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An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A

A. Goldstein
(
- USRA, Huntsville
)
,
P. Veres
(
- U. Alabama, Huntsville
)
,
E. Burns
(
- NASA, Goddard
)
,
M.S. Briggs
(
- U. Alabama, Huntsville
)
,
R. Hamburg
(
- U. Alabama, Huntsville
)

Oct 16, 2017

14 pages

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Astrophys.J.Lett. 848 (2017) 2, L14

Published: Oct 16, 2017

e-Print:

1710.05446 [astro-ph.HE]

DOI:

10.3847/2041-8213/aa8f41

Experiments:

FERMI-GBM

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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.

gamma-ray burst: individual
gamma ray: burst
binary: compact
radiation: electromagnetic
gravitational radiation
LIGO
GLAST
VIRGO
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