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  21 September 2022 | Open Access

  Repeating fast radio burst 20201124A originates from a magnetar/Be star binary

  Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond or shorter duration transient events. Here, the authors propose that FRB 20201124A comes from a binary system of a magnetar and a Be star with a decretion disk.

  • F. Y. Wang
  • , G. Q. Zhang
  •  & K. S. Cheng

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  16 October 2018 | Open Access

  A luminous blue kilonova and an off-axis jet from a compact binary merger at z = 0.1341

  A faint gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) has been recently detected in coincidence with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW 170817. Here, the authors report that another faint short GRB at a cosmological distance (GRB150101B) and its late time emission are analogous to the neutron star merger event GRB 170817A.

  • E. Troja
  • , G. Ryan
  •  & S. Veilleux