Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars

Nature

Volumn 478, Issue 7367, 2011, Pages 82-84

  Nakar, Ehud ^a   Piran, Tsvi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; PREDICTION; RADIO WAVE; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; GRAVITY; HEATING; NEUTRON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SIMULATION; SYNCHROTRON; TELECOMMUNICATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 80053924990     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10365     Document Type: Article

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