{"id":91047,"date":"2019-05-21T07:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/chandra-discovers-new-signal-for-neutron-star-collision"},"modified":"2019-05-21T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:02:22","slug":"chandra-discovers-new-signal-for-neutron-star-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/chandra-discovers-new-signal-for-neutron-star-collision","title":{"rendered":"Chandra Discovers New Signal for Neutron Star Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chandra-discovers-new-signal-for-neutron-star-collision.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory.<\/li>\n<li>This result gives astronomers another way to track down neutron star mergers as well new information about their interiors.<\/li>\n<li>This source, called XT2, is located in the Chandra Deep Field-South, the deepest X-ray image ever obtained.<\/li>\n<li>By studying how XT2 changed in X-ray brightness, astronomers were able to identify it as two neutron stars that merged into a larger one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These images show the location of an event, discovered by NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory, that likely signals the merger of two neutron stars. A bright burst of X-rays in this source, dubbed XT2, could give astronomers fresh insight into how neutron stars \u2014 dense stellar objects packed mainly with neutrons \u2014 are built.<\/p>\n<p>XT2 is located in a galaxy about 6.6 billion light years from Earth. The source is located in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), a small patch of sky in the Fornax constellation. The CDF-S is the deepest X-ray image ever taken, containing almost 12 weeks of Chandra observing time. The wider field of view shows an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope of a portion of the CDF-S field, while the inset shows a Chandra image focusing only on XT2. The location of XT2, which was not detected in optical images, is shown by the rectangle, and its host galaxy is the small, oval-shaped object located slightly to the upper left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/chandra-discovers-new-signal-for-neutron-star-collision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neutron star merger without an observed gamma-ray burst has been discovered using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result gives astronomers another way to track down neutron star mergers as well new information about their interiors. This source, called XT2, is located in the Chandra Deep Field-South, the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. By studying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}