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The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor reported the possible detection of the gamma-ray counterpart of a binary black hole merger event, GW150914. We show that the gamma-ray emission is caused by a relativistic outflow with Lorentz factor larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Ryo Yamazaki , Katsuaki Asano , Yutaka Ohira

The transition from prompt to the afterglow emission is one of the most exciting and least understood phases in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Correlations among optical, X-ray and gamma-ray emission in GRBs have been explored, to attempt to…

GRB170817A (also GW170817) became the first binary neutron star (BNS) merger event detected via gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals. Over the next 4 years, various multiband observations have led to re-imagine the various short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-17 Ranadeep Ghosh Dastidar , Paul Duffell

The joint detection of GW 170817 and GRB 170817A indicated that at least a fraction of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) originate from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. One possible remnant of a BNS merger is a rapidly rotating, strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Bing Zhang

The short GRB 170817A associated to the first detection of gravitation waves from a Binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger was in many ways unusual. Possible explanations are emission from a cocoon or cocoon break out, off-axis view of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-22 Houri Ziaeepour

GW170817 is the first gravitational wave detection of a binary neutron star merger. It was accompanied by radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of 40 Mpc. It has been proposed that…

One possible progenitor of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is thought to be from a double neutron star (NS) merger, and the remnant of such a merger may be a supramassive NS, which is supported by rigid rotation and through its survival of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Yong Yuan , Hou-Jun Lü , Hao-Yu Yuan , Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei-Hua Lei , En-Wei Liang

The short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 170817A was the first GRB associated with a gravitational-wave event. Due to the exceptionally low luminosity of the prompt $\gamma$-ray and the afterglow emission, the origin of both radiation components is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 L. Resmi , S. Schulze , C. H. Ishwara Chandra , K. Misra , J. Buchner , M. De Pasquale , R. Sanchez Ramirez , S. Klose , S. Kim , N. R. Tanvir , P. T. O'Brien

The central engine of a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) is widely believed to launch a pair of oppositely moving jets, i.e. the forward jet moving towards us and the counter jet regressing away. The forward jet generates the radiation typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Jia-Ning Li , Yi-Ying Wang , Yun Wang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Stefano Covino , Yi-Zhong Fan

The gravitational waves from the first binary neutron star merger, GW170817, were accompanied by a multi-wavelength electromagnetic counterpart, from $\gamma$-rays to radio. The accompanying gamma-rays, seems at first to confirm the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Ehud Nakar , Ore Gottlieb , Tsvi Piran , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Greg Hallinan

We present our observations of electromagnetic transients associated with GW170817/GRB 170817A using optical telescopes of Chilescope observatory and Big Scanning Antenna (BSA) of Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory at 110MHz. The…

The event GW170817/GRB 170817A, discovered via the successful joint observation of its gravitational wave radiation and its multi-wavelength electromagnetic counterparts, was the first definite "smoking-gun" from the merger of two neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Hou-Jun Lü , Jun Shen , Lin Lan , Jared Rice , Wei-Hua Lei , En-Wei Liang

On 17 August 2017, a gravitational wave event (GW170817) and an associated short gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) from a binary neutron star merger had been detected. The followup optical/infrared observations also identified the…

We report Chandra observations of GW170817, the first neutron star-neutron star merger discovered by the joint LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, and the first direct detection of gravitational radiation associated with an electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-23 Daryl Haggard , Melania Nynka , John J. Ruan , Vicky Kalogera , S. Bradley Cenko , Phil Evans , Jamie A. Kennea

The multi-wavelength electromagnetic afterglow from the binary neutron star merger GW170817/GRB170817A has displayed long-term power-law brightening, and presented challenges to post-merger models of the non-thermal emission. The most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Melania Nynka , John J. Ruan , Daryl Haggard , Phil A. Evans

We present the first relativistic MHD numerical simulation of a magnetic jet that propagates through and emerges from the dynamical ejecta of a binary neutron star merger. Generated by the magnetized rotation of the merger remnant, the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Omer Bromberg , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Ore Gottlieb , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

In light of the joint multimessenger detection of a binary neutron star merger as the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A and in gravitational waves as GW170817, we reanalyze the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor data of one of the closest short…

GRB 170817A is the first short gamma-ray burst (GRB) with direct detection of the gravitational-wave radiation and also the spectroscopically identified macronova emission (i.e., AT 2017gfo). The prompt emission of this burst, however, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-02 Chuan Yue , Qian Hu , Fu-Wen Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

Recent follow-up observations of the binary neutron star (NS) merging event GW170817/SGRB 170817A reveal that its X-ray/optical/radio emissions are brightening continuously up to $\sim 100$ days post-merger. This late-time brightening is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-02 Jin-Jun Geng , Zi-Gao Dai , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Long-Biao Li , Bing Li , Yan-Zhi Meng

We report the discovery of rising X-ray emission from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger event GW170817. This is the first detection of X-ray emission from a gravitational-wave source. Observations acquired with the Chandra X-ray…