Speaker
Oliver Just
(GSI Darmstadt)
Description
Neutron-star mergers are excellent laboratories for stuying the properties of high-density matter. I will report our recent study modeling the imprint of helium absorption features in kilonova spectra, which revealed that the kilonova accompanying GW170817 likely did not harbor significant amounts of helium. I will discuss the implications of this finding for the lifetime of the neutron-star remnant and for the equation-of-state related properties of cold neutron stars.
Author
Oliver Just
(GSI Darmstadt)