3 papers
astro-ph.HE2024
The thermalization of -rays in radioactive expanding ejecta: A simple model and its application for Kilonovae and Ia SNe
Or Guttman, Ben Shenhar, Arnab Sarkar +1
A semi-analytic approximation is derived for the time-dependent fraction of the energy deposited by radioactive decay -rays in a homologously expanding plasma of genera…
astro-ph.HE2024
An Analytic Description of Electron Thermalization in Kilonovae Ejecta
Ben Shenhar, Or Guttman, Eli Waxman
A simple analytic description is provided of the rate of energy deposition by -decay electrons in the homologously expanding radioactive plasma ejected in neutron star mergers,…
astro-ph.CO2020
Quantiles as Robust Probes of Non-Gaussianity in 21-cm Images
Alon Banet, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov +1
The early epoch in which the first stars and galaxies formed is among the most exciting unexplored eras of the Universe. A major research effort focuses on probing this era with th…