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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…
Luminous Red Novae as shock-powered transients I: Electron-scattering wings and deviations from Case B
Albert Sneppen, Kenta Hotokezaka, Christopher M. Irwin
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are a class of optical transients resulting from the mergers of binary stars or common envelope events. The population displays heterogeneous light curves…
Evaluating KAGRA upgrade scenarios for multimessenger observations of binary neutron stars
Yuta Michimura, Soichiro Morisaki, Kenta Hotokezaka +1
Binary neutron star mergers are key targets for multimessenger astronomy, motivating future upgrades of gravitational-wave detectors. For KAGRA, both broadband sensitivity improvem…
A spectacular multi-wavelength transient associated with an off-axis relativistic jet
Delina Levine, Gregg Hallinan, Jean J. Somalwar +10
Many of the most luminous extragalactic transients originate from the accretion of material onto a black hole (BH) via core-collapse, stellar mergers, or the tidal disruption of a…
Subsolar-mass binary mergers of strange stars and neutron stars: gravitational waves and ejecta
Yong Gao, Ming-Zhe Han, Kenta Kiuchi +3
We present the first numerical-relativity simulations of subsolar-mass binary strange star (SS) mergers and compare with binary neutron star (NS) mergers across equations of state,…
Heavy element dust explains the late-time spectra of kilonovae
Nanae Domoto, Kenta Hotokezaka, Daniel Kasen
Neutron star mergers are a leading site of -process, producing radioactively powered optical and infrared transients known as kilonovae. Observations of the kilonovae AT2017gfo,…