Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 848, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8f41
Keywords
gamma-ray burst: individual (170817A)
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- NASA [NNM13AA43C, NNM11AA01A]
- NASA
- NASA through the Fermi -GBM
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) via the Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) [50 QV 0301]
- Bundesministeriums fur Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) through DLR [50 OG 1101]
- NSF [PHY-1505373]
- Science Foundation Ireland [12/IP/1288]
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On 2017 August 17 at 12:41:06 UTC the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detected and triggered on the short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 170817A. Approximately 1.7. s prior to this GRB, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory triggered on a binary compact merger candidate associated with the GRB. This is the first unambiguous coincident observation of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from a single astrophysical source and marks the start of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. We report the GBM observations and analysis of this ordinary short GRB, which extraordinarily confirms that at least some short GRBs are produced by binary compact mergers.
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