Transient Relativistic eXplosions

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (27)

Reconciling the diffuse Galactic γ-ray and the cosmic ray spectra

Author(s): Lara Nava, David Benyamin, Tsvi Piran, Nir J. Shaviv
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 466/3, 2017, Page(s) 3674-3681, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3346

THE OBSERVABLE SIGNATURES OF GRB COCOONS

Author(s): Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 834/1, 2017, Page(s) 28, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/1/28

ARE ULTRA-LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS CAUSED BY BLUE SUPERGIANT COLLAPSARS, NEWBORN MAGNETARS, OR WHITE DWARF TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS?

Author(s): Kunihito Ioka, Kenta Hotokezaka, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 833/1, 2016, Page(s) 110, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/110

Analytic heating rate of neutron star merger ejecta derived from Fermi's theory of beta decay

Author(s): Kenta Hotokezaka, Re'em Sari, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 468/1, 2017, Page(s) 91-96, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx411

Probing the Extragalactic Cosmic-Ray Origin with Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Backgrounds

Author(s): Noemie Globus, Denis Allard, Etienne Parizot, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 839/2, 2017, Page(s) L22, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa6af0

Observational evidence for mass ejection accompanying short gamma-ray bursts

Author(s): Reetanjali Moharana, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Issue 472/1, 2017, Page(s) L55-L59, ISSN 1745-3933
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx131

The cocoon emission – an electromagnetic counterpart to gravitational waves from neutron star mergers

Author(s): Ore Gottlieb, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 473/1, 2017, Page(s) 576-584, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2357

Implications of the Low Binary Black Hole Aligned Spins Observed by LIGO

Author(s): Kenta Hotokezaka, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 842/2, 2017, Page(s) 111, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6f61

The Extragalactic Ultra-high-energy Cosmic-Ray Dipole

Author(s): Noemie Globus, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 850/2, 2017, Page(s) L25, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa991b

Elliptical Accretion and Low Luminosity from High Accretion Rate Stellar Tidal Disruption Events

Author(s): Gilad Svirski, Tsvi Piran, Julian Krolik
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, Page(s) stx117, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx117

Generalized compactness limit from an arbitrary viewing angle

Author(s): Tatsuya Matsumoto, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 486/2, 2019, Page(s) 1563-1573, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz923

Implications of the radio and X-ray emission that followed GW170817

Author(s): Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 478/1, 2018, Page(s) 407-415, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty952

Constraints on the emitting region of the gamma-rays observed in GW170817

Author(s): Tatsuya Matsumoto, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 483/1, 2018, Page(s) 1247-1255, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3200

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

Author(s): Ore Gottlieb, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran, Kenta Hotokezaka
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1462

Positron flux and γ-ray emission from Geminga pulsar and pulsar wind nebula

Author(s): Xiaping Tang, Tsvi Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 484/3, 2019, Page(s) 3491-3501, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz268

Cosmic ray anisotropy from large-scale structure and the effect of magnetic horizons

Author(s): N Globus, T Piran, Y Hoffman, E Carlesi, D Pomarède
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 484/3, 2019, Page(s) 4167-4173, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz164

Relativistic Jets in Core-collapse Supernovae

Author(s): Tsvi Piran, Ehud Nakar, Paolo Mazzali, Elena Pian
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 871/2, 2019, Page(s) L25, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaffce

Synchrotron Radiation from the Fast Tail of Dynamical Ejecta of Neutron Star Mergers

Author(s): Kenta Hotokezaka, Kenta Kiuchi, Masaru Shibata, Ehud Nakar, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 867/2, 2018, Page(s) 95, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadf92

From γ to Radio: The Electromagnetic Counterpart of GW170817

Author(s): Ehud Nakar, Ore Gottlieb, Tsvi Piran, Mansi. M. Kasliwal, Gregg Hallinan
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 867/1, 2018, Page(s) 18, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae205

Detecting Black Hole Binaries by Gaia

Author(s): Masaki S. Yamaguchi, Norita Kawanaka, Tomasz Bulik, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 861/1, 2018, Page(s) 21, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac5ec

The γ-rays that accompanied GW170817 and the observational signature of a magnetic jet breaking out of NS merger ejecta

Author(s): O Bromberg, A Tchekhovskoy, O Gottlieb, E Nakar, T Piran
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 475/3, 2017, Page(s) 2971-2977, ISSN 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3316

Magnetorotational Instability in Eccentric Disks

Author(s): Chi-Ho Chan, Julian H. Krolik, Tsvi Piran
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 856/1, 2018, Page(s) 12, ISSN 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab15c

A mildly relativistic wide-angle outflow in the neutron-star merger event GW170817

Author(s): K. P. Mooley, E. Nakar, K. Hotokezaka, G. Hallinan, A. Corsi, D. A. Frail, A. Horesh, T. Murphy, E. Lenc, D. L. Kaplan, K. De, D. Dobie, P. Chandra, A. Deller, O. Gottlieb, M. M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, S. T. Myers, S. Nissanke, T. Piran, C. Lynch, V. Bhalerao, S. Bourke, K. W. Bannister, L. P. Singer
Published in: Nature, Issue 554/7691, 2018, Page(s) 207-210, ISSN 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/nature25452

Neutron star mergers as sites of r-process nucleosynthesis and short gamma-ray bursts

Author(s): Kenta Hotokezaka, Paz Beniamini, Tsvi Piran
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D, Issue 27/13, 2018, Page(s) 1842005, ISSN 0218-2718
DOI: 10.1142/s0218271818420051

A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

Author(s): G. Hallinan, A. Corsi, K. P. Mooley, K. Hotokezaka, E. Nakar, M. M. Kasliwal, D. L. Kaplan, D. A. Frail, S. T. Myers, T. Murphy, K. De, D. Dobie, J. R. Allison, K. W. Bannister, V. Bhalerao, P. Chandra, T. E. Clarke, S. Giacintucci, A. Y. Q. Ho, A. Horesh, N. E. Kassim, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Lenc, F. J. Lockman, C. Lynch, D. Nichols, S. Nissanke, N. Palliyaguru, W. M. Peters, T. Piran, J. Rana, E. M.
Published in: Science, Issue 358/6370, 2017, Page(s) 1579-1583, ISSN 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9855

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

Author(s): M. M. Kasliwal, E. Nakar, L. P. Singer, D. L. Kaplan, D. O. Cook, A. Van Sistine, R. M. Lau, C. Fremling, O. Gottlieb, J. E. Jencson, S. M. Adams, U. Feindt, K. Hotokezaka, S. Ghosh, D. A. Perley, P.-C. Yu, T. Piran, J. R. Allison, G. C. Anupama, A. Balasubramanian, K. W. Bannister, J. Bally, J. Barnes, S. Barway, E. Bellm, V. Bhalerao, D. Bhattacharya, N. Blagorodnova, J. S. Bloom, P. R. Brady, C
Published in: Science, Issue 358/6370, 2017, Page(s) 1559-1565, ISSN 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9455

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

Author(s): B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya,
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 848/2, 2017, Page(s) L12, ISSN 2041-8213
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9