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✨ PhD candidate at Swinburne University of Technology | OzGrav
🔭 Time-domain astronomy | Hunting for kilonovae
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Hi! Can I please be added?
Here's my ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-21...
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We base expectations on the intrinsic binary neutron star merger (BNS) rate from gravitational wave detectors, but there are multiple rates from different methods (for a summary+fig below: link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
However, observationally we’re looking at <1 per year with current tech
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A kilonova occurs when a neutron star merges with another neutron star or with a black hole. The kilonova itself is the electromagnetic emission bursting from this event, and is very rare!
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I’m currently an astrophysics PhD student, I do fast transient astronomy in optical wavelengths :)
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