The r-Process

• presence in solar matter: s-process residuals
• basic physics
• paths on chart of the nuclides here and here, animated here
• encoding in solar abundances versus A and versus N
• characteristic scales

Neutron Star Meger Nucleosynthesis and Kilonovae

• initial proposal: Latttimer & Schramm (1974) and Lattimer+ (1977)
• luminosity powered by radioactive decay
• merger structure
• GRMHD NS-NS movies by Illinois Shapiro group

Kilonova Observed: GW/GRB 170817

• theory/obs light curves (Copperthwaite+ 2017)