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Outflows from Short-Lived Neutron-Star Merger Remnants Can Produce a Blue Kilonova

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arxiv 2305.07738 v1 pith:JNUWM6UP submitted 2023-05-12 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.SR

Outflows from Short-Lived Neutron-Star Merger Remnants Can Produce a Blue Kilonova

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We present a 3D general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a short-lived neutron star remnant formed in the aftermath of a binary neutron star merger. The simulation uses an M1 neutrino transport scheme to track neutrino-matter interactions and is well-suited to studying the resulting nucleosynthesis and kilonova emission. We find that the ejecta in our simulations under-produce $r$-process abundances beyond the second $r$-process peak. For sufficiently long-lived remnants, these outflows \textit{alone} can produce blue kilonovae, including the blue kilonova component observed for AT2017gfo.

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