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We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and light. * GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves. * The detection of a spatially coincident weak burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock

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

We present the first numerical simulations that track the evolution of a black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) merger from pre-merger to $r\gtrsim10^{11}\,{\rm cm}$. The disk that forms after a merger of mass ratio $q=2$ ejects massive disk winds…

The binary neutron star (BNS) merger event GW170817 clearly shows that a BNS merger launches a short Gamma-Ray Burst (sGRB) jet. Unlike collapsars, where the ambient medium is static, in BNS mergers the jet propagates through the merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Hamid Hamidani , Kunihito Ioka

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

Massive, rapidly-spinning magnetar remnants produced as a result of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers may deposit a fraction of their energy into the surrounding kilonova ejecta, powering a synchrotron radio signal from the interaction of…

We study the long-term (t >> 10 s) evolution of the accretion disk after a neutron star(NS)-NS or NS-black hole merger, taking into account the radioactive heating by r-process nuclei formed in the first few seconds. We find that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Wenbin Lu , Eliot Quataert

The first multimessenger observation of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in August 2017 demonstrated the huge scientific potential of these extraordinary events. This breakthrough led to a number of discoveries and provided the best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Riccardo Ciolfi

Short gamma-ray bursts are believed to be produced by both binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers. We use current estimates for the BNS and NSBH merger rates to calculate the fraction of observable short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky , Francisco H. Vivanco , Simon P. Stevenson , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane

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

In May 2023, the LIGO Livingston observatory detected the likely black hole-neutron star (BHNS) merger GW230529_181500. That event is expected to be the merger of a 2.5-4.5 $M_{\odot}$ primary with a secondary compact object of mass between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-18 Tia Martineau , Francois Foucart , Mark Scheel , Matthew Duez , Lawrence Kidder , Harald Pfeiffer

The first combined detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in August 2017 (event named GW170817) represents a major landmark for the ongoing investigation on these extraordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-07 Riccardo Ciolfi

The detection of GW170817, it's extensive multi-wavelength follow-up campaign, and the large amount of theoretical development and interpretation that followed, have resulted in a significant step forward in the understanding of the binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-20 Davide Lazzati

We elucidate the feature of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star merger collapsing to a black hole by general relativistic simulation. We show that GW spectrum imprints the coalescence dynamics, formation process of disk,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-14 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

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

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 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

Determining the final result of black hole-neutron star mergers, and in particular the amount of matter remaining outside the black hole at late times and its properties, has been one of the main motivations behind the numerical simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-11 Francois Foucart

The detection of electromagnetic radiation (EM) accompanying the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 has revealed that these systems constitute at least a fraction of the progenitors of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rosalba Perna , M. Celeste Artale , Yi-Han Wang , Michela Mapelli , Davide Lazzati , Cecilia Sgalletta , Filippo Santoliquido

Black hole neutron star (BHNS) mergers have recently been detected through their gravitational-wave (GW) emission. BHNS mergers could also produce electromagnetic (EM) emission as a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB), and/or an sGRB afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-20 Oliver M. Boersma , Joeri van Leeuwen