Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-21-2019
Publication Title
Astrophysical Journal Letters
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Volume
881
Issue
2
First page number:
1
Last page number:
5
Abstract
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo scientific collaboration (LVC) detected two binary neutron star (BNS) merger candidates, S190425z and S190426c. The Fermi-Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) observed 55.6% (for S190425z) and 100% (for S190426c) of the probability regions of both events at the respective merger times, but no gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected in either case. The derived luminosity upper limits suggest that a short GRB similar to GRB 170817A would not be detectable for both cases due to their distances, which are larger than that of GW170817. Assuming that the jet profile obtained from GW170817/GRB 170817A is quasi-universal for all BNS–GRB associations, we derive that the viewing angles of S190425z and S190426c should be... (see abstract in full article).
Disciplines
Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravity | Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy
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324 KB
Language
English
Repository Citation
Song, H.,
Ai, S.,
Wang, M.,
Xing, N.,
Gao, H.,
Zhang, B.
(2019).
Viewing Angle Constraints on S190425z and S190426c and the Joint Gravitational-wave/Gamma-Ray Detection Fractions for Binary Neutron Star Mergers.
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 881(2),
1-5.
American Astronomical Society.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3921
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