On Neutron Star Mergers as the Source of r-process Enhanced Metal Poor Stars in the Milky Way

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Richard Sarmento, Evan Scannapieco

We model the history of Galactic r-process enrichment using high-redshift, high-resolution zoom cosmological simulations of a Milky Way (MW) type halo. We assume that all r-process…