Nature Communications (Jan 2018)
A peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst from a double neutron star merger progenitor
- 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
Affiliations
- B.-B. Zhang
- School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University
- B. Zhang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada
- H. Sun
- National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- W.-H. Lei
- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- H. Gao
- Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University
- Y. Li
- Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University
- L. Shao
- Department of Space Sciences and Astronomy, Hebei Normal University
- Y. Zhao
- Department of Astronomy, University of Florida
- Y.-D. Hu
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
- H.-J. Lü
- Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Guangxi University
- X.-F. Wu
- Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- X.-L. Fan
- School of Physics and Electronics Information, Hubei University of Education
- G. Wang
- Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN)
- A. J. Castro-Tirado
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
- S. Zhang
- Department of Space Sciences and Astronomy, Hebei Normal University
- B.-Y. Yu
- Department of Space Sciences and Astronomy, Hebei Normal University
- Y.-Y. Cao
- Department of Space Sciences and Astronomy, Hebei Normal University
- E.-W. Liang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Guangxi University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02847-3
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
A short-duration gamma-ray burst was detected along with a double neutron start merger gravitational wave by LIGO-Virgo on August 17th 2017. Here, the authors show that the fluence and spectral peak energy of this event fall into the lower portion of the distribution of known short-duration gamma-ray bursts.
