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The Panchromatic Afterglow of GW170817: The full uniform dataset, modeling, comparison with previous results and implications | Sphesihle Makhathini
; Kunal P. Mooley
; Murray Brightman
; Kenta Hotokezaka
; AJ Nayana
; Huib T. Intema
; Dougal Dobie
; E. Lenc
; Daniel A. Perley
; Christoffer Fremling
; Javier Moldon
; Davide Lazzati
; David L. Kaplan
; Arvind Balasubramanian
; Ian Brown
; Dario Carbone
; Poonam Chandra
; Alessandra Corsi
; Fernando Camilo
; Adam T. Deller
; Dale A. Frail
; Tara Murphy
; Eric J. Murphy
; Ehud Nakar
; Oleg Smirnov
; Robert Beswick
; Rob Fender
; Gregg Hallinan
; Ian Heywood
; Mansi M. Kasliwal
; Bomee Lee
; Wenbin Lu
; Javed Rana
; S. J. Perkins
; Sarah V. White
; Gyula I. Jozsa
; Benjamin Hugo
; Peter Kamphuis
; | Date: |
3 Jun 2020 | Abstract: | We present the full panchromatic afterglow light curve data of GW170817,
including new radio data as well as archival optical and X-ray data, between
0.5 and 940 days post-merger. By compiling all archival data, and reprocessing
a subset of it, we have ensured that the panchromatic dataset is uniform and
therefore immune to the differences in data processing or flux determination
methods used by different groups. Simple power-law fits to the uniform
afterglow light curve indicate a $t^{0.86pm0.04}$ rise, a $t^{-1.90pm0.12}$
decline, and a peak occurring at $155pm4$ days. The afterglow is optically
thin throughout its evolution, consistent with a single spectral index
($-0.569pm0.002$) across all epochs. This gives a precise and updated estimate
of the electron power-law index, $p=2.138pm0.004$. By studying the diffuse
X-ray emission from the host galaxy, we place a conservative upper limit on the
hot ionized ISM density, $<$0.01 cm$^{-3}$, consistent with previous afterglow
studies. Using the late-time afterglow data we rule out any long-lived neutron
star remnant having magnetic field strength between 10$^{10.4}$ G and 10$^{16}$
G. Our fits to the afterglow data using an analytical model that includes VLBI
proper motion from Mooley et al (2018), and a structured jet model that ignores
the proper motion, indicates that the proper motion measurement needs to be
considered while seeking an accurate estimate of the viewing angle. | Source: | arXiv, 2006.2382 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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