Microbial communities in a boreal forest podzol profile and responses to the presence of Pinus sylvestris seedling roots

2013/11/18 by Andrew J. Levan, A. Levan, A. J. Levan +175 · 1 voice · 48 citations
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paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06759-1

published in Nature 626(8000), 737-741 (Nature Portfolio)

openalex publication_date 2013/11/18 · arxiv published 2023/07/05 · arxiv updated 2023/07/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)¹, sources of high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs)² and likely production sites for heavy-element nucleosynthesis by means of rapid neutron capture (the r-process)³. Here we present observations of the exceptionally bright GRB 230307A. We show that GRB 230307A belongs to the class of long-duration GRBs associated with compact object mergers^4-6 and contains a kilonova similar to AT2017gfo, associated with the GW merger GW170817 (refs. ^7-12). We obtained James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy 29 and 61 days after the burst. The spectroscopy shows an emission line at 2.15 microns, which we interpret as tellurium (atomic mass A = 130) and a very red source, emitting most of its light in the mid-infrared owing to the production of lanthanides. These observations demonstrate that nucleosynthesis in GRBs can create r-process elements across a broad atomic mass range and play a central role in heavy-element nucleosynthesis across the Universe.

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Discussions

• a very interesting set of observations (including JWST) of a z=.06 GRB kilonova - shame LIGO was not on at the time https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02098 [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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