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SUBMITTER: Zhang BB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5792494 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang B-B BB Zhang B B Sun H H Lei W-H WH Gao H H Li Y Y Shao L L Zhao Y Y Hu Y-D YD Lü H-J HJ Wu X-F XF Fan X-L XL Wang G G Castro-Tirado A J AJ Zhang S S Yu B-Y BY Cao Y-Y YY Liang E-W EW
Nature communications 20180131 1
Double neutron star (DNS) merger events are promising candidates of short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) progenitors as well as high-frequency gravitational wave (GW) emitters. On August 17, 2017, such a coinciding event was detected by both the LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave detector network as GW170817 and Gamma-Ray Monitor on board NASA's Fermi Space Telescope as GRB 170817A. Here, we show that the fluence and spectral peak energy of this sGRB fall into the lower portion of the distributions of known ...[more]