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Markus Kromer

Researcher at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Publications -  123
Citations -  11382

Markus Kromer is an academic researcher from Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & White dwarf. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 118 publications receiving 10238 citations. Previous affiliations of Markus Kromer include Stockholm University & Max Planck Society.

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A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source

Stephen J. Smartt, +140 more
- 02 Nov 2017 - 
TL;DR: Observations and physical modelling of a rapidly fading electromagnetic transient in the galaxy NGC 4993, which is spatially coincident with GW170817, indicate that neutron-star mergers produce gravitational waves and radioactively powered kilonovae, and are a nucleosynthetic source of the r-process elements.
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Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether a surface helium detonation is capable of triggering a subsequent detonation in the core even for this limiting case, based on approximate detonation initiation criteria in the literature.
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NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE FROM VIOLENT MERGERS OF WHITE DWARF BINARIES

TL;DR: In this paper, a simulation of a violent merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs with masses of 0.9 M and 1.1 M was presented, where a well-tested combination of codes was used to study the system.
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Sub-luminous type Ia supernovae from the mergers of equal-mass white dwarfs with mass ~0.9Msolar

TL;DR: A simulation of the merger of two equal-mass white dwarfs that leads to a sub-luminous explosion, although at the expense of requiring a single common-envelope phase, and component masses of ∼0.9M⊙.