R D Ferdman1, P C C Freire2, B B P Perera3, N Pol4,5, F Camilo6, S Chatterjee7,8, J M Cordes7,8, F Crawford9, J W T Hessels10,11, V M Kaspi12,13, M A McLaughlin4,5, E Parent12,13, I H Stairs14, J van Leeuwen11. 1. Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. r.ferdman@uea.ac.uk. 2. Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany. 3. Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. 5. Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. 6. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. 7. Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. 8. Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. 9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA. 10. Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 11. ASTRON, Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands. 12. Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 13. McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 14. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Abstract
The discovery of a radioactively powered kilonova associated with the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 remains the only confirmed electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event1,2. Observations of the late-time electromagnetic emission, however, do not agree with the expectations from standard neutron-star merger models. Although the large measured ejecta mass3,4 could be explained by a progenitor system that is asymmetric in terms of the stellar component masses (that is, with a mass ratio q of 0.7 to 0.8)5, the known Galactic population of merging double neutron-star systems (that is, those that will coalesce within billions of years or less) has until now consisted only of nearly equal-mass (q > 0.9) binaries6. The pulsar PSR J1913+1102 is a double system in a five-hour, low-eccentricity (0.09) orbit, with an orbital separation of 1.8 solar radii7, and the two neutron stars are predicted to coalesce in [Formula: see text] million years owing to gravitational-wave emission. Here we report that the masses of the pulsar and the companion neutron star, as measured by a dedicated pulsar timing campaign, are 1.62 ± 0.03 and 1.27 ± 0.03 solar masses, respectively. With a measured mass ratio of q = 0.78 ± 0.03, this is the most asymmetric merging system reported so far. On the basis of this detection, our population synthesis analysis implies that such asymmetric binaries represent between 2 and 30 per cent (90 per cent confidence) of the total population of merging binaries. The coalescence of a member of this population offers a possible explanation for the anomalous properties of GW170817, including the observed kilonova emission from that event.
The discovery of a radioactively powered kilonova associated with the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 remains the only confirmed electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event1,2. Observations of the late-time electromagnetic emission, however, do not agree with the expectations from standard neutron-star merger models. Although the large measured ejecta mass3,4 could be explained by a progenitor system that is asymmetric in terms of the stellar component masses (that is, with a mass ratio q of 0.7 to 0.8)5, the known Galactic population of merging double neutron-star systems (that is, those that will coalesce within billions of years or less) has until now consisted only of nearly equal-mass (q > 0.9) binaries6. The pulsar PSR J1913+1102 is a double system in a five-hour, low-eccentricity (0.09) orbit, with an orbital separation of 1.8 solar radii7, and the two neutron stars are predicted to coalesce in [Formula: see text] million years owing to gravitational-wave emission. Here we report that the masses of the pulsar and the companion neutron star, as measured by a dedicated pulsar timing campaign, are 1.62 ± 0.03 and 1.27 ± 0.03 solar masses, respectively. With a measured mass ratio of q = 0.78 ± 0.03, this is the most asymmetric merging system reported so far. On the basis of this detection, our population synthesis analysis implies that such asymmetric binaries represent between 2 and 30 per cent (90 per cent confidence) of the total population of merging binaries. The coalescence of a member of this population offers a possible explanation for the anomalous properties of GW170817, including the observed kilonova emission from that event.
Authors: M Kramer; I H Stairs; R N Manchester; M A McLaughlin; A G Lyne; R D Ferdman; M Burgay; D R Lorimer; A Possenti; N D'Amico; J M Sarkissian; G B Hobbs; J E Reynolds; P C C Freire; F Camilo Journal: Science Date: 2006-09-14 Impact factor: 47.728
Authors: N R Tanvir; A J Levan; A S Fruchter; J Hjorth; R A Hounsell; K Wiersema; R L Tunnicliffe Journal: Nature Date: 2013-08-28 Impact factor: 49.962
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