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The beginning of the article reads: On the Stability of Stellar Neutron Cores The quite regular variation of stellar energy generation with stellar mass has seemed to justify the hope that neither the structure nor the mechanism of energy generation would differ essentially from star to star. With increased knowledge of the rates of nuclear reactions, it has grown clear that such reactions must take place in stellar in- teriors, and that, on the basis of a standard Eddington model, reactions must occur which can account in order of magnitude for the radiation of the lighter stars. In particular it would seem that the formation of deuterons by proton collision, and at the least partially regenerative capture of protons by elements between carbon and oxygen could be made to account successfully for the main sequence stars. ' Nevertheless it has been clear that these reactions could in no way account for the enormously greater radiation of such stars as Capella...