2023ApJ...943...13W -
Astrophys. J., 943, 13 (2023/January-3)
The Late Afterglow of GW170817/GRB 170817A: A Large Viewing Angle and the Shift of the Hubble Constant to a Value More Consistent with the Local Measurements.
WANG Y.-Y., TANG S.-P., JIN Z.-P. and FAN Y.-Z.
Abstract (from CDS):
The multimessenger data of neutron star merger events are promising for constraining the Hubble constant. So far, GW170817 is still the unique gravitational wave event with multiwavelength electromagnetic counterparts. In particular, its radio and X-ray emission have been measured in the past ∼3-5 yr. In this work, we fit the long-lasting X-ray, optical, and radio afterglow light curves of GW170817/GRB 170817A, including the forward shock radiation from both the decelerating relativistic gamma-ray burst outflow and the subrelativistic kilonova outflow (though whether the second component contributes significantly is still uncertain), and find out a relatively large viewing angle (∼0.5 rad). Such a viewing angle has been taken as a prior in the gravitational wave data analysis, and the degeneracy between the viewing angle and the luminosity distance is broken. Finally, we have a Hubble constant ${H}_{0}={72.57}_{-4.17}^{+4.09}\,\mathrm{km}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{Mpc}}^{-1}$, which is more consistent with that obtained by other local measurements. If rather similar values are inferred from multimessenger data of future neutron star merger events, it will provide critical support to the existence of the Hubble tension.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Hubble constant - Gravitational wave astronomy - Gamma-ray bursts
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