Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an electromagnetic counterpart (EM170817) with gravitational waves (GW170817) detected from merging neutron stars. By synt...

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Main Authors: Kasliwal, M., Nakar, E., Singer, L., Kaplan, D., Cook, D., Van Sistine, A., Lau, R., Fremling, C., Gottlieb, O., Jencson, J., Adams, S., Feindt, U., Hotokezaka, K., Ghosh, S., Perley, D., Yu, P., Piran, T., Allison, J., Anupama, G., Balasubramanian, A., Bannister, K., Bally, J., Barnes, J., Barway, S., Bellm, E., Bhalerao, V., Bhattacharya, D., Blagorodnova, N., Bloom, J., Brady, P., Cannella, C., Chatterjee, D., Cenko, S., Cobb, B., Copperwheat, C., Corsi, A., De, K., Dobie, D., Emery, S., Evans, P., Fox, O., Frail, D., Frohmaier, C., Goobar, A., Hallinan, G., Harrison, F., Helou, G., Hinderer, T., Ho, A., Horesh, A., Ip, W., Itoh, R., Kasen, D., Kim, H., Kuin, N., Kupfer, T., Lynch, Christene, Madsen, K., Mazzali, P., Miller, A., Mooley, K., Murphy, T., Ngeow, C., Nichols, D., Nissanke, S., Nugent, P., Ofek, E., Qi, H., Quimby, R., Rosswog, S., Rusu, F., Sadler, E., Schmidt, P., Sollerman, J., Steele, I., Williamson, A., Xu, Y., Yan, L., Yatsu, Y., Zhang, C., Zhao, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69473