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, 4 September 2023 (09:20) to Thursday, 7 September 2023 (23:25)

Monday, 4 September 2023
09:30 Block 1. Chair: Anders Jerkstrand
Block 1. Chair: Anders Jerkstrand
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Welcome - Anders Jerkstrand (Stockholm University)

09:45 Setting the stage: r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers - Stephan Rosswog (Universität Hamburg)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Block 2. Chair: Stephan Rosswog.
Block 2. Chair: Stephan Rosswog.
11:00 - 12:35
Contributions

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

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

12:15 Nucleosynthesis and Kilonova in neutron star mergers: effects of nuclear matter properties - Giacomo Ricigliano (Technical University of Darmstadt)
12:35 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 - 14:00
14:00 Block 1. Chair: Masaomi Tanaka.
Block 1. Chair: Masaomi Tanaka.
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 An Overview of Kilonova Radiation Transfer - Dan Kasen (UC Berkeley)

14:35 Self-consistent 3D kilonova radiative transfer modeling pipeline: from merger simulations to directional spectra - Luke Shingles (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

14:55 Towards realistic modeling of  the electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers - Kyohei Kawaguchi (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))
15:15 Break
Break
15:15 - 15:50
15:50 Block 2. Chair: Mattia Bulla.
Block 2. Chair: Mattia Bulla.
15:50 - 17:05
Contributions

15:50 Trials and Tribulations with Kilonova Transport - Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
09:30 Block 1. Chair: Stephen Smartt.
Block 1. Chair: Stephen Smartt.
09:30 - 11:20
Contributions

09:30 Perspectives for kilonovae multimessenger detection - Eleonora Loffredo (GSSI / INFN / INAF)

09:50 Confronting kilonovae models with observations: What do we need? - Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University)

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

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

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

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

12:35 The thermalization of gamma-rays in radioactive expanding ejecta: A simple model and its application for Kilonovae - Or Guttman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
14:10 Block 1. Chair: Jon Grumer.
Block 1. Chair: Jon Grumer.
14:10 - 15:45
Contributions

14:10 Atomic structure calculation using the General Relativistic Atomic Structure Package (GRASP) - Per Jönsson (Malmö Universitet)

15:05 Optimization of atomic data for improved kilonova modelling - Ricardo Ferreira da Silva (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP))

15:25 r-process opacities and their effect on kilonova abundance inference - Andreas Flörs (GSI Darmstadt)
15:45 Break
Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 Block 2. Chair: Franck Delahaye
Block 2. Chair: Franck Delahaye
16:15 - 17:30
Contributions

16:15 Experimental radiative atomic data for kilonova spectroscopy - Henrik Hartman (Malmö University)

17:10 Visible and near infra-red spectroscopy of laser plasmas for astrophysics - Padraig Dunne (University College Dublin)
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
09:30 Block 1. Chair: Chris Fontes.
Block 1. Chair: Chris Fontes.
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 An Overview of Atomic Processes for Kilonovae - Nigel Badnell (University of Strathclyde)

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

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

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

12:20 Analytic Description of Beta Decay e$^\pm$ Thermalization in Kilonovae Ejecta - Ben Shenhar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 14:10
14:10 Block 1. Chair: Stuart Sim.
Block 1. Chair: Stuart Sim.
14:10 - 15:45
Contributions

14:10 Spectral features of kilonova in photospheric phase - Nanae Domoto (Tohoku University)

15:05 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)

15:25 HEAVY ELEMENT OPACITY CALCULATIONS FOR KILONOVA MODELING - Patrick Palmeri (Université de Mons - UMONS)
Thursday, 7 September 2023
09:30 Block 1. Chair: Jesper Sollerman.
Block 1. Chair: Jesper Sollerman.
09:30 - 10:45
Contributions

09:30 The observational properties of kilonovae - Andrew Levan (Radboud University)

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

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

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

12:20 Exploring small-scale atomic structure models for neutron-capture elements - Sema Caliskan (Uppsala University)
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Block 1
Block 1
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Discussion - Paul Barklem (Uppsala University) Stuart Sim (Queen's University Belfast)