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The landmark multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 provided firm evidence that such mergers can produce short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). However, the limited number of BNS detections by current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Alessio Ludovico De Santis , Samuele Ronchini , Filippo Santoliquido , Marica Branchesi

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

In the dawn of the multi-messenger era including gravitational waves, which was marked by the first ever coincident detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation it is important to lay back and think about established…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 Antonios Nathanail

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are among the most luminous explosions in the universe, releasing in less than one second the energy emitted by our Galaxy over one year. Despite decades of observations, the nature of their "central-engine"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Luciano Rezzolla , Bruno Giacomazzo , Luca Baiotti , Jonathan Granot , Chryssa Kouveliotou , Miguel A. Aloy

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are among the most luminous explosions in the Universe and their origin still remains uncertain. Observational evidence favors the association with binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Riccardo Ciolfi , Daniel M. Siegel

A significant interest has emerged recently in assessing whether collimated and ultra-relativistic outflows can be produced by a long-lived remnant from a binary neutron-star (BNS) merger, with different approaches leading to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-14 Carlo Musolino , Luciano Rezzolla , Elias R. Most

The collapsar model was proposed to explain the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while the short GRBs are associated with the mergers of compact objects. In the first case, mainly the energetics of the events is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis

A binary neutron star (BNS) merger has been widely argued to be one of the progenitors of a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB). This central engine can be verified if its gravitational-wave (GW) event is detected simultaneously. Once confirmed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-03 Di Xiao , Liang-Duan Liu , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu

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

The precise origin of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) remains an important open question in relativistic astrophysics. Increasingly, observational evidence suggests the merger of a binary compact object system as the source for most SGRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-21 Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb , Edo Berger

The coalescence of a binary neutron star (NS) system may in some cases produce a massive NS remnant that is long-lived and, potentially, indefinitely stable to gravitational collapse. Such a remnant has been proposed as an explanation for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Brian D. Metzger , Geoffrey C. Bower

The recent coincident detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary neutron star merger with aLIGO/Virgo and short-lived gamma-ray emission with Fermi/GBM (called GW 170817) is a milestone for the establishment of multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-17 J. Michael Burgess , Jochen Greiner , Damien Begue , Dimitrios Giannios , Francesco Berlato , Vladimir M. Lipunov

The first multimessenger discovery of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, proved that such mergers can source short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and produce \rprocess elements. The initial merger rate from this single event in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maya Fishbach , Alexander P. Ji , Wen-fai Fong , Tom Y. Wu , Jillian C. Rastinejad , Aditya Vijaykumar , Hsin-Yu Chen

The electromagnetic emission and the afterglow observations of the binary neutron star merger event GW 170817A confirmed the association of the merger with a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) harboring a narrow ($5${\deg}-$10${\deg}) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Matteo Pais , Tsvi Piran , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

Short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) GRB 170817A was found to be related to a binary neutron star (BNS) merger. It is uncertain whether all SGRBs are caused by BNS mergers, and also under what conditions a BNS merger can cause a SGRB. As BNS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Minori Shikauchi , Kipp Cannon , Haoxiang Lin , Tomonori Totani , J. Richard Shaw

The first neutron star binary merger detected in gravitational waves, GW170817 and the subsequent detection of its emission across the electromagnetic spectrum showed that these systems are viable progenitors of short $\gamma$-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Ariadna Murguia-Berthier , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Fabio De Colle , Agnieszka Janiuk , Stephan Rosswog , William H. Lee

We present numerical simulations of energetic flows propagating through the debris cloud of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger. Starting from the scale of the central engine, we use a moving-mesh hydrodynamics code to simulate the complete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Xiaoyi Xie , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

The joint detection of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 and the short-duration gamma-ray burst (SGRB) event GRB 170817A, marked the beginning of GW multi-messenger astronomy and confirmed that binary neutron star mergers are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-31 Luyanda Mazwi , Soebur Razzaque , Lutendo Nyadzani

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…

The merger of binary neutron stars (NS-NS) as the progenitor of short Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been confirmed by the discovery of the association of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 with GRB 170817A. However, the merger product…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Shuai-Bing Ma , Wei Xie , Bin Liao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü , Yu Liu , Wei-Hua Lei