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The detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and gamma rays revealed that short gamma-ray bursts are associated with the merger of neutron-stars. Gamma rays are thought to result from the formation of collimated jets, but the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Amanda Farah , Reed Essick , Zoheyr Doctor , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

We study the implications of the recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of merging neutron stars and their electromagnetic counterpart, events GW170817 and GRB170817A, on the viability of the doubly coupled bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Yashar Akrami , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Valeri Vardanyan

We discuss the different signals, in gravitational and electromagnetic waves, emitted during the merger of two compact stars. We will focus in particular on the possible contraints that those signals can provide on the equation of state of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-08 Alessandro Drago , Giuseppe Pagliara , Sergei B. Popov , Silvia Traversi , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz

Detecting gravitational wave bursts (characterised by short durations and poorly modelled waveforms) requires to have coincidences between several interferometric detectors in order to reject non-stationary noise events. As the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas Arnaud , Matteo Barsuglia , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Philippe Canitrot , Fabien Cavalier , Michel Davier , Patrice Hello , Thierry Pradier

On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Virgo observed GW170817, the first gravitational-wave (GW) signal from a binary neutron star merger. It was followed by a short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817A, and by a non-thermal afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Giulia Gianfagna , Luigi Piro , Francesco Pannarale , Hendrik Van Eerten , Fulvio Ricci , Geoffrey Ryan , Eleonora Troja

The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration has announced the detection of GW170817 and has associated it with GRB 170817A. These signals have been followed after 11 hours by the optical and infrared emission of AT 2017gfo. The origin of this complex…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini , Y. Wang , U. Barres de Almeida , C. L. Bianco , Y. Chen , R. V. Lobato , C. Maia , D. Primorac , R. Moradi , J. F. Rodriguez

The joint detection of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Joint GW-EM observations can be used to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Daniel Finstad , Soumi De , Duncan A. Brown , Edo Berger , Christopher M. Biwer

With the observation of the gravitational wave event of August 17th 2017 and then with those of the extragalactic neutrino of September 22nd, the multi messenger astronomy era has definitely begun. With the opening of this new panorama, it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-09 F. C. T. Barbato , G. Barbarino , A. Boiano , R. de Asmundis , F. Garufi , F. Guarino , R. Guida , F. Renno

The recent discovery of a faint gamma-ray burst (GRB) coincident with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW 170817 revealed the existence of a population of low-luminosity short duration gamma-ray transients produced by neutron star mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 E. Troja , G. Ryan , L. Piro , H. van Eerten , S. B. Cenko , Y. Yoon , S. -K. Lee , M. Im , T. Sakamoto , P. Gatkine , A. Kutyrev , S. Veilleux

The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger, GW170817, marked the dawn of a new era in time-domain astronomy. Monitoring of the radio emission produced by the merger, including high-resolution radio imaging, enabled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy , David L. Kaplan , Kenta Hotokezaka , Juan Pablo Bonilla Ataides , Elizabeth K. Mahony , Elaine M. Sadler

The ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors LIGO and Virgo have enabled the birth of multi-messenger GW astronomy via the detection of GWs from merging stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). GW170817, the first…

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

The advent of large panoramic photometric surveys of the sky offers the possibly of exploring the association of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with supernovae. To date, a few gamma-ray bursts have been connected possibly with supernovae: GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeremy S. Heyl

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) based on the bimodal distribution of their durations. LGRBs and SGRBs are typically characterized by different statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Yun Wang , Lu-Yao Jiang , Jia Ren

Finding the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of binary compact star merger, especially the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, is critically important for gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics. On Aug. 17, 2017,…

We present a search for binary neutron star mergers that produced gravitational-waves during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO and gamma-ray emission seen by either \textit{Swift}-BAT or Fermi-GBM, similar to GW170817 and GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-11 Alexander H. Nitz , Alex B. Nielsen , Collin D. Capano

The degree to which gamma ray bursts are collimated is now the dominant uncertainty in their energy requirements and event rates. In this review I begin with the reasons for studying GRB collimation, then discuss existing tests for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 James E. Rhoads

Low--luminosity gamma-ray bursts (LLGRBs) are promising candidates for high-energy neutrinos, yet no coincident neutrino events have been detected so far. Recent advances in X-ray time-domain astronomy, together with the development of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-16 Wenkang Lian , He Gao , Shunke Ai , B. Theodore Zhang

It has been suggested that short gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have shorter or undetectable spectral lags than long GRB because in the former, the observer's line of sight makes a larger angle with the GRB jet axis than for the latter. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 David Eichler

We show that the delay between GRB170817A and GW170817 is incompatible with de-beamed emission from an off-axis relativistic jet. The prompt emission and the subsequent radio and X-ray observations can instead be interpreted within a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Om S. Salafia , Gabriele Ghisellini , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Monica Colpi