Alessandro Drago, Giuseppe Pagliara, Silvia Traversi
Published 2018-02-05Version 1
The merger of two neutron stars is a very complex process. In order to disentangle the various steps through which it takes place it is mandatory to examine all the signals we can detect: gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves, in a huge spectrum ranging from X and $\gamma$-rays down to infrared and radio. Each of these signals provides a message and the totality of this information will allow us not only to understand the process of the merger but also the behavior of matter at those extreme conditions.
Comments: To be published in the Proceedings of the THESEUS Workshop 2017 (http://www.isdc.unige.ch/theseus/workshop2017.html), Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society (Mem.SAIt), Editors L. Amati, E. Bozzo, M. Della Valle, D. Gotz, P. O'Brien. Details on the THESEUS mission concept can be found in the white paper Amati et al. 2017 (arXiv:171004638) and Stratta et al. 2017 (arXiv:1712.08153)
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