EXPLORING SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AS GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE STANDARD SIRENS

Recent observations support the hypothesis that a large fraction of "short-hard" gamma-ray bursts (SHBs) are associated with the inspiral and merger of compact binaries. Since gravitational-wave (GW) measurements of well-localized inspiraling binaries can measure absolute source distances,...

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Main Authors: Hughes, Scott A. (Contributor), Nissanke, Samaya M. (Contributor), Holz, Daniel E. (Author), Dalal, Neal (Author), Sievers, Jonathan L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics ; American Astronomical Society., 2011-02-16T16:29:38Z.
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