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The origins of nuclear astrophysics at Caltech
Shortly before the start of World War II, several theoretical
physicists, including Hans Bethe and Carl von Weizsacker, advanced the
idea that the sun derives it energy from nuclear reactions within its
core. C. C. Lauritsen and William Fowler, nuclear physicists at
Caltech's Kellogg Laboratory, were among the first experimentalists to
appreciate the application of nuclear physics to stellar interiors.
Post-war strategies for studying nuclear processes in the stars
included an innovative series of unofficial, weekly seminars with Mt.
Wilson astronomers at director Ira Bowen's house, the testing of
Bethe's carbon cycle in Kellogg, and the collaboration with a diverse
group of scientists ranging from cosmologist Fred Hoyle to astronomers
Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge. The events leading up to the
publication of the 1957 paper by Fowler, Hoyle, Burbidge, and Burbidge,
in The Reviews of Modern Physics, now regarded as a watershed in the
history of nuclear astrophysics, are discussed. For his work in low-energy
nuclear astrophysics, Fowler won the 1983 Nobel Prize in
physics
Ermakov-Lewis Invariants and Reid Systems
Reid's m'th-order generalized Ermakov systems of nonlinear coupling constant
alpha are equivalent to an integrable Emden-Fowler equation. The standard
Ermakov-Lewis invariant is discussed from this perspective, and a closed
formula for the invariant is obtained for the higher-order Reid systems (m\geq
3). We also discuss the parametric solutions of these systems of equations
through the integration of the Emden-Fowler equation and present an example of
a dynamical system for which the invariant is equivalent to the total energyComment: 8 pages, published versio
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