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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

Gravitational wave (GW) and short Gamma Ray Burst (sGRB) observations provide us with complementary views of compact object mergers. The paucity of binary neutron star merger (BNS) detections in the latest LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Keerthi Kunnumkai , Antonella Palmese , Brendan O'Connor , Amanda Farah , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

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

The coalescence of binary neutron stars (BNS) is a prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, offering a dual observational window into the Universe. Lowering the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Jin-Hui Rao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang

The luminosity function of short Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is modelled by using the available catalogue data of all short GRBs (sGRBs) detected till October, 2017. The luminosities are estimated via the `pseudo-redshifts' obtained from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-18 Debdutta Paul

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

In the upcoming gravitational wave (GW) observing runs, identifying host galaxies is crucial as it provides essential redshift information and enables the use of GW events as standard sirens. However, pinpointing host galaxies remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Mankeun Jeong , Myungshin Im

We present a study aimed at quantifying the detectability of radio counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with total masses $\lesssim 3$\,M$_{\odot}$, which may form neutron star (NS) remnants. We focus on mergers localized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Kara Merfeld , Alessandra Corsi

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 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

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 gravitational-wave (GW) events, produced by the coalescence of binary neutron-stars (BNS), can be treated as the standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe, if their redshifts could be determined from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Jiming Yu , Haoran Song , Shunke Ai , He Gao , Fayin Wang , Yu Wang , Youjun Lu , Wenjuan Fang , Wen Zhao

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

The cosmic variance on the star formation history may lead to bias to the merger rate density estimation of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers by the compact binary population synthesis. In this paper, we take the advantage of the large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Jie Wang , Zhen Jiang , Qingbo Chu , Xianghao Ma

To test whether the short GRB rates, redshift distribution and host galaxies are consistent with current theoretical predictions, we use avery large database of population synthesis calculations to examine BH-NS and NS-NS merger rates in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 R. O'Shaughnessy , V. Kalogera , K. Belczynski

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed by {\it Swift} are potentially revealing the first insight into cataclysmic compact object mergers. To ultimately acquire a fundamental understanding of these events requires pan-spectral observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 David Coward , Eric Howell , Tsvi Piran , Giulia Stratta , Marica Branchesi , Omer Bromberg , Bruce Gendre , Ronald Burman , Dafne Guetta

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 recent multi-messenger discovery of binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 showed that $\gamma$-ray emission in short GRBs is wider than the central energetic narrow cone, and weakly expands out to tens of degrees. Here we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-21 Nihar Gupte , Imre Bartos

We investigate the prospects for joint low-latency gravitational wave (GW) detection and prompt electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of coalescing binary neutron stars (BNSs). For BNS mergers associated with short duration gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Q. Chu , E. J. Howell , A. Rowlinson , H. Gao , B. Zhang , S. J. Tingay , M. Boer , L. Wen

We study the properties of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), based on the assumption that they are all connected to the binary neutron star mergers, whose formation mechanism contains a large amount of uncertainty. In particular, the merger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Shin'ichiro Ando
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