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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…