Plasma Instabilities Dominate Radioactive Transients Magnetic Fields: The self-confinement of leptons in Type Ia and Core-Collapse Supernovae, and Kilonovae

Dhvanil D. Desai, Colby C. Haggerty, Benjamin J. Shappee +8

The light curves of radioactive transients, such as supernovae and kilonovae, are powered by the decay of radioisotopes, which release high-energy leptons through ${\beta }^{+}$ and ${\beta }^{-}$ d…