A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

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作者
Hallinan, G. [1 ]
Corsi, A.
Mooley, K. P. [2 ,3 ]
Hotokezaka, K. [4 ,5 ]
Nakar, E. [6 ]
Kasliwal, M. M. [1 ]
Kaplan, D. L. [7 ]
Frail, D. A. [8 ]
Myers, S. T. [8 ]
Murphy, T. [9 ,10 ]
De, K. [1 ]
Dobie, D. [9 ,10 ,11 ]
Allison, J. R. [9 ,12 ]
Bannister, K. W. [11 ]
Bhalerao, V. [13 ]
Chandra, P. [14 ]
Clarke, T. E. [15 ]
Giacintucci, S. [15 ]
Ho, A. Y. Q. [1 ]
Horesh, A. [16 ]
Kassim, N. E. [15 ]
Kulkarni, S. R. [1 ]
Lenc, E. [9 ,10 ]
Lockman, F. J. [17 ]
Lynch, C. [9 ,10 ]
Nichols, D. [18 ]
Nissanke, S. [18 ]
Palliyaguru, N.
Peters, W. M. [15 ]
Piran, T. [16 ]
Rana, J. [19 ]
Sadler, E. M. [9 ,10 ]
Singer, L. P. [20 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Texas Tech Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Lubbock, TX 79409 USA
[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Astrophys, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[4] Flatiron Inst, Ctr Computat Astrophys, 162 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010 USA
[5] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[6] Tel Aviv Univ, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
[7] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[8] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Socorro, NM 87801 USA
[9] Univ Sydney, Sydney Inst Astron, Sch Phys, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[10] Australian Res Council, Ctr Excellence All Sky Astrophys CAASTRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
[11] Commonwealth Sci & Ind Res Org, Astron & Space Sci, Australia Telescope Natl Facil, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
[12] Australian Res Council, Ctr Excellence All Sky Astrophys 3 Dimens ASTRO 3, Epping, NSW, Australia
[13] Indian Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Mumbai 400076, Maharashtra, India
[14] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Natl Ctr Radio Astrophys, Pune Univ Campus, Ganeshkhind Pune 411007, India
[15] Naval Res Lab, Remote Sensing Div, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[16] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Racah Inst Phys, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
[17] Green Bank Observ, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA
[18] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Inst Math Astrophys & Particle Phys, NL-6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
[19] Inter Univ, Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune Univ Campus, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[20] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astroparticle Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 以色列科学基金会;
关键词
GAMMA-RAY BURST; AFTERGLOW; EMISSION; MASS;
D O I
10.1126/science.aap9855
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Gravitational waves have been detected from a binary neutron star merger event, GW170817. The detection of electromagnetic radiation from the same source has shown that the merger occurred in the outskirts of the galaxy NGC 4993, at a distance of 40 megaparsecs from Earth. We report the detection of a counterpart radio source that appears 16 days after the event, allowing us to diagnose the energetics and environment of the merger. The observed radio emission can be explained by either a collimated ultrarelativistic jet, viewed off-axis, or a cocoon of mildly relativistic ejecta. Within 100 days of the merger, the radio light curves will enable observers to distinguish between these models, and the angular velocity and geometry of the debris will be directly measurable by very long baseline interferometry.
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页数:5
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