The structure of gamma ray burst jets

OS Salafia, G Ghirlanda - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to relativistic bulk motion, the structure and orientation of gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets
have a fundamental role in determining how they appear. The recent discovery of the …

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 …

Multi-messenger astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars as probed by ground-based gravitational wave detectors: from present to future

A Corsi, L Barsotti, E Berti, M Evans, I Gupta… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors LIGO and Virgo have enabled the birth
of multi-messenger GW astronomy via the detection of GWs from merging stellar-mass black …

Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers in the O4 run

A Colombo, OS Salafia, F Gabrielli… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present realistic expectations for the number and properties of neutron star binary
mergers to be detected as multi-messenger sources during the upcoming fourth observing …

Evidence for X-ray emission in excess to the jet-afterglow decay 3.5 yr after the binary neutron star merger GW 170817: a new emission component

A Hajela, R Margutti, JS Bright… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the first∼ 3 yrs after the binary neutron star merger event GW 170817, the radio and X-
ray radiation has been dominated by emission from a structured relativistic off-axis jet …

The possibility of modeling the very high energy afterglow of GRB 221009A in a wind environment

J Ren, Y Wang, LL Zhang, ZG Dai - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we model the dynamics and radiation physics of the rarity event GRB 221009A
afterglow in detail. By introducing a top-hat jet that propagates in an environment dominated …

Robust features of off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglow light curves

P Beniamini, R Gill, J Granot - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ultra-relativistic outflows powering gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) acquire angular structure
through their interaction with external material. They are often characterized by a compact …

GW170817 4.5 Yr After Merger: Dynamical Ejecta Afterglow Constraints

A Balasubramanian, A Corsi, KP Mooley… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
GW170817 is the first binary neutron star (NS) merger detected in gravitational waves (GWs)
and photons, and so far remains the only GW event of its class with a definitive …

The late afterglow of GW170817/GRB 170817A: a large viewing angle and the shift of the Hubble constant to a value more consistent with the local measurements

YY Wang, SP Tang, ZP Jin, YZ Fan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The multimessenger data of neutron star merger events are promising for constraining the
Hubble constant. So far, GW170817 is still the unique gravitational wave event with …

Analytic model for off-axis GRB afterglow images – geometry measurement and implications for measuring H0

T Govreen-Segal, E Nakar - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present an analytic model for measuring the jet core angle (θ c) and viewing angle (θ
obs) of off-axis gamma-ray bursts independently of the jet angular structure outside of the …