A Review of SGRBs Originating from Binary Neutron Star Mergers (IMAGE)

W. M. Keck Observatory

A Review of SGRBs Originating from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Caption

An artist's impression of how GRB181123B compares to other short gamma-ray bursts. It is the second-most distant short gamma-ray burst to ever be detected, and the most distant to have its optical afterglow captured. Except when they are detected by gravitational wave observatories, the gamma-ray bursts can only be detected from Earth when their jets of energy are pointed towards us.

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International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Pollard/K. Paterson & W. Fong (Northwestern University); Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin

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