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(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), X. C. Xie(University of Southampton), Lorenzo Sironi(Columbia University), K. D. Alexander(Northwestern University), 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(Flatiron Health (United States)), 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 California, Berkeley), D. L. Coppejans(Northwestern University), E. Berger(California Institute of Technology), Andrew MacFadyen(New York University), R. Chornock(University of California, Berkeley), Dimitrios Giannios(Princeton University), G. Terreran(Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network), Ore Gottlieb(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Ben Margalit(University of California, Berkeley), Jonathan Zrake, Sebastián Gómez(Space Telescope Science Institute), M. Nicholl(University of Birmingham), Austin McDowell(New York University), C. D. Kilpatrick(Northwestern University), R. Margutti(Harvard University Press), David Matthews(University of California, Berkeley)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
March 1, 2022
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