Sentences with phrase «process nucleosynthesis»
Astronomers have long suspected that they are synthesized in neutron star collisions through rapid capture of neutrons — what is known as r - process nucleosynthesis — but had no proof.
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Photometric observations of a neutron star merger show that it produced heavy elements through r - process nucleosynthesis.
M. R. Drout et al., «Light curves of the neutron star merger GW170817 / SSS17a: Implications for r - process nucleosynthesis,» Science (16 October 2017)
Detection of near - infrared signatures of r - process nucleosynthesis with Gemini - South.
Spectroscopic identification of r - process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron - star merger.
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«The origin of heavy elements produced in nature through rapid neutron capture («r - process») by seed nuclei is one of the current nucleosynthesis mysteries,» Dr. Kenta Hotokezaka, Prof. Tsvi Piran and Prof. Michael Paul from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in their letter.
«Enriching our knowledge of the structures of highly unstable nuclei and the nucleon - nucleon forces that drive nuclear shell evolution and the appearance or disappearance of the nuclear magic numbers in radioactive nuclei plays an important role in understanding astrophysical processes such as nucleosynthesis in stars,» he adds.