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 …

The supernova–gamma-ray burst connection

SE Woosley, JS Bloom - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006‏ - annualreviews.org
Observations show that at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) happen simultaneously
with core-collapse supernovae (SNe), thus linking by a common thread nature's two …

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 …

GW170817, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and the neutron star maximum mass

M Ruiz, SL Shapiro, A Tsokaros - Physical Review D, 2018‏ - APS
Recent numerical simulations in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD)
provide useful constraints for the interpretation of the GW170817 discovery. Combining the …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. III. Optical and UV spectra of a blue kilonova from fast polar ejecta

M Nicholl, E Berger, D Kasen, BD Metzger… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical and ultraviolet spectra of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a
gravitational-wave (GW) source, the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Spectra were …

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 …

Dynamical mass ejection from binary neutron star mergers

D Radice, F Galeazzi, J Lippuner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
We present fully general-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with a
temperature and composition dependent nuclear equation of state. We study the dynamical …

Short GRB host galaxies. II. A legacy sample of redshifts, stellar population properties, and implications for their neutron star merger origins

AE Nugent, WF Fong, Y Dong, J Leja… - The Astrophysical …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present the stellar population properties of 69 short gamma-ray burst (GRB) host
galaxies, representing the largest uniformly modeled sample to date. Using the Prospector …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VI. Radio constraints on a relativistic jet and predictions for late-time …

KD Alexander, E Berger, W Fong… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter
Array (ALMA) radio observations of GW170817, the first Laser Interferometer Gravitational …