Radio, opt. & X-ray afterglow obs. of GW170817 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Makhathini S.
  2. Mooley K.P.
  3. Brightman M.
  4. Hotokezaka K.
  5. Nayana A.J.,Intema H.T.
  6. Dobie D.
  7. Lenc E.
  8. Perley D.A.
  9. Fremling C.
  10. Moldon J.,Lazzati D.
  11. Kaplan D.L.
  12. Balasubramanian A.
  13. Brown I.S.
  14. Carbone D.,Chandra P.
  15. Corsi A.
  16. Camilo F.
  17. Deller A.
  18. Frail D.A.
  19. Murphy T.,Murphy E.J.
  20. Nakar E.
  21. Smirnov O.
  22. Beswick R.J.
  23. Fender R.
  24. Hallinan G.,Heywood I.
  25. Kasliwal M.
  26. Lee B.
  27. Lu W.
  28. Rana J.
  29. Perkins S.
  30. White S.V.,Jozsa G.I.G.
  31. Hugo B.
  32. Kamphuis P.
  33. Published by
    CDS
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 evaluated the impact of differences in data processing or flux determination methods used by different groups and attempted to mitigate these differences to provide a more uniform data set. Simple power-law fits to the uniform afterglow light curve indicate a t^0.86+/-0.04^ rise, a t^-1.92+/-0.12^ decline, and a peak occurring at 155+/-4 days. The afterglow is optically thin throughout its evolution, consistent with a single spectral index (-0.584+/-0.002) across all epochs. This gives a precise and updated estimate of the electron power-law index, p=2.168+/-0.004. By studying the diffuse X-ray emission from the host galaxy, we place a conservative upper limit on the hot ionized interstellar medium density, <0.01cm^-3^, consistent with previous afterglow studies. Using the late-time afterglow data we rule out any long-lived neutron star remnant having a magnetic field strength between 10^10.4^ and 10^16^G. Our fits to the afterglow data using an analytical model that includes Very Long Baseline Interferometry proper motion from Mooley+ (2018Natur.561..355M), and a structured jet model that ignores the proper motion, indicates that the proper-motion measurement needs to be considered when seeking an accurate estimate of the viewing angle.

Keywords
  1. gravitational-waves
  2. radio-sources
  3. x-ray-sources
  4. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...922..154M
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/922/154
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19220154

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History

2023-04-25T09:19:02Z
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2023-04-25T09:19:02Z
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2023-07-03T14:30:55Z
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