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Sarah Nickerson, NASA Ames Research Center

Pavan Vynatheya, University of Toronto

Reed Essick, University of Toronto

Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, Northwestern University

Lieke Van Son, Harvard University

Black hole-neutron star and neutron star-neutron star mergers are powerful emitters of gravitational waves, and can produce a wide range of bright electromagnetic transients. They also provide us with a remarkable environment to study nuclear interactions in the cold, dense core of neutron stars, and may significantly contribute to the production of many heavy elements whose origin remains unexplained.