 Helium-3 freeze-out estimate with Gamow factors

In the pp-I limit, helium-3 relaxation time is ${\tau }^{-1}=n_1\sqrt{2{\lambda }_{11}{\lambda }_{33}}$. At fixed proton number density, each thermonuclear reaction rate coefficient obeys $\lambda (T)/\lambda (T_0)=(T/T_0{)}^{-2/3}\exp [-\eta (T_0)((T_0/T{)}^{1/3}-1)]$. Taking their geometric mean gives the displayed relaxation ratio with $\bar{\eta }=[{\eta }_{11}(T_0)+{\eta }_{33}(T_0)]/2$. A local power-law approximation instead gives $\tau \propto T^{-(\alpha +\beta )/2}$. These are estimates rather than a complete radial model: the proton number density, composition and pp-II branch change along a real stellar composition profile.