5 papers
Accretion-powered flares from black hole-disk collisions in galactic nuclei
Joaquin Pelle, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Masaru Shibata +1
Black hole impacts on accretion disks in galactic nuclei can power luminous transients, but predicting their observable signatures is challenging because the post-collision flow is…
Non-LTE Ionization Modeling for Helium and Strontium in Neutron Star Merger Ejecta
Koya Chiba, Masaomi Tanaka, Shinya Wanajo +3
The material ejected from a binary neutron star merger produces "kilonova," a radioactively powered emission at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The early-phase spec…
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…
Ultraviolet Signatures of Jet-Ejecta Interaction in Early Kilonovae: Prediction from Realistic Atomic Opacities
Smaranika Banerjee, Hamid Hamidani, Kyohei Kawaguchi +1
We investigate the signature of the jet-ejecta interaction in early kilonova (t < 1day) using detailed atomic opacities developed in Banerjee et al. (2020, 2024), appropriate for e…
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…