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pith:OEREESVJ

pith:2026:OEREESVJFYSDMPHUEIZ2YFWZ2T

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The Very Late Time Afterglow of GW170817 Favors a Wobbling Jet

Aman Katira, Da-Ming Wei, Hao Wang, Lei Lei, Muskan Yadav, Ore Gottlieb, Yi-Zhong Fan

A wobbling jet that drags a ring on the sky explains the shallow late afterglow of GW170817 without extra components.

arxiv:2605.13719 v1 · 2026-05-13 · astro-ph.HE

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Claims

C1strongest claim

Through a Bayesian analysis of the multimessenger data, we find a ring-shaped jet is favored over a collimated jet at a significance level of 4.8σ. Our results imply a wobbling angle of ∼27°.

C2weakest assumption

That a wobbling jet necessarily drags a ring-shaped structure whose post-break emission produces a shallower decay than a collimated jet, with no additional components required.

C3one line summary

A ring-shaped wobbling jet explains the shallow late-time afterglow decay of GW170817 better than a collimated jet at 4.8 sigma significance, implying a ~27 degree wobble angle.

References

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[1] GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral 2017 · arXiv:1710.05832

[2] and others , Journal = 2017 · arXiv:1710.05833

[3] Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A 2017 · arXiv:1710.05834

[4] The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW 170817 2017 · arXiv:1710.05433

[5] A cocoon shock breakout as the origin of the $ \gamma $-ray emission in GW170817 2018 · arXiv:1710.05896

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:44:16.673294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7122424aa92e24363cf42233ac16d9d4eb4d9df6e68aa4b0bf29b5634fa6df29

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.13719 · arxiv_version: 2605.13719v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13719 · pith_short_12: OEREESVJFYSD · pith_short_16: OEREESVJFYSDMPHU · pith_short_8: OEREESVJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OEREESVJFYSDMPHUEIZ2YFWZ2T \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7122424aa92e24363cf42233ac16d9d4eb4d9df6e68aa4b0bf29b5634fa6df29

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-13T16:04:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16217c3497bf94f0cb1c8d3b3f587ec658eec2bc48e39aa9afa7b0dd588fb28d"
  },
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  "source": {
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