In recent years, shell model studies have significantly contributed in improving the nuclear input, required simulations of dynamics astrophysical objects and their associated nucleosynthesis. This review highlights a few examples such as electron capture rates neutrino-nucleus cross sections, important for evolution nucleosynthesis supernovae. For rapid neutron-capture (r-process) nucleosynthe...

Recently, we developed a methodology [1-4] of calculating the spin and parity dependent shell model nuclear level density, which is a very useful ingredient in the Huaser-Feshbach theory for calculating reaction rates for nuclear astrophysics[5]. We developed new techniques based on nuclear statistical spectroscopy [6] to calculate the spin and parity projected moments of the nuclear shell mode...