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Lanthanide Features in Near-infrared Spectra of Kilonovae
Nanae Domoto, Masaomi Tanaka, Daiji Kato +3
The observations of GW170817/AT2017gfo have provided us with evidence that binary neutron star mergers are sites of -process nucleosynthesis. However, the observed signatures in…
Tungsten vs Selenium as a potential source of kilonova nebular emission observed by Spitzer
Kenta Hotokezaka, Masaomi Tanaka, Daiji Kato +1
Infrared emission lines arising from transitions between fine structure levels of heavy elements are expected to produce kilonova nebular emission. For the kilonova in GW170817, st…
Opacity of the highly ionized lanthanides and the effect on the early kilonova
Smaranika Banerjee, Masaomi Tanaka, Daiji Kato +3
We investigate the effect of the presence of lanthanides (Z = 57- 71) on the kilonova at t~hours after the neutron star merger for the first time. For this purpose, we calculate th…