A living theory catalogue for fast radio bursts

E Platts, A Weltman, A Walters, SP Tendulkar… - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
At present, we have almost as many theories to explain Fast Radio Bursts as we have Fast
Radio Bursts observed. This landscape will be changing rapidly with CHIME/FRB, recently …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

Multimessenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant

T Dietrich, MW Coughlin, PTH Pang, M Bulla, J Heinzel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Observations of neutron-star mergers with distinct messengers, including gravitational
waves and electromagnetic signals, can be used to study the behavior of matter denser than …

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

MM Kasliwal, E Nakar, LP Singer, DL Kaplan, DO Cook… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field
gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an …

Compact radio emission indicates a structured jet was produced by a binary neutron star merger

G Ghirlanda, OS Salafia, Z Paragi, M Giroletti, J Yang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The binary neutron star merger event GW170817 was detected through both
electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves. Its afterglow emission may have been …

Design and operation of the ATLAS transient science server

KW Smith, SJ Smartt, DR Young, JL Tonry… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two
0.5 m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 …

Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
The coalescence of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground …

SkyMapper Southern Survey: second data release (DR2)

CA Onken, C Wolf, MS Bessell, SW Chang… - Publications of the …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present the second data release (DR2) of the SkyMapper Southern Survey, a
hemispheric survey carried out with the SkyMapper Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory …

Systematic opacity calculations for kilonovae

M Tanaka, D Kato, G Gaigalas… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Coalescence of neutron stars (NSs) gives rise to kilonova, thermal emission powered by
radioactive decays of freshly synthesized r-process nuclei. Although observational …