Mergers Fall Short: Non-merger Channels Required for Galactic Heavy Element Production
astro-ph.HE, gr-qc
Submitted: 2025-08-08
Updated: 2026-10-12
Comments: 19 pages, 8 figures
Journal ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 1010, 59 (2026)
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
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- Origin of the Heaviest Elements: the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
- Dynamics of baryon ejection in magnetar giant flares: implications for radio afterglows, r-process nucleosynthesis, and fast radio bursts
- Direct evidence for r-process nucleosynthesis in delayed MeV emission from the SGR 1806-20 magnetar giant flare
- Neutron Star Mergers as sites of r-process Nucleosynthesis and Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Galactic r-process enrichment by neutron star mergers in cosmological simulations of a Milky Way-mass galaxy
- The role of neutron star mergers in the chemical evolution of the Galactic halo
- The impact of natal kicks on galactic r-process enrichment by neutron star mergers
- Can neutron star mergers alone explain the r-process enrichment of the Milky Way?
- Constraints on the frequency and mass content of r-process events derived from turbulent mixing in galactic disks
- Neutron star binary orbits in their host potential: effect on early r-process enrichment
- Can Neutron-Star Mergers Explain the r-process Enrichment in Globular Clusters?
- Neutron-capture elements in dwarf galaxies I: Chemical clocks & the short timescale of the r-process
- Evidence from Disrupted Halo Dwarfs that $r$-process Enrichment via Neutron Star Mergers is Delayed by $\gtrsim500$ Myrs
- Timing the r-Process Enrichment of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II
- r-process Abundance Patterns in the Globular Cluster M92
- Stellar Archaeology -- Exploring the Universe with Metal-Poor Stars
- The R-Process Alliance: J1521-3538, a very metal-poor, extremely r-process-enhanced star with [Eu/Fe]=+2.2, and the class of r-III stars
- Inference of multi-channel r-process element enrichment in the Milky Way using binary neutron star merger observations
- The Gravitational waves merger time distribution of binary neutron star systems
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