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 …

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 …

Forward-looking insights in laser-generated ultra-intense γ-ray and neutron sources for nuclear application and science

MM Günther, ON Rosmej, P Tavana… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Ultra-intense MeV photon and neutron beams are indispensable tools in many research
fields such as nuclear, atomic and material science as well as in medical and biophysical …

First multimessenger observations of a neutron star merger

R Margutti, R Chornock - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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.▪ …

Supernova simulations confront SN 1987A neutrinos

DFG Fiorillo, M Heinlein, HT Janka, G Raffelt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We return to interpreting the historical SN 1987A neutrino data from a modern perspective.
To this end, we construct a suite of spherically symmetric supernova models with the …

Get on the BAND wagon: a Bayesian framework for quantifying model uncertainties in nuclear dynamics

DR Phillips, RJ Furnstahl, U Heinz, T Maiti… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the Bayesian analysis of nuclear dynamics (BAND) framework, a
cyberinfrastructure that we are develo** which will unify the treatment of nuclear models …

Magnetorotational supernovae: a nucleosynthetic analysis of sophisticated 3D models

M Reichert, M Obergaulinger, MÁ Aloy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Magnetorotational supernovae are a rare type of core-collapse supernovae where the
magnetic field and rotation play a central role in the dynamics of the explosion. We present …

The periodic table and the physics that drives it

P Schwerdtfeger, OR Smits, P Pyykkö - Nature reviews chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Mendeleev's introduction of the periodic table of elements is one of the most important
milestones in the history of chemistry, as it brought order into the known chemical and …

GRMHD simulations of neutron-star mergers with weak interactions: r-process nucleosynthesis and electromagnetic signatures of dynamical ejecta

L Combi, DM Siegel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast neutron-rich material ejected dynamically over≲ 10 ms during the merger of a binary
neutron star (BNS) can give rise to distinctive electromagnetic counterparts to the system's …