The Radiative Transfer and Atomic Physics of Kilonovae

Session

Monday morning

4 Sept 2023, 09:30

Wenner-Gren Center

2. Welcome

Anders Jerkstrand (Stockholm University)

04/09/2023, 09:30

1. Setting the stage: r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers

Stephan Rosswog (Universität Hamburg)

04/09/2023, 09:45

4. An overview heavy element nucleosynthesis:the r-process and the vr-process

Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo

04/09/2023, 11:00

31. General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Proto-Neutron Stars

Dhruv Desai

04/09/2023, 11:55

I present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of one potential r-process site associated with core collapse supernovae: the neutrino-driven wind. These outflows are launched from a hot proto-neutron star (PNS) remnant by neutrino-heating above their surfaces, within seconds after the collapse of a massive star. Previous work has shown that spherically symmetric winds from...

23. Nucleosynthesis and Kilonova in neutron star mergers: effects of nuclear matter properties

Giacomo Ricigliano (Technical University of Darmstadt)

04/09/2023, 12:15

Contributed talk

Matter expelled from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can harbor r-process nucleosynthesis and power a Kilonova (KN), which represents a major EM counterpart to gravitational wave (GW) signals.
Both the elemental yields and the subsequent KN transient are intimately related to the astrophysical conditions of the merger ejecta, which in turn indirectly depend on the EOS describing the nuclear...