{
  "id": "1610.01419",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-10-05T13:52:32.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-10-05T13:52:32.000Z",
  "title": "Low-Γ jets from Compact Binary Mergers as Candidate Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources",
  "authors": [
    "Gavin P Lamb",
    "Shiho Kobayashi"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to Proceedings of IAU Symposium 324 (New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "Compact binary mergers, with neutron stars or neutron star and black-hole components, are thought to produce various electromagnetic counterparts: short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from ultra-relativistic jets followed by broadband afterglow; semi-isotropic kilonova from radioactive decay of r-process elements; and late time radio flares; etc. If the jets from such mergers follow a similar power-law distribution of Lorentz factors as other astrophysical jets then the population of merger jets will be dominated by low-{\\Gamma} values. The prompt gamma-rays associated with short GRBs would be suppressed for a low-{\\Gamma} jet and the jet energy will be released as X-ray/optical/radio transients when a shock forms in the ambient medium. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we study the properties of such transients as candidate electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources detectable by LIGO/Virgo. Approximately 78% of merger-jets result in failed GRB with optical peaks 14-22 magnitude and an all-sky rate of 2-3 per year.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-10-05T13:52:32.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "candidate electromagnetic counterparts",
      "gravitational wave sources",
      "compact binary mergers",
      "late time radio flares",
      "neutron star"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}