The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets

P Kumar, B Zhang - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide a comprehensive review of major developments in our understanding of gamma-
ray bursts, with particular focus on the discoveries made within the last fifteen years when …

Radio properties of tidal disruption events

KD Alexander, S van Velzen, A Horesh… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption
of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution …

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 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 radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

G Hallinan, A Corsi, KP Mooley, K Hotokezaka… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Gravitational waves have been detected from a binary neutron star merger event,
GW170817. The detection of electromagnetic radiation from the same source has shown …

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 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 …

A mildly relativistic wide-angle outflow in the neutron-star merger event GW170817

KP Mooley, E Nakar, K Hotokezaka, G Hallinan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
GW170817 was the first gravitational-wave detection of a binary neutron-star merger. It was
accompanied by radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy …

A deep Chandra X-ray study of neutron star coalescence GW170817

D Haggard, M Nynka, JJ Ruan… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report Chandra observations of GW170817, the first neutron star–neutron star merger
discovered by the joint LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, and the first direct detection of …

The physics of gamma-ray bursts

T Piran - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2004 - APS
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB's), short and intense pulses of low-energy γ rays, have fascinated
astronomers and astrophysicists since their unexpected discovery in the late sixties. During …