Interstellar Nitrogen Isotope Ratios: Measurements on Tracers of C14N and C15N by J. L. Chen, J. S. Zhang, C. Henkel, Y. T. Yan, H. Z. Yu, Y. X. Wang, Y. P. Zou, J. Y. Zhao, X. Y. Wang

“…The nitrogen isotope ratio ^14 N/ ^15 N is a powerful tool to trace Galactic stellar nucleosynthesis and constrain Galactic chemical evolution. …”
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Transition Probabilities of Near-infrared Ce iii Lines from Stellar Spectra: Applications to Kilonovae by Nanae Domoto, Jae-Joon Lee, Masaomi Tanaka, Ho-Gyu Lee, Wako Aoki, Miho N. Ishigaki, Shinya Wanajo, Daiji Kato, Kenta Hotokezaka

“…Kilonova spectra provide us with information of r -process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers. However, it is still challenging to identify individual elements in the spectra mainly due to the lack of experimentally accurate atomic data for heavy elements at near-infrared wavelengths. …”
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On Low Hubble Expansion Rate from Planck Data Anomalies by Abraão J. S. Capistrano, Luís A. Cabral, Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo, José A. P. F. Marão

“…We analyze the stability of the effective Newtonian constant <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>G</mi><mrow><mi>e</mi><mi>f</mi><mi>f</mi></mrow></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> and its agreement with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints. We show that our results are highly compatible with the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>CDM paradigm, rather extending the perspective for further studies on redshift-space galaxy clustering data. …”
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Ionized-gas Metallicity of the Strong [O iii]λ5007 Emission-line Compact Galaxies in the LAMOST Survey by Siqi Liu, A-Li Luo, Wei Zhang, Xiao Kong, Yan-Xia Zhang, Shi-Yin Shen, Yong-Heng Zhao

“…The N/O measurements of the strong [O iii ] λ 5007 emission-line compact galaxies mainly locate at a plateau at low metallicity, indicating the product of primary nucleosynthesis. The Ne3O2 and O32 relation follows a tight linear relation with no redshift evolution. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of magneto-plasma optical properties toward measurements of opacity relevant for compact binary objects by Angelo Pidatella, David Mascali, Matteo Bezmalinovich, Matteo Bezmalinovich, Giulia Emma, Giulia Emma, Maria Mazzaglia, Bharat Mishra, Bharat Mishra, Giorgio Finocchiaro, Giorgio Finocchiaro, Alessio Galatà, Salvo Marletta, Giorgio Sebastiano Mauro, Eugenia Naselli, Domenico Santonocito, Giuseppe Torrisi, Sergio Cristallo, Sergio Cristallo, Marco La Cognata, Albino Perego, Albino Perego, Roberta Spartà, Aurora Tumino, Aurora Tumino, Diego Vescovi

“…The KN light curve also delivers precious information on the composition and dynamics of the neutron-rich post-merger plasma ejecta (relying on r-process nucleosynthesis yields). In this sense, studying KN becomes of great relevance for nuclear astrophysics. …”
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The Stellar 72Ge(n, γ) Cross Section for weak s-process: A First Measurement at n_TOF by Dietz M., Lederer-Woods C., Tattersall A., Battino U., Gunsing F., Heinitz S., Lerendegui-Marco J., Krtička M., Reifarth R., Valenta S., Aberle O., Amaducci S., Andrzejewski J., Audouin L., Bacak M., Balibrea J., Barbagallo M., Bečvář F., Berthoumieux E., Billowes J., Bosnar D., Brown A., Caamaño M., Calviño F., Calviani M., Cano-Ott D., Cardella R., Casanovas A., Cerutti F., Chen Y. H., Chiaveri E., Colonna N., Cortés G., Cortés-Giraldo M. A., Cosentino L., Damone L. A., Diakaki M., Domingo-Pardo C., Dressler R., Dupont E., Durán I., Fernández-Domínguez B., Ferrari A., Ferreira P., Finocchiaro P., Göbel K., García A. R., Gawlik-Ramie˛ga A., Gilardoni S., Glodariu† T., Gonçalves I. F., González-Romero E., Griesmayer E., Guerrero C., Harada H., Heyse J., Jenkins D. G., Jericha E., Käppeler† F., Kadi Y., Kahl D., Kalamara A., Kavrigin P., Kimura A., Kivel N., Kokkoris M., Krtička M., Kurtulgil D., Leal-Cidoncha E., Leeb H., Lo Meo S., Lonsdale S. J., Macina D., Manna A., Marganiec J., Martínez T., Masi A., Massimi C., Mastinu P., Mastromarco M., Maugeri E. A., Mazzone A., Mendoza E., Mengoni A., Milazzo P. M., Mingrone F., Musumarra A., Negret A., Nolte R., Oprea A., Patronis N., Pavlik A., Perkowski J., Porras I., Praena J., Quesada J. M., Radeck D., Rauscher T., Rubbia C., Ryan J. A., Sabaté-Gilarte M., Saxena A., Schillebeeckx P., Schumann D., Smith A. G., Sosnin N. V., Stamatopoulos A., Tagliente G., Tain J. L., Tarifeño-Saldivia A., Tassan-Got L., Vannini G., Variale V., Vaz P., Ventura A., Vlachoudis V., Vlastou R., Wallner A., Warren S., Weiss C., Woods P. J., Wright T., Žugec P.

“…The experiment, data analysis and the new MACS results will be presented including their impact on stellar nucleosynthesis, which was investigated using the post-processing nucleosynthesis code mppnp for a 25 solar mass model.…”
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The puzzle of suppression of nuclear level density in N ≈ Z Zn isotopes compared to N > Z by Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee, N. Quang Hung, N. Ngoc Anh, Samir Kundu, S. Manna, A. Sen, T.K. Ghosh, T.K. Rana, G. Mukherjee, R. Pandey, S. Mukhopadhyay, Deepak Pandit, Debasish Mondal, Surajit Pal, C. Bhattacharya

“…A significant reduction of level density for nuclei situated away from the stability line could have critical implications for the calculation of astrophysical reaction rates pertinent to heavy-element nucleosynthesis.…”
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Early Universe Thermodynamics and Evolution in Nonviscous and Viscous Strong and Electroweak Epochs: Possible Analytical Solutions by Abdel Nasser Tawfik, Carsten Greiner

“…These results obviously help in improving our understanding of the nucleosynthesis and the cosmological large-scale structure.…”
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Revisiting Near-infrared Features of Kilonovae: The Importance of Gadolinium by Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto, Daiji Kato, Kenta Hotokezaka, Wako Aoki, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Motohide Tamura

“…The observation of the kilonova AT2017gfo and investigations of its light curves and spectra confirmed that neutron star mergers are sites of r -process nucleosynthesis. However, the identification of elements responsible for the spectral features is still challenging, particularly at the near-infrared wavelengths. …”
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Updated Observing Scenarios and Multimessenger Implications for the International Gravitational-wave Networks O4 and O5 by R. Weizmann Kiendrebeogo, Amanda M. Farah, Emily M. Foley, Abigail Gray, Nina Kunert, Anna Puecher, Andrew Toivonen, R. Oliver VandenBerg, Shreya Anand, Tomás Ahumada, Viraj Karambelkar, Michael W. Coughlin, Tim Dietrich, S. Zacharie Kam, Peter T. H. Pang, Leo P. Singer, Niharika Sravan

“…While no confirmed kilonovae were identified in conjunction with any of these events, continued improvements of analyses surrounding GW170817 allow us to project constraints on the Hubble Constant ( H _0 ), the Galactic enrichment from r -process nucleosynthesis, and ultra-dense matter possible from forthcoming events. …”
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Study of decay properties for Ba to Nd nuclei relevant for the formation of the r-process rare-earth peak (A∼160) by Pallàs M., Tarifeño-Saldivia A., Kiss G. G., Tain J. L., Tolosa-Delgado A., Vitéz-Sveiczer A., Calviño F., Agramunt J., Aguilera P., Algora A., Allmond J. M., Baba H., Brewer N. T., Caballero-Folch R., Coleman-Smith P. J., Cortes G., Davinson T., Dillmann I., Domingo-Pardo C., Estrade A., Fukuda N., Go S., Griffin C. J., Grzywacz R. K., Hall O., Harkness-Brennan L. J., Isobe T., Kahl D., King T. T., Korgul A., Kovács S., Kubono S., Labiche M., Liu J., Madurga M., Miernik K., Molina F., Mont-Geli N., Morales A. I., Nácher E., Navarro A., Nepal N., Nishimura S., Piersa-Silkowska M., Phong V., Rasco B. C., Romero-Barrientos J., Rubio B., Rykaczewski K. P., Saito Y., Sakurai H., Shimizu Y., Singh M., Sumikama T., Suzuki H., Szegedi T. N., Takeda H., Wang K., Wolińska-Cichocka M., Woods P. J., Yokoyama R.

“…In addition to improving predictions of nucleosynthesis models that describe the production of the rare-earth peak at A ∼ 160 via the r-process, these additional experimental data should help to constrain theoretical models for calculations of T1/2 and Pxn in this region.…”
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The X-Ray Luminous Type Ibn SN 2022ablq: Estimates of Preexplosion Mass Loss and Constraints on Precursor Emission by C. Pellegrino, M. Modjaz, Y. Takei, D. Tsuna, M. Newsome, T. Pritchard, R. Baer-Way, K. A. Bostroem, P. Chandra, P. Charalampopoulos, Y. Dong, J. Farah, D. A. Howell, C. McCully, S. Mohamed, E. Padilla Gonzalez, G. Terreran

“…We conclude that our observations disfavor a Wolf–Rayet star progenitor losing He-rich material via stellar winds and instead favor lower-mass progenitor models, including Roche-lobe overflow in helium stars with compact binary companions or stars that undergo eruptive outbursts during late-stage nucleosynthesis stages.…”
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RIB induced reactions: Studying astrophysical reactions with low-energy RI beam at CRIB by Yamaguchi H., Hayakawa S., Ma N.R., Shimizu H., Okawa K., Zhang Q., Yang L., Kahl D., La Cognata M., Lamia L., Abe K., Beliuskina O., Cha S.M., Chae K.Y., Cherubini S., Figuera P., Ge Z., Gulino M., Hu J., Inoue A., Iwasa N., Kim A., Kim D., Kiss G., Kubono S., La Commara M., Lattuada M., Lee E.J., Moon J.Y., Palmerini S., Parascandolo C., Park S.Y., Phong V.H., Pierroutsakou D., Pizzone R.G., Rapisarda G.G., Romano S., Spitaleri C., Tang X.D., Trippella O., Tumino A., Zhang N.T., Lam Y.H., Heger A., Jacobs A.M., Xu S.W., Ma S.B., Ru L.H., Liu E.Q., Liu T., Hamill C.B., Murphy A. St J., Su J., Fang X., Kwag M.S., Duy N.N., Uyen N.K., Kim D.H., Liang J., Psaltis A., Sferrazza M., Johnston Z., Li Y.Y.

“…One is for the neutron-induced destruction reactions of 7Be in the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, and the other is the study on the 22Mg(α, p) reaction relevant in X-ray bursts, which was performed with the resonant scattering method from the inverse reaction channel.…”
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Measurement of the $$ ^{181} $$ 181 Ta( $$n,\gamma $$ n , γ ) cross sections up to stellar s-process temperatures at the CSNS Back-n by Zhendong An, Weiwei Qiu, Wei Jiang, Gaole Yang, Xiankai Li, Zhengfa Liao, Ziyue Zhuang, Xiaoping Zhang, Shengli Chen, Chenchen Guo, Erxi Xiao, Xiao Fang, Xinxiang Li, Hongwei Wang, Xinrong Hu, Bing Jiang, Wenqing Shen, Jincheng Wang, Jie Ren, Xichao Ruan, Dexin Wang, Su-Yalatu Zhang, Wen Luo, Zhichao Zhu, Haoyang Lan, Zongwei Cao, Xu Ma, Yingdu Liu, Pusen Wang, Yi Yang, Ping Su, Xiangai Deng, Wanbing He, Yugang Ma, Chunwang Ma, Yuting Wang, Pengqin He, Renguang Tang, Tao Zhou, Jing Wang, Han Yi, Yue Zhang, Yonghao Chen, Ruirui Fan, Keqing Gao, Qiang Li, Kang Sun, Zhixin Tan, Minhao Gu, Hantao Jing, Jingyu Tang

“…For the characteristic thermal energy of an astrophysical site, at kT = 30keV the MACS value of $$^{181}$$ 181 Ta is 834 ± 75 mb, which shows an obvious discrepancy with the Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars (KADoNiS) recommended value 766 ± 15 mb. …”
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Cerium Features in Kilonova Near-infrared Spectra: Implication from a Chemically Peculiar Star by Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto, Wako Aoki, Miho N. Ishigaki, Shinya Wanajo, Kenta Hotokezaka, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Daiji Kato, Jae-Joon Lee, Ho-Gyu Lee, Teruyuki Hirano, Takayuki Kotani, Masayuki Kuzuhara, Jun Nishikawa, Masashi Omiya, Motohide Tamura, Akitoshi Ueda

“…Observations of the kilonova from the neutron star merger event GW170817 opened a way to study r -process nucleosynthesis directly using neutron star mergers. It is, however, challenging to identify individual elements in kilonova spectra due to a lack of complete atomic data, in particular at near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. …”
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Experimental observation of the M1 scissors mode in 254No by F.L. Bello Garrote, A. Lopez-Martens, A.C. Larsen, I. Deloncle, S. Péru, F. Zeiser, P.T. Greenlees, B.V. Kheswa, K. Auranen, D.L. Bleuel, D.M. Cox, L. Crespo Campo, F. Giacoppo, A. Görgen, T. Grahn, M. Guttormsen, T.W. Hagen, L. Harkness-Brennan, K. Hauschild, G. Henning, R.-D. Herzberg, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, T.A. Laplace, M. Leino, J.E. Midtbø, V. Modamio, J. Pakarinen, P. Papadakis, J. Partanen, T. Renstrøm, K. Rezynkina, M. Sandzelius, J. Sarén, C. Scholey, S. Siem, J. Sorri, S. Stolze, J. Uusitalo

“…Our results provide a stringent test of phenomenological formulae for the scissors mode currently used in stellar nucleosynthesis calculations. We find that those formulae are not satisfactory, and we recommend using sum-rule estimates assuming a rigid-body moment of inertia instead for describing the scissors mode in superheavy nuclei.…”
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Early Results from GLASS–JWST. XXI. Rapid Asembly of a Galaxy at z = 6.23 Revealed by Its C/O Abundance by Tucker Jones, Ryan Sanders, Yuguang Chen, Xin Wang, Takahiro Morishita, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Tommaso Treu, Alan Dressler, Emiliano Merlin, Diego Paris, Paola Santini, Pietro Bergamini, A. Henry, Erin Huntzinger, Themiya Nanayakkara, Kristan Boyett, Marusa Bradac, Gabriel Brammer, Antonello Calabró, Karl Glazebrook, Kathryn Grasha, Sara Mascia, Laura Pentericci, Michele Trenti, Benedetta Vulcani

“…The abundance of carbon relative to oxygen (C/O) is a promising probe of star formation history in the early universe, as the ratio changes with time due to production of these elements by different nucleosynthesis pathways. We present a measurement of $\mathrm{log}({\rm{C}}/{\rm{O}})=-1.01\pm 0.12$ (stat) ±0.15 (sys) in a z = 6.23 galaxy observed as part of the GLASS–JWST Early Release Science Program. …”
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Search for 22Na in novae supported by a novel method for measuring femtosecond nuclear lifetimes by Chloé Fougères, François de Oliveira Santos, Jordi José, Caterina Michelagnoli, Emmanuel Clément, Yung Hee Kim, Antoine Lemasson, Valdir Guimarães, Diego Barrientos, Daniel Bemmerer, Giovanna Benzoni, Andrew J. Boston, Roman Böttger, Florent Boulay, Angela Bracco, Igor Čeliković, Bo Cederwall, Michał Ciemala, Clément Delafosse, César Domingo-Pardo, Jérémie Dudouet, Jürgen Eberth, Zsolt Fülöp, Vicente González, Andrea Gottardo, Johan Goupil, Herbert Hess, Andrea Jungclaus, Ayşe Kaşkaş, Amel Korichi, Silvia M. Lenzi, Silvia Leoni, Hongjie Li, Joa Ljungvall, Araceli Lopez-Martens, Roberto Menegazzo, Daniele Mengoni, Benedicte Million, Jaromír Mrázek, Daniel R. Napoli, Alahari Navin, Johan Nyberg, Zsolt Podolyák, Alberto Pullia, Begoña Quintana, Damien Ralet, Nadine Redon, Peter Reiter, Kseniia Rezynkina, Frédéric Saillant, Marie-Delphine Salsac, Angel M. Sánchez-Benítez, Enrique Sanchis, Menekşe Şenyiğit, Marco Siciliano, Nadezda A. Smirnova, Dorottya Sohler, Mihai Stanoiu, Christophe Theisen, Jose J. Valiente-Dobón, Predrag Ujić, Magdalena Zielińska

“…However, the prediction of such an observation requires good knowledge of its nucleosynthesis. The 22Na(p, γ)23Mg reaction remains the only source of large uncertainty about the amount of 22Na ejected. …”
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Origin of Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System by Maria Lugaro, Andrés Yagüe López, Benjámin Soós, Benoit Côté, Mária Pető, Nicole Vassh, Benjamin Wehmeyer, Marco Pignatari

“…We consider two large sets of <i>r</i>-process nucleosynthesis models and analyse if the origin of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mn>244</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>Pu in the ESS is consistent with that of the other <i>r</i> and <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi><mi>l</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>w</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (<i>s</i>) neutron-capture process radioactive nuclei. …”
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Shockingly Bright Warm Carbon Monoxide Molecular Features in the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A Revealed by JWST by J. Rho, S.-H. Park, R. Arendt, M. Matsuura, D. Milisavljevic, T. Temim, I. De Looze, W. P. Blair, A. Rest, O. Fox, A. P. Ravi, B.-C. Koo, M. Barlow, A. Burrows, R. Chevalier, G. Clayton, R. Fesen, C. Fransson, C. Fryer, H. L. Gomez, H.-T. Janka, F. Kirchschlager, J. M. Laming, S. Orlando, D. Patnaude, G. Pavlov, P. Plucinsky, B. Posselt, F. Priestley, J. Raymond, N. Sartorio, F. Schmidt, P. Slane, N. Smith, N. Sravan, J. Vink, K. Weil, J. Wheeler, S. C. Yoon

“…NIRSpec-IFU spectra (3–5.5 μ m) were obtained toward two representative knots in the NE and S fields that show very different nucleosynthesis characteristics. Both regions are dominated by the bright fundamental rovibrational band of CO in the two R and P branches, with strong [Ar vi ] and relatively weaker, variable strength ejecta lines of [Si ix ], [Ca iv ], [Ca v ], and [Mg iv ]. …”
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