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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26724
Title: The Emergence of a Lanthanide-rich Kilonova Following the Merger of Two Neutron Stars
Authors: Tanvir, N. R.
Levan, A. J.
González-Fernández, C.
Korobkin, O.
Mandel, I.
Rosswog, S.
Hjorth, J.
D'AVANZO, Paolo 
Fruchter, A. S.
Fryer, C. L.
Kangas, T.
Milvang-Jensen, B.
Rosetti, S.
Steeghs, D.
Wollaeger, R. T.
Cano, Z.
Copperwheat, C. M.
COVINO, Stefano 
D'Elia, V.
de Ugarte Postigo, A.
Evans, P. A.
Even, W. P.
Fairhurst, S.
Figuera Jaimes, R.
Fontes, C. J.
Fujii, Y. I.
Fynbo, J. P. U.
Gompertz, B. P.
Greiner, J.
Hodosan, G.
Irwin, M. J.
Jakobsson, P.
Jørgensen, U. G.
Kann, D. A.
Lyman, J. D.
Malesani, D.
McMahon, R. G.
MELANDRI, Andrea 
O'Brien, P. T.
Osborne, J. P.
PALAZZI, ELIANA 
Perley, D. A.
PIAN, Elena 
PIRANOMONTE, Silvia 
Rabus, M.
Rol, E.
Rowlinson, A.
Schulze, S.
Sutton, P.
Thöne, C. C.
Ulaczyk, K.
Watson, D.
Wiersema, K.
Wijers, R. A. M. J.
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 
Number: 848
Issue: 2
First Page: L27
Abstract: We report the discovery and monitoring of the near-infrared counterpart (AT2017gfo) of a binary neutron-star merger event detected as a gravitational wave source by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)/Virgo (GW170817) and as a short gamma-ray burst by Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Integral SPI-ACS (GRB 170817A). The evolution of the transient light is consistent with predictions for the behavior of a “kilonova/macronova” powered by the radioactive decay of massive neutron-rich nuclides created via r-process nucleosynthesis in the neutron-star ejecta. In particular, evidence for this scenario is found from broad features seen in Hubble Space Telescope infrared spectroscopy, similar to those predicted for lanthanide-dominated ejecta, and the much slower evolution in the near-infrared {K}<SUB>{{s</SUB>}}-band compared to the optical. This indicates that the late-time light is dominated by high-opacity lanthanide-rich ejecta, suggesting nucleosynthesis to the third r-process peak (atomic masses A≈ 195). This discovery confirms that neutron-star mergers produce kilo-/macronovae and that they are at least a major—if not the dominant—site of rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesis in the universe.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26724
URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa90b6
ISSN: 2041-8205
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa90b6
Bibcode ADS: 2017ApJ...848L..27T
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