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GW170817/GRB170817A probably marks a double neutron star coalescence. Extended Emission $t_s\simeq (0.67\pm0.03)$\,s post-merger shows an estimated energy output ${\cal E}\simeq (3.5\pm1)\%M_\odot c^2$ determined by response curves to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-29 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Massimo Della Valle , Amir Levinson

A multi-messenger approach with gravitational-wave transients and high-energy neutrinos is expected to open new perspectives in the study of the most violent astrophysical processes in the Universe. In particular, gamma-ray bursts are of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 B. Bouhou

Gravitational waves from a merger of two neutron stars (NSs) were discovered for the first time in GW170817, together with diverse electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. To make constraints on a relativistic jet from the NS merger, we calculate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-10 Kunihito Ioka , Takashi Nakamura

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are believed to arise from compact binary mergers (either neutron star-neutron star or black hole-neutron star). If so their jets must penetrate outflows that are ejected during the merger. As a jet crosses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Ore Gottlieb , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

The recent detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts from the double neutron star merger event GW+EM170817, supports the standard paradigm of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and kilonovae/macronovae. It is important…

A major boost in the understanding of the universe was given by the revelation of the first coalescence event of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the observation of the same event across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. With 3rd…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Elena Cuoco , Barbara Patricelli , Alberto Iess , Filip Morawski

Neutron star binaries, such as the one observed in the famous binary pulsar PSR 1916+13, end their life in a catastrophic merge event (denoted here NS$^2$M). The merger releases $\approx 5 \cdot 10^{53}$ergs, mostly as neutrinos and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tsvi Piran

Neutron star mergers are very violent events involving extreme physical processes: dynamic, strong-field gravity, large magnetic field, very hot, dense matter, and the copious production of neutrinos. Accurate modeling of such a system and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 C. Palenzuela , S. L. Liebling , B. Miñano

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries produce gravitational-wave (GW) emission and outflows with significant kinetic energies. These outflows result in radio emissions through synchrotron radiation. We explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Kenta Hotokezaka , Samaya Nissanke , Gregg Hallinan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Close binary systems consisting of two neutron stars (BNS) emit gravitational waves, that allow them to merge on timescales shorter than Hubble time. It is widely believed, that NS-NS mergers in such systems power short gamma-ray bursts…

The post-merger gravitational wave (GW) radiation of the remnant formed in the binary neutron star (BNS) coalescence has not been directly measured, yet. We show in this work that the properties of the BNS involved in GW170817, additionally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-04 Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The electromagnetic radiation that followed the neutron star merger event GW170817 revealed that gamma-ray burst afterglows from jets misaligned with our line of sight exhibit a light curve with slowly rising flux. The slope of the rising…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-01 Hao Wang , Dimitrios Giannios

Double neutron star (DNS) merger events are promosing candidates of short Gamma-ray Burst (sGRB) progenitors as well as high-frequecy gravitational wave (GW) emitters. On August 17, 2017, such a coinciding event was detected by both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 B. -B. Zhang , B. Zhang , H. Sun , W. -H. Lei , H. Gao , Y. Li , L. Shao , Y. Zhao , Y. -D. Hu , H. -J. Lü , X. -F. Wu , X. -L. Fan , G. Wang , A. J. Castro-Tirado , S. Zhang , B. -Y. Yu , Y. -Y. Cao , E. -W. Liang

The first hours following a neutron star merger are considered to provide several UV/optical/NIR signals: $ \beta $-decay emission from free neutrons, radioactive decay of shocked heavy elements in the cocoon and cocoon's cooling emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Ore Gottlieb , Abraham Loeb

Recent long-term radio follow-up observations of GW 170817 reveals a simple power-law rising light curve, with a slope of $t^{0.78}$, up to 93 days after the merger. The latest X-ray detection at 109 days is also consistent with such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhi-Qiu Huang

Although gravitational-wave signals from exceptional low-mass compact binary coalescences, like GW170817, may carry matter signatures that differentiate the source from a binary black hole system, only one out of every eight events detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Reed Essick , Philippe Landry

Although the multimessenger detection of the neutron star merger event GW170817 confirmed that mergers are promising sites producing the majority of nature's heavy elements via the rapid neutron-capture process ($r$-process), a number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-04 Meng-Ru Wu , Projjwal Banerjee

The detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger confirmed that it is accompanied by the launch of fast merger ejecta. Analogous to supernova remnants, forward shocks formed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-12 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

Motivated by the recent detection of the gravitational wave signal emitted by a binary neutron star merger, we analyse the possible impact of dark matter on such signals. We show that dark matter cores in merging neutron stars may yield an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 John Ellis , Andi Hektor , Gert Hütsi , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Ville Vaskonen

The existence of merging black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries has been ascertained through the observation of their gravitational wave (GW) signals. However, to date, no definitive electromagnetic (EM) emission has been confidently…