Neutron star mergers and how to study them

E Burns - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
Neutron star mergers are the canonical multimessenger events: they have been observed
through photons for half a century, gravitational waves since 2017, and are likely to be …

High-energy multimessenger transient astrophysics

K Murase, I Bartos - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The recent discoveries of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and gravitational waves from
astrophysical objects have led to a new era of multimessenger astrophysics. In particular …

Gigaelectronvolt emission from a compact binary merger

A Mei, B Banerjee, G Oganesyan, OS Salafia… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
An energetic γ-ray burst (GRB), GRB 211211A, was observed on 11 December 2021,.
Despite its long duration, typically associated with bursts produced by the collapse of …

The binary neutron star event LIGO/Virgo GW170817 160 days after merger: synchrotron emission across the electromagnetic spectrum

R Margutti, KD Alexander, X Xie, L Sironi… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report deep Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and
Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the binary neutron star event …

A long-lived neutron star merger remnant in GW170817: constraints and clues from X-ray observations

L Piro, E Troja, B Zhang, G Ryan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Multimessenger observations of GW170817 have not conclusively established whether the
merger remnant is a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS). We show that a long-lived …

Fast radio bursts from magnetars born in binary neutron star mergers and accretion induced collapse

B Margalit, E Berger, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently born magnetars are promising candidates for the engines powering fast radio
bursts (FRBs). The focus thus far has been placed on millisecond magnetars born in rare …

Ab-initio general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations of long-lived neutron star merger remnants to neutrino cooling timescales

D Radice, S Bernuzzi - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform the first 3D ab-initio general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics of a
long-lived neutron star merger remnant spanning a fraction of its cooling timescale. We find …

MAGIC observations of the nearby short gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B

VA Acciari, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The coincident detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation
spanning the radio to MeV gamma-ray bands provided the first direct evidence that short …

A long-lived remnant neutron star after GW170817 inferred from its associated kilonova

YW Yu, LD Liu, ZG Dai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The successful joint observation of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 and its
multiwavelength electromagnetic counterparts enabled us to witness a definite merger event …

Long-lived remnants from binary neutron star mergers

D Radice, A Perego, S Bernuzzi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Massive neutron stars (NSs) with lifetimes of at least several seconds are expected to be the
result of a sizable fraction of NS mergers. We study their formation using a large set of …