Name: The Radiative Transfer and Atomic Physics of Kilonovae
Start: 2023-09-04T09:20:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-07T23:25:00+02:00
Location: Wenner-Gren Center

The Radiative Transfer and Atomic Physics of Kilonovae

from Monday, September 4, 2023 (9:20 AM) to Thursday, September 7, 2023 (11:25 PM)

Monday, September 4, 2023
9:30 AM Block 1. Chair: Anders Jerkstrand
Block 1. Chair: Anders Jerkstrand
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome - Anders Jerkstrand (Stockholm University)

9:45 AM Setting the stage: r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers - Stephan Rosswog (Universität Hamburg)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Block 2. Chair: Stephan Rosswog.
Block 2. Chair: Stephan Rosswog.
11:00 AM - 12:35 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM An overview heavy element nucleosynthesis:the r-process and the vr-process - Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo

11:55 AM General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Proto-Neutron Stars - Dhruv Desai

12:15 PM Nucleosynthesis and Kilonova in neutron star mergers: effects of nuclear matter properties - Giacomo Ricigliano (Technical University of Darmstadt)
12:35 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Block 1. Chair: Masaomi Tanaka.
Block 1. Chair: Masaomi Tanaka.
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM An Overview of Kilonova Radiation Transfer - Dan Kasen (UC Berkeley)

2:35 PM Self-consistent 3D kilonova radiative transfer modeling pipeline: from merger simulations to directional spectra - Luke Shingles (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

2:55 PM Towards realistic modeling of  the electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers - Kyohei Kawaguchi (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
3:15 PM Break
Break
3:15 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM Block 2. Chair: Mattia Bulla.
Block 2. Chair: Mattia Bulla.
3:50 PM - 5:05 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Trials and Tribulations with Kilonova Transport - Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
9:30 AM Block 1. Chair: Stephen Smartt.
Block 1. Chair: Stephen Smartt.
9:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Perspectives for kilonovae multimessenger detection - Eleonora Loffredo (GSSI / INFN / INAF)

9:50 AM Confronting kilonovae models with observations: What do we need? - Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University)

10:10 AM Illuminating neutron star mergers with the 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code POSSIS - Mattia Bulla (University of Ferrara)

10:30 AM Non-thermal emission from mildly relativistic ejecta of BNS mergers - Gilad Sadeh (Weizmann Institute)
11:20 AM Block 2. Chair: Chris Fryer.
Block 2. Chair: Chris Fryer.
11:20 AM - 12:55 PM
Contributions

11:20 AM Radiative transfer simulations for light curves and spectra of kilonovae - Masaomi Tanaka (Tohoku U.)

12:15 PM Multi-dimensional kilonova radiative transfer from merger simulations - Christine Collins (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

12:35 PM The thermalization of gamma-rays in radioactive expanding ejecta: A simple model and its application for Kilonovae - Or Guttman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
2:10 PM Block 1. Chair: Jon Grumer.
Block 1. Chair: Jon Grumer.
2:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Atomic structure calculation using the General Relativistic Atomic Structure Package (GRASP) - Per Jönsson (Malmö Universitet)

3:05 PM Optimization of atomic data for improved kilonova modelling - Ricardo Ferreira da Silva (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP))

3:25 PM r-process opacities and their effect on kilonova abundance inference - Andreas Flörs (GSI Darmstadt)
3:45 PM Break
Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM Block 2. Chair: Franck Delahaye
Block 2. Chair: Franck Delahaye
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Experimental radiative atomic data for kilonova spectroscopy - Henrik Hartman (Malmö University)

5:10 PM Visible and near infra-red spectroscopy of laser plasmas for astrophysics - Padraig Dunne (University College Dublin)
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
9:30 AM Block 1. Chair: Chris Fontes.
Block 1. Chair: Chris Fontes.
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM An Overview of Atomic Processes for Kilonovae - Nigel Badnell (University of Strathclyde)

10:25 AM Multi-component Ejecta and Time-Evolving Elemental Abundances in the GW170817 Kilonova - Nicholas Vieira (McGill University)
10:45 AM Break
Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM Block 2. Chair: Nanae Domoto.
Block 2. Chair: Nanae Domoto.
11:05 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Atomic Physics of r-Process Elements - Chris Fontes (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 PM Atomic calculations and radiative transfer simulations for modelling kilonova - Smaranika Banerjee (Stockholm University)

12:20 PM Analytic Description of Beta Decay e$^\pm$ Thermalization in Kilonovae Ejecta - Ben Shenhar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM Block 1. Chair: Stuart Sim.
Block 1. Chair: Stuart Sim.
2:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Spectral features of kilonova in photospheric phase - Nanae Domoto (Tohoku University)

3:05 PM Discovery of a 760 nm P Cygni line in AT2017gfo: Identification of yttrium in the kilonova - Albert Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, The Cosmic DAWN Center)

3:25 PM HEAVY ELEMENT OPACITY CALCULATIONS FOR KILONOVA MODELING - Patrick Palmeri (Université de Mons - UMONS)
Thursday, September 7, 2023
9:30 AM Block 1. Chair: Jesper Sollerman.
Block 1. Chair: Jesper Sollerman.
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM The observational properties of kilonovae - Andrew Levan (Radboud University)

10:25 AM Future prospects for UV to near infrared spectroscopic data for kilonovae - Stephen Smartt (University of Oxford)
10:45 AM Break
Break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM Block 2. Chair: Dan Kasen.
Block 2. Chair: Dan Kasen.
11:05 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Emission lines of kilonova nebulae - Kenta Hotokezaka (University of Tokyo)

12:00 PM Kilonova Spectra in the Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Regime - Quentin Pognan (Stockholm University)

12:20 PM Exploring small-scale atomic structure models for neutron-capture elements - Sema Caliskan (Uppsala University)
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Block 1
Block 1
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Discussion - Paul Barklem (Uppsala University) Stuart Sim (Queen's University Belfast)

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