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Fast ejecta expelled in binary neutron star (NS) mergers or energetic supernovae (SNe) should produce late-time synchrotron radio emission as the ejecta shocks into the surrounding ambient medium. Models for such radio flares typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Ben Margalit , Tsvi Piran

The merger of binary neutron stars (NSs) is among the most promising gravitational wave (GW) sources. Next-generation GW detectors are expected to detect signals from the NS merger within 200 Mpc. Detection of electromagnetic wave (EM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Masaomi Tanaka , Kenta Hotokezaka

In 2017, LIGO-Virgo collaborations reported detection of the first neutron star merger event, GW170817, which is accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts from radio to gamma rays. Although high-energy neutrinos were not detected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Shigeo S. Kimura

The double neutron star (DNS) merger event GW170817 signifies the first multimessenger (MM) event with electromagnetic-gravitational (EM-GW) observations. LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observational runs O4-5 promise to detect similar events and as yet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Maryam A. Abchouyeh , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Lorenzo Amati

GW170817 showed that neutron star mergers not only emit gravitational waves but also can release electromagnetic signatures in multiple wavelengths. Within the first half of the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors,…

Binary neutron star mergers are rich laboratories for physics, accessible with ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. If a neutron star remnant survives the merger, it can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Sharan Banagiri , Michael W. Coughlin , James Clark , Paul D. Lasky , M. A. Bizouard , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic

The observations of a macronova/kilonova accompanied by gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) confirmed that neutron star coalescences produce copious ejecta. The coincident gamma-ray detection implies the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Imre Bartos , Kunihito Ioka , Ik Siong Heng , Peter Mészáros

The first neutron star (NS) merger observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo, GW170817, and its fireworks of electromagnetic counterparts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum marked the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-24 Daniel M. Siegel

Electromagnetic observations of the first binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger GW170817 has established that relativistic jets can be successfully launched in BNS mergers. Typically, such jets produce emission in two phases: $\gamma$-ray prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 S Mohan , M Saleem , L Resmi

We present synthetic radio images of the GRB170817A afterglow, computed from moving-mesh hydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star merger outflows. Having expanded for nearly a year, the merger remnant is expected to subtend roughly 5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-25 Jonathan Zrake , Xiaoyi Xie , Andrew MacFadyen

Binary neutron-star (BNS) mergers are accompanied by multi-messenger emissions, including gravitational wave (GW), neutrino, and electromagnetic signals. Some fraction of BNS mergers may result in a rapidly spinning magnetar as a remnant,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Brian D. Metzger

In August 2017, the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, made it possible to study neutron stars in compact binary systems using gravitational waves. Despite being the loudest gravitational wave event detected to date…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 Stephanie M. Brown , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan

Gravitational waves detected from the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 constrained the NS equation of state by placing an upper bound on certain parameters describing the binary's tidal interactions. We show that the interpretation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-11 David Radice , Albino Perego , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The detection of a secular post-merger gravitational wave (GW) signal in a binary neutron star (BNS) merger serves as strong evidence for the formation of a long-lived post-merger neutron star (NS), which can help constrain the maximum mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Yikang Chen , Bin Liu , Shunke Ai , Lin Lan , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Zong-Hong Zhu

Limited by the sensitivities of the current gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the central remnant of the binary neutron star (NS) merger associated with GW170817 remains an open question. Considering the relatively large total mass, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-21 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu , Ang Li , Bing Zhang

The final inspiral of double neutron star and neutron star-black hole binaries are likely to be detected by advanced networks of ground-based gravitational wave (GW) interferometers. Maximizing the science returns from such a discovery will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Brian D. Metzger , Edo Berger

GW230529_181500 represented the first gravitational-wave detection with one of the component objects' mass inferred to lie in the previously hypothesized mass gap between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest observed black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Ivan Markin , Anna Puecher , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

The discovery of a radioactively powered kilonova associated with the binary neutron star merger GW170817 was the first - and still only - confirmed electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event. However, observations of…

The milestone discovery of GW 170817-GRB 170817A-AT 2017gfo has shown that gravitational wave (GW) could be produced during the merger of neutron star-neutron star/black hole and that in electromagnetic (EM) wave a gamma-ray burst (GRB) and…