Speaker
Kenta Hotokezaka
(University of Tokyo, Japan)
Description
A kilonova in the first neutron star merger GW170817 provided us with evidence that the merger ejects a large amount of neutron rich material. Despite the success of the very detailed observations, there remain unanswered questions. Non-LTE modelings of kilonovae likely play key roles to fully understand kilonovae. I will talk about the recent progress in non-LTE kilonova and discuss the implications of the non-LTE effects
to the kilonova in GW170817 as well as to future observations.
