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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…

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

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

Recent follow-up observations of the binary neutron star (NS) merging event GW170817/SGRB 170817A reveal that its X-ray/optical/radio emissions are brightening continuously up to $\sim 100$ days post-merger. This late-time brightening is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-02 Jin-Jun Geng , Zi-Gao Dai , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Long-Biao Li , Bing Li , Yan-Zhi Meng

Neutron star mergers can form a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) remnant, which may be the engine of a short gamma ray burst (SGRB) before it collapses to a black hole, possibly several hundred milliseconds after the merger. During the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Cecilia Chirenti , M. Coleman Miller , Tod Strohmayer , Jordan Camp

The merger of compact binaries, especially black holes and neutron stars, is frequently invoked to explain gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). In this paper, we present three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the relatively neglected mergers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 C. L. Fryer , S. E. Woosley , M. Herant , Melvyn B. Davies

The association of GRB170817A with GW170817 has confirmed the long-standing hypothesis that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are the progenitors of at least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). This connection has ushered in an era in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Davide Lazzati , Rosalba Perna , Riccardo Ciolfi , Bruno Giacomazzo , Diego Lopez-Camara , Brian Morsony

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 merging neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817 has been observed throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to $\gamma$-rays. The resulting energetics, variability, and light curves are shown to be…

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

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of quasi-circular, equal-mass, binary neutron stars that undergo merger. The initial stars are irrotational, $n=1$ polytropes and are magnetized. We explore two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Milton Ruiz , Ryan N. Lang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a novel fully Bayesian analysis to constrain short gamma-ray burst jet structures associated with cocoon, wide-angle and simple top-hat jet models, as well as the binary neutron star merger rate. These constraints are made given…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-12 Fergus Hayes , Ik Siong Heng , Gavin Lamb , En-Tzu Lin , John Veitch , Michael J. Williams

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 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 relativistic jet has been produced in the single well-localised binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected to date in gravitational waves (GWs), and the local rates of BNS mergers and short gamma-ray bursts are of the same order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 O. S. Salafia , A. Colombo , F. Gabrielli , I. Mandel

The multi-messenger joint observations of GW170817 and GRB170817A shed new light on the study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Not only did it substantiate the assumption that SGRBs originate from binary neutron star (BNS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Jia-wei Luo , Ye Li , Shunke Ai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

The short GRB 170817A associated to the first detection of gravitation waves from a Binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger was in many ways unusual. Possible explanations are emission from a cocoon or cocoon break out, off-axis view of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-22 Houri Ziaeepour

Short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are explosive transients caused by binary mergers of compact objects containing at least one neutron star. Multi-wavelength afterglow observations provide constraints on the physical parameters of the jet, its…

Merging neutron stars (NSs) are hot candidates for the still enigmatic sources of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). If the central engines of the huge energy release are accreting relic black holes (BHs) of such mergers, it is important to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Oechslin , H. -Th. Janka

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