The Physics of Extreme-Gravity Stars

Session

R process nucleosynthesis

22 Jun 2017, 15:00

122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

415. brief review is made of the r-process and the historical development of ideas about its astrophysical origins

Jim Lattimer

22/06/2017, 15:00

416. R process nucleosynthesis of compact object merger

Jennifer Barnes

22/06/2017, 16:00

417. Kilonova/Macronova Emission from Dynamical and Wind Ejecta of Compact Binary Mergers

Masomi Tanaka

22/06/2017, 16:30

Kilonova/macronova is optical and near-infrared emission powered by radioactive decays of r-process nuclei. Properties of the emission are mainly determined by the opacity in the ejecta as well as the mass and velocities of the ejecta. The opacities of r-process elements are one of the most uncertain factors to predict the properties of the emission. We have recently performed new...

418. Predicting the spectra and lightcurves of macronovae: electromagnetic signatures or the r-process nucleosynthesis

Oleg Korobkin

22/06/2017, 16:45

Neutron star mergers are some of the most energetic events in the Universe, powerful emitters of gravitational waves, mysterious engines behind short GRBs, possibly the main sites of the strong r-process nucleosynthesis. A new type of transients, -- called macronova or kilonova -- has been recently suggested and possibly discovered in the afterglow of GRB 130603B. These isotropic,...

419. Learning from EM observations of compact binary mergers

Nial Tanvir

22/06/2017, 17:00