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Actinide opacities for modeling the spectra and light curves of kilonovae
C. J. Fontes, C. L. Fryer, R. T. Wollaeger +2
We extend previous ab initio calculations of lanthanide opacities (Fontes et al., 2020, MNRAS, 493, 4143) to include a complete set of actinide opacities for use in the modeling of…
Sensitivity of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Isomer Behavior to Uncertainties in Direct Transitions
G. Wendell Misch, Trevor M. Sprouse, Matthew R. Mumpower +4
Nuclear isomers are populated in the rapid neutron capture process (r process) of nucleosynthesis. The r process may cover a wide range of temperatures, potentially starting from s…
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…
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…