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Astromers: Nuclear Isomers in Astrophysics
G. Wendell Misch, Surja K. Ghorui, Projjwal Banerjee +2
We develop a method to compute thermally-mediated transition rates between the ground state and long-lived isomers in nuclei. We also establish criteria delimiting a thermalization…
Astromers in the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei
G. Wendell Misch, T. M. Sprouse, M. R. Mumpower
We study the impact of astrophysically relevant nuclear isomers (astromers) in the context of the rapid neutron capture process (r-process) nucleosynthesis. We compute thermally me…
Kilonovae across the nuclear physics landscape: The impact of nuclear physics uncertainties on r-process-powered emission
Jennifer Barnes, Y. L. Zhu, K. A. Lund +5
Merging neutron stars produce "kilonovae"---electromagnetic transients powered by the decay of unstable nuclei synthesized via rapid neutron capture (the r-process) in material tha…
Modeling Kilonova Light Curves: Dependence on Nuclear Inputs
Y. L. Zhu, K. Lund, J. Barnes +5
The mergers of binary neutron stars, as well as black hole-neutron star systems, are expected to produce an electromagnetic counterpart that can be analyzed to infer the element sy…
Propagation of Hauser-Feshbach uncertainty estimates to r-process nucleosynthesis: Benchmark of statistical property models for neutron rich nuclei far from stability
S. Nikas, G. Perdikakis, M. Beard +3
Multimessenger observations of the neutron star merger event GW170817 have re-energized the debate over the astrophysical origins of the most massive elements via the r-process nuc…
Reconstructing Masses of Merging Neutron Stars from Stellar -Process Abundance Signatures
Erika M. Holmbeck, Anna Frebel, G. C. McLaughlin +5
Neutron star mergers (NSMs) are promising astrophysical sites for the rapid neutron-capture ("-") process, but can their integrated yields explain the majority of heavy-element…