Compact radio emission indicates a structured jet was produced by a binary neutron star merger

Autor: Ghirlanda, G., Salafia, O. S., Paragi, Z., Giroletti, M., Yang, J., Marcote, B., Blanchard, J., Agudo, I., An, T., Bernardini, M. G., Beswick, R., Branchesi, M., Campana, S., Casadio, C., Chassande-Mottin, E., Colpi, M., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Frey, S., Gawronski, M., Ghisellini, G., Gurvits, L. I., Jonker, P. G., van Langevelde, H. J., Melandri, A., Moldon, J., Nava, L., Perego, A., Perez-Torres, M. A., Reynolds, C., Salvaterra, R., Tagliaferri, G., Venturi, T., Vergani, S. D., Zhang, M.
Rok vydání: 2018
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8815
Popis: The binary neutron star merger event GW170817 was detected through both electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves. Its afterglow emission may have been produced by either a narrow relativistic jet or an isotropic outflow. High spatial resolution measurements of the source size and displacement can discriminate between these scenarios. We present Very Long Baseline Interferometry observations, performed 207.4 days after the merger, using a global network of 32 radio telescopes. The apparent source size is constrained to be smaller than 2.5 milliarcseconds at the 90% confidence level. This excludes the isotropic outflow scenario, which would have produced a larger apparent size, indicating that GW170817 produced a structured relativistic jet. Our rate calculations show that at least 10% of neutron star mergers produce such a jet.
Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science , (2019-02-21), doi: 10.1126/science.aau8815
Databáze: arXiv
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