The Peculiar Precursor of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Binary Merger Involving a Magnetar

Shuo Xiao, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Zi-Pei Zhu +42

The milestone discovery of GW 170817-GRB 170817A-AT 2017gfo has shown that gravitational wave (GW) could be produced during the merger of neutron star-neutron star/black hole and t…