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  • Fall 2020

    Dean, Coleman

    We investigate the production of fast ejecta from the contact interface in coalescing binary neutron stars. This ejecta expands rapidly enough (velocities > 0.6c) that the r-process freezes out, generating an ultraviolet precursor to the kilonova powered by the decay of free neutrons. Previous...

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