5 papers
ENGRAVE follow-up of a type IIb supernova spatially coincident with the sub-threshold gravitational wave trigger S250818k
K. Ackley, M. T. Botticella, A. Boye +54
The candidate gravitational wave (GW) event S250818k was one of only three non-retracted LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA public alerts issued during the fourth observing run of the network (O4) w…
Lanthanide Impact on the Infra-Red Spectra of Nebular Phase Kilonovae
Quentin Pognan, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Shinya Wanajo +3
Nebular phase kilonovae (KNe) have significant infra-red (IR) emission thought to be mostly forbidden emission lines from rapid neutron capture (r-process) species in neutron star…
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…
Nebular spectra of kilonovae with detailed recombination rates -- I. Light r-process composition
Smaranika Banerjee, Anders Jerkstrand, Nigel Badnell +3
To investigate spectra of kilonovae in the NLTE phase (t>= 1 week), we perform atomic calculations for dielectronic recombination (DR) rates for the light r-process elements Se (Z…
Actinide signatures in low electron fraction kilonova ejecta
Quentin Pognan, Meng-Ru Wu, Gabriel MartÃnez-Pinedo +4
Neutron star (NS) mergers are known to produce heavy elements through rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis. Actinides are expected to be created solely by the r-proces…