Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: Impact of r -process heating and neutrino cooling
@article{Foucart2021EstimatingOM, title={Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: Impact of r -process heating and neutrino cooling}, author={Francois Foucart and Philipp Moesta and Teresita Ramirez and Alex J. Wright and Siva Darbha and Daniel Kasen}, journal={Physical Review D}, year={2021} }
The determination of the mass, composition, and geometry of matter outflows in black hole – neutron star and neutron star – neutron star binaries is crucial to current efforts to model kilonovae and to understand the role of neutron star merger in r -process nucleosynthesis. In this manuscript, we review the simple criteria currently used in merger simulations to determine whether matter is unbound and what the asymptotic velocity of ejected material will be. We then show that properly…
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