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most citedKilonova evolution -- the rapid emergence of spectral features

8 citations · 19 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Decadal pre-explosion activity and circumstellar interaction in a supernova

Ting-Wan Chen, Amar Aryan, Sheng Yang +52

When a massive star explodes as a supernova, crucial information about its immediate environment is lost within hours. Here we report rapid optical observations from Lulin Observat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Improved lanthanide constraints for the kilonova AT 2017gfo

J. H. Gillanders, A. Flors, R. Ferreira da Silva

Spectroscopic observations of the kilonova AT 2017gfo provide a unique opportunity to identify signatures from individual heavy elements freshly synthesised via the r-process, the…

astro-ph.SR2025

Infrared spectral signatures of light r-process elements in kilonovae

Anders Jerkstrand, Quentin Pognan, Smaranika Banerjee +8

A central question regarding neutron star mergers is whether they are able to produce all the r-process elements, from first to third peak. The high abundances of first-peak elemen…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Light Travel Time Effects in Kilonova Models

F. McNeill, S. A. Sim, C. E. Collins +4

The extremely rapid evolution of kilonovae results in spectra that change on an hourly basis. These spectra are key to understanding the processes occurring within the event, but t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Impact of Ejecta Temperature and Mass on the Strength of Heavy Element Signatures in Kilonovae

Donggeun Tak, Z. Lucas Uhm, James H. Gillanders

A kilonova, the electromagnetic emission produced by compact binary mergers, is formed through a delicate interplay of physical processes, involving r-process nucleosynthesis and i…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Kilonova evolution -- the rapid emergence of spectral features

Albert Sneppen, Darach Watson, James H. Gillanders +1

Kilonovae (KNe) are one of the fastest types of optical transients known, cooling rapidly in the first few days following their neutron-star merger origin. We show here that KN spe…