First multimessenger observations of a neutron star merger

R Margutti, R Chornock - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and
light.▪ GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves.▪ …

The electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers

E Nakar - Physics Reports, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Mergers of binaries consisting of two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star, offer a
unique opportunity to study a range of physical and astrophysical processes using two …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, AT Deller, O Gottlieb, E Nakar, G Hallinan… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
The binary neutron-star merger GW170817 was accompanied by radiation across the
electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of about 41 …

Modeling GW170817 based on numerical relativity and its implications

M Shibata, S Fujibayashi, K Hotokezaka, K Kiuchi… - Physical Review D, 2017‏ - APS
Gravitational-wave observation together with a large number of electromagnetic
observations shows that the source of the latest gravitational-wave event, GW170817 …

The binary neutron star event LIGO/Virgo GW170817 160 days after merger: synchrotron emission across the electromagnetic spectrum

R Margutti, KD Alexander, X **e, 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 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 …