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Caption: Figure 2.
Nuclear composition of the accreted material at the neutron star surface (blue line) and at ignition depth (red line) after the settling phase simulated using the NucNet Tools single-zone reaction network code. The lower panel in each subfigure shows the abundance ratio in each isotopic abundance between ignition and accretion depth. Binary system parameters are as follows: (a) XH,acc = 0.7, Z = 0.02, and ﹩\dot{m}=0.1{\dot{m}}_{{\rm{Edd}}}﹩; (b) XH,acc = 0.7, Z = 0.01, and ﹩\dot{m}=0.1{\dot{m}}_{{\rm{Edd}}}﹩; (c) XH,acc = 0.7, Z = 0.02, and ﹩\dot{m}=0.5{\dot{m}}_{{\rm{Edd}}}﹩; (d) XH,acc = 0.3, Z = 0.02, and ﹩\dot{m}=0.1{\dot{m}}_{{\rm{Edd}}}﹩. The insets in each panel show the abundance ratio (yign/yacc) for highlighting the change in 1H and 4He prior to ignition.
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