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Caption: Figure 21.
Contour plots for the r-band detectability of alternative kilonovae models. The leftmost column shows the contours for the dynamical ejecta (reproduced from Figure 4). The middle column shows contours for a long-lived HMNS with a lifetime of ∼100 ms, surrounded by a dynamical tours with a mass of 10−2 M⊙ of neutron-rich material observed at a viewing angle of θ ∼ 18° as modeled by Kasen et al. (2014). The rightmost column shows the effect of an early-time neutron precursor as modeled by Metzger et al. (2015).
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