Probing millisecond magnetar formation in binary neutron star mergers through X-ray follow-up of gravitational wave alerts

Clara Plasse, Alexis Reboul-Salze, Jérome Guilet +5

The nature of the remnant of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger is uncertain. Though certainly a black hole (BH) in the cases of the most massive BNSs, X-ray lightcurves from gamma…