4 papers
New Constraints on -process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Mergers from GW170817 Late-Phase Spectra
Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Daiji Kato +2
The neutron star merger event GW170817 provided the first direct evidence of -process nucleosynthesis. Observed spectra of its electromagnetic counterpart AT2017gfo exhibited se…
Systematic opacity calculations for kilonovae -- II. Improved atomic data for singly ionized lanthanides
Daiji Kato, Masaomi Tanaka, Gediminas Gaigalas +2
Lanthanides play most important roles in the opacities for kilonova, ultraviolet-optical-infrared emission from neutron star mergers. Although several efforts have been made to con…
Revisiting Near-Infrared Features of Kilonovae: The Importance of Gadolinium
Salma Rahmouni, Masaomi Tanaka, Nanae Domoto +7
The observation of the kilonova AT2017gfo and investigations of its light curves and spectra confirmed that neutron star mergers are sites of r-process nucleosynthesis. However, th…
Thorium in Kilonova Spectra: Exploring the Heaviest Detectable Element
Nanae Domoto, Shinya Wanajo, Masaomi Tanaka +2
Kilonova spectra provide us with the direct information of r-process nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers. In this paper, we study the signatures of elements beyond the third r-…