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 …

Constraining the maximum mass of neutron stars from multi-messenger observations of GW170817

B Margalit, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Constraining the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars from Multi-messenger Observations of
GW170817 - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to our …

Constraint on the maximum mass of neutron stars using GW170817 event

M Shibata, E Zhou, K Kiuchi, S Fujibayashi - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We revisit the constraint on the maximum mass of cold spherical neutron stars coming from
the observational results of GW170817. We develop a new framework for the analysis by …

Binary neutron star mergers: a review of Einstein's richest laboratory

L Baiotti, L Rezzolla - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

The equation of state of hot, dense matter and neutron stars

JM Lattimer, M Prakash - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent developments in the theory of pure neutron matter and experiments concerning the
symmetry energy of nuclear matter, coupled with recent measurements of high-mass …

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 …

The dynamics of binary neutron star mergers and GW170817

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
With the first observation of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and
light, GW170817, compact binary mergers have now taken the center stage in nuclear …

Dynamical mass ejection from binary neutron star mergers

D Radice, F Galeazzi, J Lippuner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present fully general-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with a
temperature and composition dependent nuclear equation of state. We study the dynamical …