With the recent detection of multiple neutron star merger events, the necessity for a more comprehensive understanding of nuclear and atomic properties, as well as radiative transfer processes, has become increasingly critical. Despite advancements in our knowledge, significant uncertainties persist in opacity calculations, leading to variations in the strength and location of spectral...
The investigation of heavy N = Z nuclei and their neighbors has attracted significant attention both theoretically and experimentally due to their crucial role in nuclear structure studies and their substantial impact on modelling nuclear astrophysical processes, particularly as inputs for the astrophysical rapid proton-capture (rp) and $\nu$p processes [1-3]. Recent advancements at the IGISOL...
The limited but growing set of kilonova observations following neutron star mergers has established these events as significant sites for r-process nucleosynthesis [1,2]. Despite recent advances in spectral identification of several elements in merger ejecta [see for e.g. 3], precise abundance determinations remain challenging, particularly at later evolutionary phases where non-local...
