A luminous blue kilonova and an off-axis jet from a compact binary merger at z = 0.1341

E. Troja; G. Ryan; L. Piro; H. van Eerten; S. B. Cenko; Y. Yoon; S.-K. Lee; M. Im; T. Sakamoto; P. Gatkine; A. Kutyrev; S. Veilleux

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06558-7

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

A luminous blue kilonova and an off-axis jet from a compact binary merger at z = 0.1341

E. Troja,
G. Ryan,
L. Piro,
H. van Eerten,
S. B. Cenko,
Y. Yoon,
S.-K. Lee,
M. Im,
T. Sakamoto,
P. Gatkine,
A. Kutyrev,
S. Veilleux

Affiliations

E. Troja: Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
G. Ryan: Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland
L. Piro: INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali
H. van Eerten: Department of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down
S. B. Cenko: Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Y. Yoon: Center for the Exploration for the Origin of the Universe, Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
S.-K. Lee: Center for the Exploration for the Origin of the Universe, Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
M. Im: Center for the Exploration for the Origin of the Universe, Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University
T. Sakamoto: Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University
P. Gatkine: Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
A. Kutyrev: Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
S. Veilleux: Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06558-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

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A faint gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) has been recently detected in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW 170817. Here, the authors report that another faint short GRB at a cosmological distance (GRB150101B) and its late time emission are analogous to the neutron star merger event GRB 170817A.

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