Comment on "from Coulomb Excitation Cross Sections to Nonresonant Astrophysical Rates in Three-body Systems: The Ne 17 Case"

Abstract

Parfenova et al. state in [Phys. Rev. C 98, 034608 (2018)2469-998510.1103/PhysRevC.98.034608] that the results presented by Casal et al. [Phys. Rev. C 94, 054622 (2016)2469-998510.1103/PhysRevC.94.054622] concerning the radiative capture for Ne17 formation are incorrect and their conclusions erroneous mainly because of two reasons: (1) it is "expressed"that the resonant rate is not important for O15(2p,γ)Ne17 since it is negligibly small compared with the nonresonant contribution to the rate, and (2) the electromagnetic dipole cross section predicted is dramatically different from the available experimental data for Ne17+Pb208 at 500 MeV/u [Phys. Lett. B 759, 200 (2016)PYLBAJ0370-269310.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.073]. We demonstrate here that these conclusions are incorrectly extracted from our work.