Tsvi Piran

Research interests

Publications

• A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aap9855

• Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24298

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

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/nature25452

• DISK FORMATION VERSUS DISK ACCRETION—WHAT POWERS TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS?

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2015 · 10.1088/0004-637x/806/2/164

• THE PROPAGATION OF RELATIVISTIC JETS IN EXTERNAL MEDIA

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2011 · 10.1088/0004-637x/740/2/100

• Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars

  Nature · 2011 · 10.1038/nature10365

• Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB 080319B

  Nature · 2008 · 10.1038/nature07270

• A novel explosive process is required for the γ-ray burst GRB 060614

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05373

• Relativistic ejecta from X-ray flash XRF 060218 and the rate of cosmic explosions

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05087

• The afterglow of GRB 050709 and the nature of the short-hard γ-ray bursts

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature04189

• The physics of gamma-ray bursts

  Reviews of Modern Physics · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.76.1143

• The afterglow and elliptical host galaxy of the short γ-ray burst GRB 050724

  Nature · 2005 · 10.1038/nature04238

• Accretion Models of Gamma‐Ray Bursts

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2001 · 10.1086/322267

• Planck-scale deformation of Lorentz symmetry as a solution to the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray and the TeV-photon paradoxes

  Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 2001 · 10.1103/physrevd.64.036005

• The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999

  Nature · 1999 · 10.1038/18821

• GRB 990123: The Optical Flash and the Fireball Model

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 10.1086/312039

• Jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1086/312109

• Predictions for the Very Early Afterglow and the Optical Flash

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 10.1086/307508

• Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball model

  Physics Reports · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-1573(98)00127-6

• Can Internal Shocks Produce the Variability in Gamma‐Ray Bursts?

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1997 · 10.1086/512791

• Spectra and Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows

  Journal · 1997

• Variability in Gamma‐Ray Bursts: A Clue

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1997 · 10.1086/304428

• Gamma-ray bursts as the death throes of massive binary stars

  · 1992

• Neutron star and black hole binaries in the Galaxy

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1991 · 10.1086/186143

• Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and γ-rays from coalescing neutron stars

  Nature · 1989 · 10.1038/340126a0

Current projects

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