25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
...between the two could be found. The search concentrated on looking for gravitational wave signals associated with 41 gamma-ray bursts during a period between September 2015 and January 2016. While it might seem a particularly short timescale in which...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... later, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope identified a brief, weak burst of high-energy... of the true nature of these apparently associated gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and suggest that they are therefore unrelated...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
..., it has since been questioned by other scientists if the two events are actually linked. Short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) are a class of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) with a duration of 2 seconds and they undergo two different phases; a short prompt phase...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
... of supernovae and the appearance of kilonovae – a phenomena that occurs when two neutron stars merge. Identified by a short gamma ray burst lasting just one-tenth of a second, and shining 1000 times brighter than a nova, the true nature...
11 October 2016
GRB afterglow observed by ALMA for the first time
... for the first time used the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) to study the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) – an event classed as one of the most violent explosions in the Universe. GRB’s are somewhat of an enigma; much...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
... merger of binary neutron stars, although not everyone agreed on this theory. For GW170817, the gamma-ray burst was detected in gamma-rays, X-rays, optical light and infrared light, thus spanning a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The...
