Authors
Adam Goldstein, Péter Veres, E Burns, MS Briggs, R Hamburg, D Kocevski, CA Wilson-Hodge, RD Preece, S Poolakkil, OJ Roberts, CM Hui, V Connaughton, J Racusin, A von Kienlin, T Dal Canton, N Christensen, T Littenberg, K Siellez, L Blackburn, J Broida, E Bissaldi, WH Cleveland, MH Gibby, MM Giles, RM Kippen, S McBreen, J McEnery, CA Meegan, WS Paciesas, M Stanbro
Publication date
2017/10/16
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume
848
Issue
2
Pages
L14
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
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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