Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers in globular clusters

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 116-119

  Grindlay, Jonathan ^a   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^b   Mcmillan, Stephen ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; NEUTRONS;

BINARY NEUTRON STARS; BINARY SYSTEMS; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; GALACTIC DISKS; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; SPATIAL OFFSETS; STAR FORMATIONS;

STARS;

EID: 33646674097     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys214     Document Type: Article

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