Compact radio emission indicates a structured jet was produced by a binary neutron star merger
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019
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 by using a global network of 32 radio telescopes. The apparent source size is constrained to be smaller than 2.5 milli-arc seconds 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.
Författare
G. Ghirlanda
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
O. S. Salafia
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Z. Paragi
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
M. Giroletti
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
Jun Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chalmers, Rymd-, geo- och miljövetenskap, Onsala rymdobservatorium
B. Marcote
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
J. Blanchard
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
I. Agudo
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)
T. An
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
M. G. Bernardini
Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
R. J. Beswick
University of Manchester
M. Branchesi
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
S. Campana
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
C. Casadio
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
E. Chassande-Mottin
Université Paris Diderot
M. Colpi
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
S. Covino
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
P. D'Avanzo
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
V. D'Elia
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
S. Frey
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia
M. P. Gawroński
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika
G. Ghisellini
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
L. I. Gurvits
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
TU Delft
P. G. Jonker
Radboud Universiteit
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
H. J. van Langevelde
Universiteit Leiden
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE)
A. Melandri
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
J. Moldon
University of Manchester
L. Nava
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
A. Perego
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
M.A. Pérez-Torres
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (IAA)
Universidad de Zaragoza
C. Reynolds
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
R. Salvaterra
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
G. Tagliaferri
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
T. Venturi
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
S. D. Vergani
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
M. Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Science
0036-8075 (ISSN) 1095-9203 (eISSN)
Vol. 363 6430 968-971Ämneskategorier
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
DOI
10.1126/science.aau8815
PubMed
30792360