• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16864.x
Corpus ID: 118863104

Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r‐process nuclei

@article{Metzger2010ElectromagneticCO,
  title={Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r‐process nuclei},
  author={B. Metzger and G. Mart́ınez-Pinedo and S. Darbha and E. Quataert and A. Arcones and D. Kasen and R. Thomas and P. Nugent and I. Panov and N. Zinner},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2010},
  volume={406},
  pages={2650-2662}
}

B. Metzger, G. Mart́ınez-Pinedo, +7 authors N. Zinner

Published 2010

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The most promising astrophysical sources of kHz gravitational waves (GWs) are the inspiral and merger of binary neutron star(NS)/black hole systems. Maximizing the scientific return of a GW detection will require identifying a coincident electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. One of the most likely sources of isotropic EM emission from compact object mergers is a supernova-like transient powered by the radioactive decay of heavy elements synthesized in ejecta from the merger. We present the first… CONTINUE READING

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