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GRB 050911: A Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger or a Naked GRB

GRB 050911: A Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger or a Naked GRB

GRB 050911, discovered by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope, was not seen 4.6 hr later by the Swift X-ray Telescope, making it one of the very few X-ray non-detections of a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglow at early times. The gamma-ray light-curve shows at least three peaks, the first two of …