic, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb (HR)
Experimental nuclear physics inputs for thermonuclear runaways

Sotirios Harissopulos, NCSR Demokritos/Inst. Nuclear Physics, Athens (GR)
Alpha-particle capture reactions relevant to explosive nucleosynthesis

Helmut Leeb, Atominstitut, Technische Uiversitaet Wien (AT)
Microscopic optical potentials at low energies and applications to the p-process

Associate partners:

Chris Ruiz, TRIUMF laboratory, Vancouver (CA)
Direct and indirect measurements of nuclear reactions  with stable and radioactive  beam, of interest for explosive nucleosynthesis
 
Christian Iliadis, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Application of Monte Carlo techniques for setting up reliable nuclear reaction networks

Ernst Zinner, Washington University at St. Louis (US)
Laboratory analysis of presolar nova grains

Fritz Röpke, Max Planck Inst. Astrophysics, Garching (DE)
Modelling of type Ia supernova explosions
 
Stephane Goriely, Inst. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
Nucleosynthesis of elements heavier than iron and related nuclear physics issues

Alison Laird, University of York

FirstStars:

Nucleosynthetic fingerprints of the first stars

Individual projects:

Martin Asplund, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching (DE)
Search for the first (Population III) stars. Improvement of stellar model atmospheres.

Paul Barklem, Uppsala University (SE)
and
Andreas Korn, Uppsala University (SE)
Quantum mechanical calculations of atomic physics data (collision cross-sections, spectral lineshapes)

Corinne Charbonnel, Geneva Observatory, Geneva University (CH)
Computation of nucleosynthetic yields for the new generation stellar models. Development of models for zero metallicity and low metallicity stars

Assoicate partners:

Cristina Chiappini, Geneva Observatory, Geneva University (CH)
Computation of nucleosynthetic yields for the new generation stellar models. Development of models for zero metallicity and low metallicity stars.

Lyudmila Mashonkina, Russian Academy of sciences, Moscow (RU)
Calculations of iron and magnesium based non-LTE spectral line formation in stellar atmospheres

MASCHE:

Massive Stars as Agents of Chemical Evolution

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Individual projects:

Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, Universität Basel (CH)
Massive‐Star and supernovae models including nuclear reactions

Klaus Blaum, Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik (DE)
High-precision measurements of nuclear ground state properties

Roland Diehl, Max Planck Inst. for Extra Terrestrial Physics, Garching (DE)
X-ray and Gamma-ray observations; SN Modelling

Zsolt Fülöp, Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), HAS, Debrechen (HU)
Nuclear reaction experiments with relevance to p-process isotope production in massive star environments

Taygun Güray, Kocaeli University (TR)
p- and a-induced nuclear reaction experiments

Associate partners:

Daniel Bemmerer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (DE)
and
Kai Zuber, Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Dresden (DE)

Anton Wallner, University of Vienna (AT)
Laboratory measurements of nuclear reactions

Claes Fransson, Stockholm University (SE)
Optical/IR observations; supernovae lightcurve theory

Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo, Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, GSI Darmstadt (DE)
Nuclear reactions: experiments & theory

Alessandro Chieffi, Instituto Nationale di Astrofisica, Rome (IT)
Massive‐Star and SN Models

Raphael Hirschi, Keele University (UK)
Massive‐star models

Nikolas Prantzos, Institute Astrophysique de Paris (FR)
Chemical evolution descriptions

Francesca Matteucci, Trieste University (IT)
Chemical evolution descriptions