Short-duration gamma-ray bursts

E Berger - Annual review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution with a separation between
the short-and long-duration bursts at about 2 s. The progenitors of long GRBs have been …

The electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers

E Nakar - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Mergers of binaries consisting of two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star, offer a
unique opportunity to study a range of physical and astrophysical processes using two …

The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

E Troja, L Piro, H Van Eerten, RT Wollaeger, M Im… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions—or mergers—of two neutron
stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

Optical superluminal motion measurement in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, J Anderson, W Lu - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The afterglow of the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 gave evidence for a structured
relativistic jet,,,–and a link,, between such mergers and short gamma-ray bursts …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V. Rising X-ray emission from an off-axis jet

R Margutti, E Berger, W Fong, C Guidorzi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V.
Rising X-Ray Emission from an Off-axis Jet - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home …

A decade of short-duration gamma-ray burst broadband afterglows: energetics, circumburst densities, and jet opening angles

W Fong, E Berger, R Margutti… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive catalog and analysis of broadband afterglow observations for
103 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), comprised of all short GRBs from 2004 …

Millisecond magnetar birth connects FRB 121102 to superluminous supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts

BD Metzger, E Berger, B Margalit - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Subarcsecond localization of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 revealed its
coincidence with a dwarf host galaxy and a steady (" quiescent") nonthermal radio source …

Gamma-ray burst afterglows in the multimessenger era: numerical models and closure relations

G Ryan, H Van Eerten, L Piro… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with gravitational wave events are, and will likely
continue to be, viewed at a larger inclination than GRBs without gravitational wave …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VI. Radio constraints on a relativistic jet and predictions for late-time …

KD Alexander, E Berger, W Fong… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter
Array (ALMA) radio observations of GW170817, the first Laser Interferometer Gravitational …