Hydrogen burning of 17O in classical novae

A Chafa1, V Tatischeff, P Aguer

  • 1USTHB-Faculté de Physique, BP 32, El-Alia, 16111 Bab Ezzouar, Algiers, Algeria.

Physical Review Letters
|August 11, 2005
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