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Star bursts pinned down

Nature Physics volume 7, pages 281–282 (2011)Cite this article

One of the main uncertainties in the burn-up of X-ray bursts from neutron stars has been removed with the weighing of a key nucleus, 65As, at a new ion storage ring.

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