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The mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) and neutron star-black holes (NSBHs) binaries have long been linked to short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). However, despite their stellar progenitors, SGRBs are often found outside the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 N. Gaspari , A. J. Levan , A. A. Chrimes , A. E. Nugent

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), brief intense emission of $\gamma-$rays characterized by a duration shorter than 2 seconds that are plausibly powered by the coalescence of binary neutron stars, are believed to be strong gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-27 Yi-Zhong Fan , Xue-Feng Wu , Da-Ming Wei

The contemporaneous detection of gravitational waves and gamma rays from the GW170817/GRB 170817A, followed by kilonova emission a day after, confirmed compact binary neutron-star mergers as progenitors of short-duration gamma-ray bursts…

Evidence is growing for a class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) characterized by an initial ~0.1-1 s spike of hard radiation followed, after a ~3-10 s lull in emission, by a softer period of extended emission lasting ~10-100 s. In a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. D. Metzger , E. Quataert , Todd A. Thompson

The first detections of afterglows from short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have confirmed the previous suspicion that they are triggered by a different central engine than long bursts. In particular, the recent detections of short GRBs in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rosswog

The joint detection of GW~170817/GRB 170817 confirmed the long-standing theory that binary neutron star mergers produce short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) jets that can successfully break out of the surrounding ejecta. At the same time, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Maria Petropoulou , Dimitrios Giannios

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are expected to form from the coalescence of compact binaries, either of primordial origin or from dynamical interactions in globular clusters. In this paper, we investigate the possibility that the offset and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Salvaterra , B. Devecchi , M. Colpi , P. D'Avanzo

In the binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) scenario, long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate in a cataclysmic event that occurs in a binary system composed of a carbon-oxygen (CO) star and a neutron star (NS) companion in close orbit. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-19 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini , L. Li , R. Moradi , J. F. Rodriguez , Y. Wang

We present the results from new relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star mergers using realistic non-zero temperature equations of state. We vary several unknown parameters in the system such as the neutron star (NS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Roland Oechslin , Thomas Janka

Short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) show a large diversity in their properties. This suggests that the observed phenomenon can be caused by different "central engines" or that the engine produces a variety of outcomes depending on its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-13 Giovanni Camelio , Tim Dietrich , Stephan Rosswog

Recent observations indicate that in a large fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers a long-lived neutron star (NS) may be formed rather than a black hole. Unambiguous electromagnetic (EM) signatures of such a scenario would strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi

The first locations of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in elliptical galaxies suggest they are produced by the mergers of double neutron star (DNS) binaries in old stellar populations. Globular clusters, where the extreme densities of very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan Grindlay , Simon Portegies Zwart , Stephen McMillan

The short-duration ($\lesssim2\;$s) GRB 170817A in the nearby ($D=40\;$Mpc) elliptical galaxy NGC 4993 is the first electromagnetic counterpart of the first gravitational wave (GW) detection of a binary neutron-star (NS-NS) merger. It was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jonathan Granot , Ramandeep Gill , Dafne Guetta , Fabio De Colle

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be produced by relativistic jets from mergers of neutron-stars (NS) or neutron-stars and black-holes (BH). If the Lorentz-factors $\Gamma$ of jets from compact-stellar-mergers follow a similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi

Binary neutron star mergers are considered to be the most favorable sources that produce electromagnetic (EM) signals associated with gravitational waves (GWs). These mergers are the likely progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-26 Adithan Kathirgamaraju , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified into long and short populations (i.e., LGRBs and SGRBs) based on the observed bimodal distribution of duration $T_{90}$. Multimessenger observations indicated that most SGRBs and LGRBs should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most intense transient gamma-ray events in the sky when they are on together with the strong evidences (i.e. the isotropic and inhomogeneous distribution of GRBs detected by BASTE) that they are located at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 K. S. Cheng , T. Lu

The origin of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) is associated with outflows powered by the remnant of a binary neutron star merger. This remnant can be either a black hole or a highly magnetized, fastly spinning neutron star, also known as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustavo Soares , Pablo Bosch , Davide Lazzati , Philipp Mösta

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) generate powerful relativistic jets that inject a large amount of energy into their surrounding environment, producing blast waves that accelerate particles to high energies. The GRB afterglow radiation provides a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 P. Tiwari , B. Banerjee , D. Miceli , G. Oganesyan , A. Ierardi , S. Macera , M. Branchesi , L. Nava , S. Mohnani , S. Agarwal , A. Shukla

The discovery of GRB 170817A, the first unambiguous off-axis short gamma-ray burst arising from a neutron star merger, has challenged our understanding of the angular structure of relativistic jets. Studies of the jet propagation usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-06 Gerardo Urrutia , Fabio De Colle , Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz