.. _examples: ########### Lightcurves ########### ============ Introduction ============ In this chapter, we discuss kilonova light curves and what goes into some of the modeling behind them. Many good references exist such as Metzger and the `Kilonova Handbook `_ Brian Metzger ------------- In the kilonova handbook, one can generally imagine the themral energy of a given shell of the mass ejecta evolving as `Equation 14 `_ Wollaeger --------- `here `_ Tim Dietrich and Maximiliano Ujevic ----------------------------------- `here <(https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03665.pdf>`_