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) …

[HTML][HTML] Origin of the elements

A Arcones, FK Thielemann - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
What is the origin of the oxygen we breathe, the hydrogen and oxygen (in form of water
H2O) in rivers and oceans, the carbon in all organic compounds, the silicon in electronic …

Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars

M Oertel, M Hempel, T Klähn, S Typel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A review is given of various theoretical approaches for the equation of state (EoS) of dense
matter, relevant for the description of core-collapse supernovae, compact stars, and compact …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Collapsars as a major source of r-process elements

DM Siegel, J Barnes, BD Metzger - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The production of elements by rapid neutron capture (r-process) in neutron-star mergers is
expected theoretically and is supported by multimessenger observations,–of gravitational …

The overarching framework of core-collapse supernova explosions as revealed by 3D fornax simulations

A Burrows, D Radice, D Vartanyan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We have conducted 19 state-of-the-art 3D core-collapse supernova simulations spanning a
broad range of progenitor masses. This is the largest collection of sophisticated 3D …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

The impact of individual nuclear properties on r-process nucleosynthesis

MR Mumpower, R Surman, GC McLaughlin… - Progress in Particle and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The astrophysical rapid neutron capture process or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed
to be responsible for the production of approximately half the heavy element abundances …

Production of all the r-process nuclides in the dynamical ejecta of neutron star mergers

S Wanajo, Y Sekiguchi, N Nishimura… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies suggest that binary neutron star (NS–NS) mergers robustly produce heavy r-
process nuclei above the atomic mass number A∼ 130 because their ejecta consist of …

Revisiting the SN1987A gamma-ray limit on ultralight axion-like particles

A Payez, C Evoli, T Fischer, M Giannotti… - … of Cosmology and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We revise the bound from the supernova SN1987A on the coupling of ultralight axion-like
particles (ALPs) to photons. In a core-collapse supernova, ALPs would be emitted via the …