The Jet Opening Angle and Event Rate Distributions of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts from Late-time X-Ray Afterglows

We present a comprehensive study of 29 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed ≈0.8−60 days postburst using Chandra and XMM-Newton. We provide the inferred distributions of the SGRB jet opening angles and true event rates to compare against neutron star merger rates. We perform a uniform analysis an...

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Main Authors: A. Rouco Escorial, W. Fong, E. Berger, T. Laskar, R. Margutti, G. Schroeder, J. C. Rastinejad, D. Cornish, S. Popp, M. Lally, A. E. Nugent, K. Paterson, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock, K. Alexander, Y. Cendes, T. Eftekhari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf830