A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

Gravitational waves have been detected from a binary neutron star merger event, GW170817. The detection of electromagnetic radiation from the same source has shown that the merger occurred in the outskirts of the galaxy NGC 4993, at a distance of 40 megaparsecs from Earth. We report the detection of...

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Main Authors: Hallinan, G., Corsi, A., Mooley, K., Hotokezaka, K., Nakar, E., Kasliwal, M., Kaplan, D., Frail, D., Myers, S., Murphy, T., De, K., Dobie, D., Allison, J., Bannister, K., Bhalerao, V., Chandra, P., Clarke, T., Giacintucci, S., Ho, A., Horesh, A., Kassim, N., Kulkarni, S., Lenc, E., Lockman, F., Lynch, Christene, Nichols, D., Nissanke, S., Palliyaguru, N., Peters, W., Piran, T., Rana, J., Sadler, E., Singer, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: The American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69505