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Insight-HXMT observations of the first binary neutron star merger GW170817 - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy

  • ️Zou, ChangLin
  • ️Mon Oct 16 2017

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Finding the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of binary compact star merger, especially the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, is critically important for gravitational wave (GW) astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics. On Aug. 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Fermi/GBM independently triggered the first BNS merger, GW170817, and its high energy EM counterpart, GRB 170817A, respectively, resulting in a global observation campaign covering gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, optical, IR, radio as well as neutrinos. The High Energy X-ray telescope (HE) onboard Insight-HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) is the unique high-energy gamma-ray telescope that monitored the entire GW localization area and especially the optical counterpart (SSS17a/AT2017gfo) with very large collection area (~1000 cm2) and microsecond time resolution in 0.2-5 MeV. In addition, Insight-HXMT quickly implemented a Target of Opportunity (ToO) observation to scan the GW localization area for potential X-ray emission from the GW source. Although Insight-HXMT did not detect any significant high energy (0.2-5 MeV) radiation from GW170817, its observation helped to confirm the unexpected weak and soft nature of GRB 170817A. Meanwhile, Insight-HXMT/HE provides one of the most stringent constraints (~10‒7 to 10‒6 erg/cm2/s) for both GRB170817A and any other possible precursor or extended emissions in 0.2-5 MeV, which help us to better understand the properties of EM radiation from this BNS merger. Therefore the observation of Insight-HXMT constitutes an important chapter in the full context of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observation of this historical GW event.

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    TiPei Li, ShaoLin Xiong, ShuangNan Zhang, FangJun Lu, LiMing Song, XueLei Cao, Zhi Chang, Gang Chen, TianXiang Chen, Yong Chen, YuPeng Chen, Wei Cui, WeiWei Cui, YongWei Dong, YuanYuan Du, GuanHua Gao, He Gao, Min Gao, MingYu Ge, YuDong Gu, Ju Guan, ChengCheng Guo, DaWei Han, Wei Hu, Yue Huang, Jia Huo, ShuMei Jia, LuHua Jiang, WeiChun Jiang, Jing Jin, Bing Li, ChengKui Li, Gang Li, MaoShun Li, Wei Li, Xian Li, XiaoBo Li, XuFang Li, YanGuo Li, ZiJian Li, ZhengWei Li, XiaoHua Liang, JinYuan Liao, CongZhan Liu, HongWei Liu, ShaoZhen Liu, XiaoJing Liu, Yuan Liu, Bo Lu, XueFeng Lu, Tao Luo, Xiang Ma, Bin Meng, Yi Nang, JianYin Nie, Ge Ou, JinLu Qu, Na Sai, Liang Sun, Yin Tan, Lian Tao, WenHui Tao, YouLi Tuo, GuoFeng Wang, HuanYu Wang, Juan Wang, WenShuai Wang, YuSa Wang, XiangYang Wen, BoBing Wu, Mei Wu, GuangCheng Xiao, He Xu, YuPeng Xu, LinLi Yan, JiaWei Yang, Sheng Yang, YanJi Yang, AiMei Zhang, ChunLei Zhang, ChengMo Zhang, Fan Zhang, HongMei Zhang, Juan Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Shu Zhang, Tong Zhang, Wei Zhang, WanChang Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yue Zhang, YiFei Zhang, YongJie Zhang, ZiLiang Zhang, HaiSheng Zhao, JianLing Zhao, XiaoFan Zhao, ShiJie Zheng, Yue Zhu, YuXuan Zhu & ChangLin Zou

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Li, T., Xiong, S., Zhang, S. et al. Insight-HXMT observations of the first binary neutron star merger GW170817. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 61, 031011 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-017-9107-5

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  • Received: 09 October 2017

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