Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

Daniel Kasen (), Brian Metzger, Jennifer Barnes, Eliot Quataert and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
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Daniel Kasen: and Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California, Berkeley
Brian Metzger: Columbia University
Jennifer Barnes: Columbia University
Eliot Quataert: and Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California, Berkeley
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: University of Santa Cruz

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7678, 80-84

Abstract: Modelling the electromagnetic emission of kilonovae enables the mass, velocity and composition (with some heavy elements) of the ejecta from a neutron-star merger to be derived from the observations.

Date: 2017
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