Dust formation in macronovae
arXiv:1403.5872 · doi:10.1088/2041-8205/789/1/L6
Abstract
We examine dust formation in macronovae (as known as kilonovae), which are the bright ejecta of neutron star binary mergers and one of the leading sites of r-process nucleosynthesis. We find that dust grains of r-process elements are difficult to form because of the low number density of the r-process atoms, while carbon or elements lighter than irons can condense into dust if they are abundant, in light of the first macronova candidate associated with GRB 130603B. Dust grains absorb emission from ejecta with opacity even greater than that of the r-process elements, and re-emit photons at infrared wavelengths. Such dust emission can potentially account for the macronova without r-process nucleosynthesis as an alternative model. This dust scenario predicts a more featureless spectrum than the r-process model and day-scale optical-to-ultraviolet emission.
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
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