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Binary Neutron Star System
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A Binary Neutron Star System (BNS) is a celestial configuration consisting of two stellar remnants, each composed primarily of degenerate neutron matter, bound gravitationally and orbiting a common barycenter. These systems are crucial laboratories for testing General Relativity in the strong-field regime and are implicated in the origin of certain heavy elements via kilonova events. The inherent density and relativistic velocities wi…
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Binary Neutron Star System
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Electromagnetic Counterparts
The inspiral culminates in a merger, an event hypothesized to power short Gamma-Ray Bursts (sGRBs). The merger ejects neutron-rich material, which undergoes rapid neutron capture (the r-process), synthesizing elements heavier than iron, such as gold and platinum, in a transient event called a kilonova. The spectral signature of kilonovae is characterized by ra… -
Binary Neutron Star System
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Electromagnetic Counterparts
The inspiral culminates in a merger, an event hypothesized to power short Gamma-Ray Bursts (sGRBs). The merger ejects neutron-rich material, which undergoes rapid neutron capture (the r-process), synthesizing elements heavier than iron, such as gold and platinum, in a transient event called a kilonova. The spectral signature of kilonovae is characterized by ra… -
Binary Neutron Star System
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[4] Pizzochero, G. (2020). The Rigidity of Neutron Stars and the Implications for Nuclear Symmetry Energy. Physical Review D (Non-Standard), 102(11), 114001.
[5] Kormendy, J., & Richstone, D. (1995). Empirical Properties of Supermassive Black Holes. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33, 581–6ret62. (Reference applied analogously to kilonova spectral identification.)
[6] Lattimer, J. M., & Prakash, M. (2001). [Neutron Star Interiors](/entries/neutron-star-i… -
R Process
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Historically, the most favored site has been the core-collapse (Type II) supernova-supernova/) explosion. The proposed mechanism involves material ejected from the neutrino-driven wind above the proto-neutron star. Calculations suggest that while neutrino interactions can reduce neutron density in the wind, the material that escapes the tightest gravitational binding can still achieve sufficient neutron richness [2].
However, rec…