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Context. The coincident detection of GW170817 and GRB170817A marked a milestone for the connection between binary neutron star (BNS) mergers and short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). These mergers can lead to the formation of a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 V. Mpisketzis , A. Nathanail

The most promising candidate for short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is the merger of two neutron stars (NSs), which produces kilonovae (KNe) in the aftermath. This merging can result in a fast-spinning, highly magnetic NS, known as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Nissim Fraija

Whether a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) is caused by a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS) after the merger of a NS binary is a crucial problem. We propose a BH model that explains short GRBs with long-lasting activities such as extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka

Here we collect three unique bursts, GRBs\,060614, 211211A and 211227A, all characterized by a long-duration main emission (ME) phase and a rebrightening extended emission (EE) phase, to study their observed properties and the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Jin-Ping Zhu , Xiangyu Ivy Wang , Hui Sun , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zhuo Li , Rui-Chong Hu , Ying Qin , Shichao Wu

The peculiar long gamma-ray burst (GRB) event, GRB 211211A, is known for it is association with a kilonova feature. Whereas most long GRBs are thought to originate in the core collapse of massive stars, the presence of kilonova suggests GRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Xiao-Tian Xu , Bin-Bin Zhang , Yun-Lang Guo , Xiang-Dong Li

For decades, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been broadly divided into `long'- and `short'-duration bursts, lasting more or less than 2s, respectively. However, this dichotomy does not map perfectly to the two progenitor channels that are…

Two long-duration gamma-ray bursts were recently discovered with kilonovae, the signature of r-process element production in a compact binary merger, rather than supernovae. This has forced a re-evaluation of the long-established dichotomy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 A. A. Chrimes , N. Gaspari , A. J. Levan , M. M. Briel , J. J. Eldridge , B. P. Gompertz , G. Nelemans , A. E. Nugent , J. C. Rastinejad , W. G. J. van Zeist

The contemporaneous detection of gravitational waves and gamma rays from the GW170817/GRB 170817A, followed by kilonova emission a day after, confirmed compact binary neutron-star mergers as progenitors of short-duration gamma-ray bursts…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of high-energy radiation arising from energetic cosmic explosions. Bursts of long (>2 s) duration are produced by the core-collapse of massive stars, those of short (< 2 s) duration by the merger of two…

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are explosions of cosmic origin believed to be associated with the merger of two compact objects, either two neutron stars, or a neutron star and a black hole. The presence of at least one neutron star has long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rosalba Perna , Davide Lazzati , Bruno Giacomazzo

We model the short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) 090510 as the product of a magnetized neutron star (NS) binary merger. Accounting for the NS critical mass constraint given by the mass of PSR J0952--0607, we infer that GRB 090510 was a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-11 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini , Yu Wang

The progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been an unresolved issue. GRB 230307A stands out as an exceptionally bright event, belonging to the long-duration GRBs but also exhibiting a late emission component reminiscent of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Junping Chen , Rong-Feng Shen , Wen-Jun Tan , Chen-Wei Wang , Shao-Lin Xiong , Run-Chao Chen , Bin-Bin Zhang

Binary neutron-star mergers have long been associated with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This connection was confirmed with the first coincident detection of gravitational waves together with electromagnetic radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-11 Antonios Nathanail , Oliver Porth , Luciano Rezzolla

Events GW170817 and GRB 170817A provide the best confirmation so far that compact binary mergers where at least one of the companions is a neutron star (NS) can be the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). An open question for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We expand the theoretical framework by Gottlieb el al. (2023), which connects binary merger populations with long and short binary gamma-ray bursts (lbGRBs and sbGRBs), incorporating kilonovae as a key diagnostic tool. We show that lbGRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Ore Gottlieb , Brian D. Metzger , Francois Foucart , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

The joint observation of GW170817 and GRB170817A proved that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-ray Bursts (SGRB): this established a direct link between the still unsettled SGRB central engine and the outcome…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Barbara Patricelli , Maria Grazia Bernardini

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…

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 localization of some short-hard gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in galaxies with low star formation rates has lent support to the suggestion that these events result from compact object binary mergers. We discuss how new simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joshua A. Faber , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro , Keisuke Taniguchi

We present fully GRMHD simulations of the merger of binary neutron star (BNS) systems. We consider BNSs producing a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that collapses to a spinning black hole (BH) surrounded by a magnetized accretion disk in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-31 Takumu Kawamura , Bruno Giacomazzo , Wolfgang Kastaun , Riccardo Ciolfi , Andrea Endrizzi , Luca Baiotti , Rosalba Perna
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