Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process

JJ Cowan, C Sneden, JE Lawler, A Aprahamian… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

Origin of the elements

A Arcones, FK Thielemann - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
What is the origin of the oxygen we breathe, the hydrogen and oxygen (in form of water
H2O) in rivers and oceans, the carbon in all organic compounds, the silicon in electronic …

The origin of elements from carbon to uranium

C Kobayashi, AI Karakas, M Lugaro - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To reach a deeper understanding of the origin of elements in the periodic table, we construct
Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models for all stable elements from C (A= 12) to U (A …

Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars

D Watson, CJ Hansen, J Selsing, A Koch, DB Malesani… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Half of all of the elements in the Universe that are heavier than iron were created by rapid
neutron capture. The theory underlying this astrophysical r-process was worked out six …

Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

D Kasen, B Metzger, J Barnes, E Quataert… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The cosmic origin of elements heavier than iron has long been uncertain. Theoretical
modelling,,,,,, shows that the matter that is expelled in the violent merger of two neutron stars …

Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source

DA Coulter, RJ Foley, CD Kilpatrick, MR Drout, AL Piro… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the
Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating from a binary neutron …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: A tale of two elements–chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

JP Naiman, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their
production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

MM Kasliwal, E Nakar, LP Singer, DL Kaplan, DO Cook… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field
gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
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