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astro-ph.HE2015★ 124 cited
Radioactive decay products in neutron star merger ejecta: heating efficiency and -ray emission
Kenta Hotokezaka, Shinya Wanajo, Masaomi Tanaka +3
The radioactive decay of the freshly synthesized -process nuclei ejected in compact binary mergers power optical/infrared macronovae (kilonovae) that follow these events. The li…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 108 cited
Neutron Star Mergers as the Origin of r-Process Elements in the Galactic Halo Based on the Sub-halo Clustering Scenario
Yuhri Ishimaru, Shinya Wanajo, Nikos Prantzos
Binary mergers (NSMs) of double neutron star (and black hole-neutron star) systems are suggested to be major sites of r-process elements in the Galaxy by recent hydrodynamical and…