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Catching Element Formation In The Act
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Fryer, Chris L.; Timmes, Frank; Hungerford, Aimee L.; Couture, Aaron; Adams, Fred; Aoki, Wako; Arcones, Almudena; Arnett, David; Auchettl, Katie; Avila, Melina; Badenes, Carles; Baron, Eddie; Bauswein, Andreas; Beacom, John; Blackmon, Jeff; Blondin, Stephane; Bloser, Peter; Boggs, Steve; Boss, Alan; Brandt, Terri; Bravo, Eduardo; Brown, Ed; Brown, Peter; Budtz-Jorgensen, Steve Bruenn. Carl; Burns, Eric; Calder, Alan; Caputo, Regina; Champagne, Art; Chevalier, Roger; Chieffi, Alessandro; Chipps, Kelly; Cinabro, David; Clarkson, Ondrea; Clayton, Don; Coc, Alain; Connolly, Devin; Conroy, Charlie; Cote, Benoit; Couch, Sean; Dauphas, Nicolas; deBoer, Richard James; Deibel, Catherine; Denisenkov, Pavel; Desch, Steve; Dessart, Luc; Diehl, Roland; Doherty, Carolyn; Dominguez, Inma; Dong, Subo; Dwarkadas, Vikram; Fan, Doreen; Fields, Brian; Fields, Carl; Filippenko, Alex; Fisher, Robert; Foucart, Francois; Fransson, Claes; Frohlich, Carla; Fuller, George; Gibson, Brad; Giryanskaya, Viktoriya; Gorres, Joachim; Goriely, Stephane; Grebenev, Sergei; Grefenstette, Brian; Grohs, Evan; Guillochon, James; Harpole, Alice; Harris, Chelsea; Harris, J. Austin; Harrison, Fiona; Hartmann, Dieter; Hashimoto, Masa-aki; Heger, Alexander; Hernanz, Margarita; Herwig, Falk; Hirschi, Raphael; Hix, Raphael William; Hoflich, Peter; Hoffman, Robert; Holcomb, Cole; Hsiao, Eric; Iliadis, Christian; Janiuk, Agnieszka; Janka, Thomas; Jerkstrand, Anders; Johns, Lucas; Jones, Samuel; Jose, Jordi; Kajino, Toshitaka; Karakas, Amanda; Karpov, Platon; Kasen, Dan; Kierans, Carolyn; Kippen, Marc; Korobkin, Oleg; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Kozma, Cecilia; Krot, Saha; Kumar, Pawan; Kuvvetli, Irfan; Laird, Alison; Laming, Martin; Larsson, Josefin; Lattanzio, John; Lattimer, James; Leising, Mark; Lennarz, Annika; Lentz, Eric; Limongi, Marco; Lippuner, Jonas; Livne, Eli; Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole; Longland, Richard; Lopez, Laura A.; Lugaro, Maria; Lutovinov, Alexander; Madsen, Kristin; Malone, Chris; Matteucci, Francesca; McEnery, Julie; Meisel, Zach; Messer, Bronson; Metzger, Brian; Meyer, Bradley; Meynet, Georges; Mezzacappa, Anthony; Miller, Jonah; Miller, Richard; Milne, Peter; Misch, Wendell; Mitchell, Lee; Mosta, Philipp; Motizuki, Yuko; Muller, Bernhard; Mumpower, Matthew; Murphy, Jeremiah; Nagataki, Shigehiro; Nakar, Ehud; Nomoto, Ken'ichi; Nugent, Peter; Nunes, Filomena; O'Shea, Brian; Oberlack, Uwe; Pain, Steven; Parker, Lucas; Perego, Albino; Pignatari, Marco; Pinedo, Gabriel Martinez; Plewa, Tomasz; Poznanski, Dovi; Priedhorsky, William; Pritychenko, Boris; Radice, David; Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico; Rauscher, Thomas; Reddy, Sanjay; Rehm, Ernst; Reifarth, Rene; Richman, Debra; Ricker, Paul; Rijal, Nabin; Roberts, Luke; Ropke, Friedrich; Rosswog, Stephan; Ruiter, Ashley J.; Ruiz, Chris; Savin, Daniel Wolf; Schatz, Hendrik; Schneider, Dieter; Schwab, Josiah; Seitenzahl, Ivo; Shen, Ken; Siegert, Thomas; Sim, Stuart; Smith, David; Smith, Karl; Smith, Michael; Sollerman, Jesper; Sprouse, Trevor; Spyrou, Artemis; Starrfield, Sumner; Steiner, Andrew; Strong, Andrew W.; Sukhbold, Tuguldur; Suntzeff, Nick; Surman, Rebecca; Tanimori, Toru; The, Lih-Sin; Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl; Tolstov, Alexey; Tominaga, Nozomu; Tomsick, John; Townsley, Dean; Tsintari, Pelagia; Tsygankov, Sergey; Vartanyan, David; Venters, Tonia; Vestrand, Tom; Vink, Jacco; Waldman, Roni; Wang, Lifang; Wang, Xilu; Warren, MacKenzie; West, Christopher; Wheeler, J. Craig; Wiescher, Michael; Winkler, Christoph; Winter, Lisa; Wolf, Bill; Woolf, Richard; Woosley, Stan; Wu, Jin; Wrede, Chris; Yamada, Shoichi; Young, Patrick; Zegers, Remco; Zingale, Michael; Zwart, Simon Portegies
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Gamma-ray astronomy explores the most energetic photons in nature to address some of the most pressing puzzles in contemporary astrophysics. It encompasses a wide range of objects and phenomena: stars, supernovae, novae, neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes, nucleosynthesis, the interstellar medium, cosmic rays and relativistic-particle acceleration, and the evolution of galaxies. MeV gamma-rays provide a unique probe of nuclear processes in astronomy, directly measuring radioactive decay, nuclear de-excitation, and positron annihilation. The substantial information carried by gamma-ray photons allows us to see deeper into these objects, the bulk of the power is often emitted at gamma-ray energies, and radioactivity provides a natural physical clock that adds unique information. New science will be driven by time-domain population studies at gamma-ray energies. This science is enabled by next-generation gamma-ray instruments with one to two orders of magnitude better sensitivity, larger sky coverage, and faster cadence than all previous gamma-ray instruments. This transformative capability permits: (a) the accurate identification of the gamma-ray emitting objects and correlations with observations taken at other wavelengths and with other messengers; (b) construction of new gamma-ray maps of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies where extended regions are distinguished from point sources; and (c) considerable serendipitous science of scarce events -- nearby neutron star mergers, for example. Advances in technology push the performance of new gamma-ray instruments to address a wide set of astrophysical questions.
Comment: 14 pages including 3 figures
Comment: 14 pages including 3 figures