A cocoon shock breakout as the origin of the γ-ray emission in GW170817

Ore Gottlieb(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Kenta Hotokezaka(Princeton University), Tsvi Piran(Columbia University), Ehud Nakar(Tel Aviv University)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

June 4, 2018

10.1093/mnras/sty1462

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