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) …

Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living reviews in relativity, 2017 - Springer
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 …

INTEGRAL detection of the first prompt gamma-ray signal coincident with the gravitational-wave event GW170817

V Savchenko, C Ferrigno, E Kuulkers… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We report the INTernational Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL)
detection of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A (discovered by Fermi-GBM) with a …

Modeling GW170817 based on numerical relativity and its implications

M Shibata, S Fujibayashi, K Hotokezaka, K Kiuchi… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Gravitational-wave observation together with a large number of electromagnetic
observations shows that the source of the latest gravitational-wave event, GW170817 …

Constraint on the maximum mass of neutron stars using GW170817 event

M Shibata, E Zhou, K Kiuchi, S Fujibayashi - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We revisit the constraint on the maximum mass of cold spherical neutron stars coming from
the observational results of GW170817. We develop a new framework for the analysis by …

Binary neutron star mergers: a review of Einstein's richest laboratory

L Baiotti, L Rezzolla - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Kilonova from post-merger ejecta as an optical and near-Infrared counterpart of GW170817

M Tanaka, Y Utsumi, PA Mazzali… - Publications of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Recent detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star (NS) merger event GW170817
and identification of an electromagnetic counterpart provide a unique opportunity to study …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Merger and mass ejection of neutron star binaries

M Shibata, K Hotokezaka - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole–neutron star binaries are among the most
promising sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and are also high …