A peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst from a double neutron star merger progenitor

Authors :: B.-B. Zhang
B. Zhang
H. Sun
W.-H. Lei
H. Gao
Y. Li
L. Shao
Y. Zhao
Y.-D. Hu
H.-J. Lü
X.-F. Wu
X.-L. Fan
G. Wang
A. J. Castro-Tirado
S. Zhang
B.-Y. Yu
Y.-Y. Cao
E.-W. Liang
Source :: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2018)
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Nature Portfolio, 2018.
Abstract: A short-duration gamma-ray burst was detected along with a double neutron start merger gravitational wave by LIGO-Virgo on August 17th 2017. Here, the authors show that the fluence and spectral peak energy of this event fall into the lower portion of the distribution of known short-duration gamma-ray bursts.

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