{"id":5170,"date":"2019-02-21T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T02:19:05","slug":"late-time-kilonova-observations-can-shed-light-on-the-synthesis-of-natures-heaviest-nuclei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/5170\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-Time Kilonova Observations Can Shed Light On the Synthesis of Nature&#8217;s Heaviest Nuclei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a theoretical research work led by Dr. Meng-Ru Wu in the Institute of Physics, he and his collaborators show that a precise measurement of light emitted from the merger of two neutron stars \u2013 the kilonova \u2013 at months after the merger, can provide the elusive definitive proof of how the nature&#8217;s heaviest nuclei are made in our universe. The work has been published in <strong><em>Physical Review Letters<\/em><\/strong> in February, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please check the website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.sinica.edu.tw\/index_detail.php?id=research&amp;eng=T&amp;newsid=546\">https:\/\/www.phys.sinica.edu.tw\/index_detail.php?id=research&amp;eng=T&amp;newsid=546<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5171\" src=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"836\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1.jpg 836w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1-440x264.jpg 440w, https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1-1-180x109.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 836px) 100vw, 836px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a theoretical research work led by Dr. Meng-Ru Wu in the Institute of Physics, he and his collaborators show that a precise measurement of light emitted from the merger of two neutron stars \u2013 the kilonova \u2013 at months after the merger, can provide the elusive definitive proof of how the nature&#8217;s heaviest nuclei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}