Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process

JJ Cowan, C Sneden, JE Lawler, A Aprahamian… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living reviews in relativity, 2017 - Springer
The mergers of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for Advanced LIGO and future GW detectors. The …

Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

D Kasen, B Metzger, J Barnes, E Quataert… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The cosmic origin of elements heavier than iron has long been uncertain. Theoretical
modelling,,,,,, shows that the matter that is expelled in the violent merger of two neutron stars …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger

I Arcavi, G Hosseinzadeh, DA Howell, C McCully… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two neutron stars has been predicted to produce an optical–infrared transient
(lasting a few days) known as a 'kilonova', powered by the radioactive decay of neutron-rich …

Gigaelectronvolt emission from a compact binary merger

A Mei, B Banerjee, G Oganesyan, OS Salafia… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
An energetic γ-ray burst (GRB), GRB 211211A, was observed on 11 December 2021,.
Despite its long duration, typically associated with bursts produced by the collapse of …

Modeling GW170817 based on numerical relativity and its implications

M Shibata, S Fujibayashi, K Hotokezaka, K Kiuchi… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Gravitational-wave observation together with a large number of electromagnetic
observations shows that the source of the latest gravitational-wave event, GW170817 …

A new moment-based general-relativistic neutrino-radiation transport code: Methods and first applications to neutron star mergers

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a new moment-based energy-integrated neutrino transport code for neutron star
merger simulations in general relativity. In the merger context, ours is the first code to include …

Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
The coalescence of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground …

Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW170817: long-term remnant evolutions, winds, remnant disks, and nucleosynthesis

V Nedora, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds, and
nucleosynthesis in neutron star (NS) merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass …