Evidence for X-Ray Emission in Excess to the Jet-afterglow Decay 3.5 yr after the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW 170817: A New Emission Component

A. Hajela(Northwestern University), Jillian Rastinejad(Northwestern University), Wen‐fai Fong(Northwestern University), Ian Heywood(Rhodes University), Vsevolod Nedora(University of Potsdam), Floor S. Broekgaarden(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), Y. Cendes(Oregon Research Institute), X. C. Xie(University of Southampton), Lorenzo Sironi(Columbia University), K. D. Alexander(University of Arizona), David Radice(Pennsylvania State University), T. Laskar(Radboud University Nijmegen), Adithan Kathirgamaraju(California Institute of Technology), Sebastiano Bernuzzi(Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Brian D. Metzger(Columbia University), Tarraneh Eftekhari(Northwestern University), G. Hosseinzadeh(University of Arizona), C. Guidorzi(University of Ferrara), Rodolfo Barniol Duran(California State University, Sacramento), V. Ashley Villar(Pennsylvania State University), P. K. Blanchard(Northwestern University), Joe Bright(University of Oxford), D. L. Coppejans(Northwestern University), E. Berger(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), Andrew MacFadyen(Institute for Advanced Study), R. Chornock(Geophysical Laboratory), Dimitrios Giannios(Princeton University), G. Terreran(Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network), Ore Gottlieb(Unknown), Ben Margalit(Columbia University), Jonathan Zrake(Clemson University), Sebastián Gómez(Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Nicholl(Queen's University Belfast), Austin McDowell(New York University), C. D. Kilpatrick(University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Margutti(Harvard University Press), David Matthews(University of California, Berkeley)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
March 1, 2022
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