NASAはどのように明るい宇宙ブリップを追跡調査しているのか(How NASA Chases and Investigates Bright Cosmic Blips)

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2024-01-24 NASA

◆2022年10月9日、NASAのFermi Gamma-Ray SatelliteとNeil Gehrels Swift Observatoryが宇宙で異常に明るい信号を検出。これが「BOAT(史上最も明るい)」と呼ばれる超新星バーストで、大量の地上および宇宙望遠鏡が追跡。数ヶ月後には新たな信号「GRB 230307A」が検出され、異なる起源を持つことが明らかに。
◆これらの現象は時間領域およびマルチメッセンジャー天文学の一環で、宇宙の基本的な特性や物理、元素の起源に関する洞察を提供しています。これらのメッセンジャーには光以外も含まれ、これにより未知のシナリオの排除と新たな発見が可能となっています。

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JWSTが観測したコンパクト天体の合体による重元素生成 Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST

Andrew J. Levan,Benjamin P. Gompertz,Om Sharan Salafia,Mattia Bulla,Eric Burns,Kenta Hotokezaka,Luca Izzo,Gavin P. Lamb,Daniele B. Malesani,Samantha R. Oates,Maria Edvige Ravasio,Alicia Rouco Escorial,Benjamin Schneider,Nikhil Sarin,Steve Schulze,Nial R. Tanvir,Kendall Ackley,Gemma Anderson,Gabriel B. Brammer,Lise Christensen,Vikram S. Dhillon,Phil A. Evans,Michael Fausnaugh,Wen-fai Fong,… David Alexander Kann
Nature  Published:25 October 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06759-1

NASAはどのように明るい宇宙ブリップを追跡調査しているのか(How NASA Chases and Investigates Bright Cosmic Blips)

Abstract

The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)1, sources of high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs)2 and likely production sites for heavy-element nucleosynthesis by means of rapid neutron capture (the r-process)3. Here we present observations of the exceptionally bright GRB 230307A. We show that GRB 230307A belongs to the class of long-duration GRBs associated with compact object mergers4,5,6 and contains a kilonova similar to AT2017gfo, associated with the GW merger GW170817 (refs. 7,8,9,10,11,12). We obtained James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy 29 and 61 days after the burst. The spectroscopy shows an emission line at 2.15 microns, which we interpret as tellurium (atomic mass A = 130) and a very red source, emitting most of its light in the mid-infrared owing to the production of lanthanides. These observations demonstrate that nucleosynthesis in GRBs can create r-process elements across a broad atomic mass range and play a central role in heavy-element nucleosynthesis across the Universe.

1701物理及び化学
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