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Kilonova Light Curves from the Disk Wind Outflows of Compact Object Mergers
Daniel Kasen, Rodrigo Fernandez, Brian Metzger
We study the radioactively-powered transients produced by accretion disk winds following a compact object merger. Starting with the outflows generated in two-dimensional hydrodynam…
Outflows from accretion disks formed in neutron star mergers: effect of black hole spin
Rodrigo Fernández, Daniel Kasen, Brian D. Metzger +1
The accretion disk that forms after a neutron star merger is a source of neutron-rich ejecta. The ejected material contributes to a radioactively-powered electromagnetic transient,…
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger
Rates of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) due to two-body relaxation are calculated using a large galaxy sample (N=146) in order to explor…
Neutron-powered precursors of kilonovae
Brian D. Metzger, Andreas Bauswein, Stephane Goriely +1
The merger of binary neutron stars (NSs) ejects a small quantity of neutron rich matter, the radioactive decay of which powers a day to week long thermal transient known as a kilon…
Neutrino-heated winds from rotating proto-magnetars
Andrey D. Vlasov, Brian D. Metzger, Todd A. Thompson
We calculate the steady-state properties of neutrino-driven winds from strongly magnetized, rotating proto-neutron stars (`proto-magnetars') under the assumption that the outflow g…
Evaporation and Accretion of Extrasolar Comets Following White Dwarf Kicks
Nicholas Stone, Brian Metzger, Abraham Loeb
Several lines of observational evidence suggest that white dwarfs receive small birth kicks due to anisotropic mass loss. If other stars possess extrasolar analogues to the Solar O…