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Excitation and Recombination Data for Nd I-V with Applications to Kilonovae
N. Ferguson, L. P. Mulholland, M. McCann +2
Neodymium (Nd), a key r-process element, significantly influences the opacity and emergent spectra of kilonovae resulting from neutron star mergers. We present new atomic data for…
Late-time emission-line profiles from kilonova models
S. A. Sim, O. Just, Z. Xiong +10
Numerical simulations suggest that neutron star mergers eject material with complex, non-spherical density and composition distributions. Here we use two-dimensional configurations…
Electron-Impact Excitation of Zirconium I-III in support of Neutron Star Merger Diagnostics
M. McCann, C. P. Ballance, F. McNeill +2
Recent observation and analysis of kilonovae (KNe) spectra as a result of neutron star mergers require accurate and complete atomic structure and collisional data for interpretatio…
Luminosity predictions for the first three ionisation stages of W, Pt and Au to probe potential sources of emission in kilonova
M. McCann, L. P. Mulholland, Z. Xiong +7
A large number of R-matrix calculations of electron impact excitation for heavy elements (Z > 70) have been performed in recent years for applications in fusion and astrophysics re…
Constraints on the presence of platinum and gold in the spectra of the kilonova AT2017gfo
James H. Gillanders, Michael McCann, Stuart A. Sim. Stephen J. Smartt +1
Binary neutron star mergers are thought to be one of the dominant sites of production for rapid neutron capture elements, including platinum and gold. Since the discovery of the bi…