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 …

[HTML][HTML] Binary stars in the new millennium

X Chen, Z Liu, Z Han - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to
astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of gravitational waves from two neutron star–black hole coalescences

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org

Host galaxy properties and offset distributions of fast radio bursts: implications for their progenitors

KE Heintz, JX Prochaska, S Simha… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast
radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder …

First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: A tale of two elements–chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

JP Naiman, A Pillepich, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The distribution of elements in galaxies provides a wealth of information about their
production sites and their subsequent mixing into the interstellar medium. Here we …

Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

E Pian, P D'Avanzo, S Benetti, M Branchesi, E Brocato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable
phenomena: a short burst of γ-rays, a gravitational-wave signal, and a transient optical–near …

Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the
Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was …

Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

Progenitors of gravitational wave mergers: binary evolution with the stellar grid-based code ComBinE

MU Kruckow, TM Tauris, N Langer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The first gravitational wave detections of mergers between black holes and neutron stars
represent a remarkable new regime of high-energy transient astrophysics. The signals …

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 …