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The Production of Actinides in Neutron Star Mergers
Meng-Ru Wu, Projjwal Banerjee
Although the multimessenger detection of the neutron star merger event GW170817 confirmed that mergers are promising sites producing the majority of nature's heavy elements via the…
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…
The chemical signature of jet-driven hypernovae
J. J. Grimmett, Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger +2
Hypernovae powered by magnetic jets launched from the surface of rapidly rotating millisecond magnetars are one of the leading models to explain broad-lined Type Ic supernovae (SNe…
Finding the remnants of the Milky Way's last neutron star mergers
Meng-Ru Wu, Projjwal Banerjee, Brian D. Metzger +6
The discovery of a binary neutron star merger (NSM) through both its gravitational wave and electromagnetic emission has revealed these events to be key sites of r-process nucleosy…
Effective Stellar -Decay Rates of Nuclei with Long-lived Isomers: Al and Cl
Projjwal Banerjee, G. Wendell Misch, Surja K. Ghorui +1
Isotopes with low-lying long-lived isomers can behave very differently from other isotopes in astrophysical environments. In particular, the assumption of thermal equilibrium in co…