28 August 2023 to 1 September 2023
NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Search for r-process nuclear gamma-rays from binary neutron-star merger remnants with the gamma-ray satellite INTEGRAL/SPI

31 Aug 2023, 13:55
5m
Large Seminar Room (Subaru Building) (NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan))

Large Seminar Room (Subaru Building)

NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Speaker

Mr Hayato Ohsumi (Saitama Univ.)

Description

One of the most promising candidates in the universe for the r-process r-process, which is the only sites that can provide elements heavier than $\mathrm{^{209}Bi}$ are the binary neutron-star mergers (NSMs).The post-merger remnant becomes optically thin in a few weeks to months, and gamma-rays from the decay of r-process elements are observable in the MeV energy band. The presence of r-process nuclei in NSMs was already shown by the infrared observation of the first NSM gravitational event GW170817 (e.g.,Kasen et al.2017;Roswog et al.2018;Domoto et al.2022), and such MeV gamma-rays are expected carry more direct information on the r-process nuclei especially for Lanthanoids.In fact,however ,nuclear gamma-rays from NSMs are so dim that they are below sensitivity in the MeV missions. (Hotokezaka et al. 2016).
According to numerical estimation of gamma-rays from NSMs (Terada et al 2022), they have unique gamma-ray spectra compared with other high energy objects and thus the spectral shape can be used to identify NSMs.Numerically, Terada et al.(2022) provides a new method to identify of NSMs using color-color diagram both in the hard Xray (10-500 keV) and gamma-ray (70-3000 keV) bands.
In this study, we searched for NSM remnants at the galactic center region ($-15^{\circ}

Primary author

Mr Hayato Ohsumi (Saitama Univ.)

Co-authors

Prof. Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama Univ.,JAXA) Mr Yugo Motogami (Saitama Univ.) Prof. Satoru Katsuda (Saitama Univ.) Prof. Aya Bamba (U.Tokyo) Prof. Ryo Yamazaki (Aoyama Gakuin) Prof. Shin-ichiro Fujimoto (Kumamoto NCT)

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