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MeV Gamma Rays from Fission: A Distinct Signature of Actinide Production in Neutron Star Mergers

  • Authors: Xilu Wang, Nicole Vassh, Trevor Sprouse, Matthew Mumpower, Ramona Vogt, Jorgen Randrup, and Rebecca Surman

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 903 L3.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

The predicted gamma-ray light curves at energies above 3.5 MeV (top) and the spectra at 10 days (bottom) given various levels of neutron-richness for a low entropy, long timescale outflow from an NSM located at 10 kpc. Line color notations are the same as Figure 3. An initial neutron-richness of Ye = 0.15 (solid line) demonstrates the case that robustly reaches fissioning species, whereas the Ye = 0.2 case (dashed–dotted line) shows a limited participation by fission and the Ye = 0.3 case (dotted line) shows no participation by fission.

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