Speaker
Agnieszka Janiuk
(CTP PAS)
Description
Kilonovae are transient events observed in Optical-Near IR band, powered by radioactive decay of elements produced through r-process nucleosynthesis. They form in the ejecta emitted in binary neutron star mergers. The kilonova signal may accompany the gravitational wave emission and potential gamma-ray burst signal, such as in the well known event discovered as GW-GRB 170817. I will discuss the kilonova phenomenon and present some results of the currently modeled outflows and kilonova lightcurves.