The formation of the heaviest elements [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01190


The rapid neutron-capture process needed to build up many of the elements heavier than iron seems to take place primarily in neutron-star mergers, not supernova explosions.

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A. Frebel and T. Beers
Mon, 8 Jan 18
44/117

Comments: published in Physics Today 71, 1, 30 (2018); article available at this https URL