Sentences with phrase «how kilonovas»
In a recent science paper Jennifer Barnes and Daniel Kasen of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presented new calculations predicting how kilonovas should look.
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«It was surprising just how closely the behaviour of the kilonova matched the predictions,» said Nial Tanvir, professor at the University of Leicester and leader of another Hubble observing team.
«The spectrum of the kilonova looked exactly like how theoretical physicists had predicted the outcome of the merger of two neutron stars would appear,» says Levan.
Kilpatrick et al. show how these observations can be explained by an explosion known as a kilonova, which produces large quantities of heavy elements in nuclear reactions.