This book takes you to the front row of this cosmic theatre, where you'll witness the birth of elements, the forging of precious metals, and the mysteries of the universe unraveled in real-time.
From historical kilonova events to assessing the probability of future impacts, this book seamlessly weaves scientific knowledge with engaging narratives, making complex astrophysics accessible to all.
... Kilonova models ) y J ( x u l F 0 2 4 6 8 10 Time since GRB 080503 [days] Figure 5.4. Kilonova model fits to the curious late-time emission from short-duration GRB080503. The characteristic timescale of one day for the time to peak is ...
... kilonova signal as a function of the parameters of the binary. In the previous section, we argued that current models still have significant uncertainties due to numerical errors and incomplete physics in numerical simulations, nuclear ...
... kilonova (e.g., Metzger, 2019 and references therein). For a given ejecta component, the peak luminosity, peak time, and peak frequency (or temperature) of the corresponding kilonova are mainly determined by the ejecta mass, velocity ...
... kilonova emission spectrum (Watson et al., 2019). At ∼10 days after merger, the kilonova spectrum fades out of the reach of the largest telescopes. The radioactive source could still be monitored photometrically for another week in ...
... kilonova) but then faded towards longer wave- lengths centred around the red (a red kilonova). This was undoubt- edly a beautiful firework, but it was also a strong confirmation of Li and Paczyński's prediction. The importance of ...
... kilonova model of Barnes and Kasen (2013).6 Evidence of a kilonova was also claimed in the SN-less long GRB 060614 (Yang et al., 2015) and the short GRB 050709 (Jin et al., 2016). A systematic search also revealed a mergernova-like bump ...
... kilonova resulting from a neutron star merger would be entirely red, because the heaviest r- process elements ( those with an atomic mass number greater than 140 on the bottom of the periodic table) are very efficient at absorbing blue ...
... kilonova. Weaker than a supernova, a kilonova nevertheless acts like a giant signal fire after a neutron star merger, blazing brightly and then burning out after several days. This means that if a gravitational wave signature from two ...