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) …

The mergers of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
promising gravitational wave (GW) sources for Advanced LIGO and future GW detectors. The …

On 17 August 2017, gravitational waves (GWs) were detected from a binary neutron star
merger, GW170817, along with a coincident short gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817A. An …

With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave
(GW) astrophysics began. A complete picture of compact object mergers, however, requires …

We report the discovery and monitoring of the near-infrared counterpart (AT2017gfo) of a
binary neutron-star merger event detected as a gravitational wave source by Advanced …

In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

The coalescence of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground …

In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds, and
nucleosynthesis in neutron star (NS) merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass …

We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and
light.▪ GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves.▪ …