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