3 papers
astro-ph2008★ 116 cited
Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels +2
We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron…
astro-ph2007
A Magnetohydrodynamic Boost for Relativistic Jets
Yosuke Mizuno, Philip Hardee, Dieter H. Hartmann +2
We performed relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the hydrodynamic boosting mechanism for relativistic jets explored by Aloy & Rezzolla (2006) using the RAISHIN code. Si…
astro-ph2002
HETE-2 Localization and Observations of the Short, Hard Gamma-Ray Burst GRB020531
D. Q. Lamb, G. R. Ricker, J. -L. Atteia +44
The {\it HETE-2} (hereafter \HETE) French Gamma Telescope (FREGATE) and the Wide-field X-ray Monitor (WXM) instruments detected a short ( msec in the FREGATE 85-300 k…