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

Published:2019-03 Issue:6430 Volume:363 Page:968-971
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Ghirlanda G.¹²³,Salafia O. S.¹²³,Paragi Z.⁴,Giroletti M.⁵,Yang J.⁶⁷,Marcote B.⁴,Blanchard J.⁴,Agudo I.⁸,An T.⁹,Bernardini M. G.¹⁰,Beswick R.¹¹,Branchesi M.¹²¹³,Campana S.¹,Casadio C.¹⁴,Chassande-Mottin E.¹⁵,Colpi M.²³,Covino S.¹,D’Avanzo P.¹,D’Elia V.¹⁶,Frey S.¹⁷,Gawronski M.¹⁸,Ghisellini G.¹,Gurvits L. I.⁴¹⁹,Jonker P. G.²⁰²¹,van Langevelde H. J.⁴²²,Melandri A.¹,Moldon J.¹¹,Nava L.¹,Perego A.³,Perez-Torres M. A.⁸²³,Reynolds C.²⁴,Salvaterra R.²⁵,Tagliaferri G.¹,Venturi T.⁵,Vergani S. D.²⁶,Zhang M.²⁷²⁸

Affiliation:

1. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy.

2. Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, IT-20126 Milano, Italy.

3. Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy.

4. Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), Oude Hoogeveensedijk 4, 7991 PD Dwingeloo, Netherlands.

5. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica–Istituto di Radioastronomia, via Gobetti 101, I40129, Bologna, Italia.

6. Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, SE-439 92, Sweden.

7. Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650216 Kunming, Yunnan, China.

8. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008, Granada, Spain.

9. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 200030 Shanghai, China.

10. Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Universitè de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institute National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules (CNRS/IN2P3), place Eugéne Bataillon, F–34085 Montpellier, France.

11. Electronic Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network/Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-MERLIN/VLBI) National Facility, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

12. Gran Sasso Science Institute, Viale F. Crispi 7, I-67100, L’Aquila, Italy.

13. Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, INFN, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy.

14. Max Planck Institute fur Radioastronomie, Auf dem Huegel 69, Bonn D-53121, Germany.

15. AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC), Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives/ Institute for Research on the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (CEA/IRFU), Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.

16. Space Science Data Center, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Via del Politecnico, 00133, Roma, Italy.

17. Konkoly Observatory, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA) Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 15-17, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary.

18. Centre for Astronomy, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland.

19. Department of Astrodynamics and Space Missions, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, Netherlands.

20. Space Research Organisation of the Netherlands (SRON), Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands.

21. Department of Astrophysics, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud University, Post Office Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.

22. Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, Post Office Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.

23. Departamento de Física Teórica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50019, Spain.

24. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Astronomy and Space Science, PO Box 1130, Bentley WA 6102, Australia.

25. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica (IASF), via E. Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy.

26. Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation (GEPI) Observatoire de Paris, CNRS UMR 8111, Meudon, France.

27. Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 150 Science 1-Street, Urumqi 831001, China.

28. Key Laboratory for Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2 West Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China.

Abstract

Merging produced a structured jet The binary neutron star merger event GW170817 was observed with gravitational waves and across the electromagnetic spectrum. However, the physical processes that produced that emission remain poorly understood, particularly the late-time x-ray and radio emission. Ghirlanda et al. observed the radio afterglow with an interferometric array of 32 radio telescopes spread across the globe. The size and position of the radio source are not compatible with a uniformly expanding cocoon, as some have suggested. Instead, the data indicate that GW170817 produced a structured jet of material that escaped the surrounding ejecta and is now expanding into the interstellar medium at relativistic speeds. Science , this issue p. 968

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

H2020 Marie SkÅodowska-Curie Actions

H2020 Research Infrastructures

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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