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

GW170817 was the first gravitational-wave detection of a binary neutron-star merger1. It was accompanied by radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum and localized2 to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of 40 megaparsecs. It has been proposed that the observed γ-ray, X-ray and radio emission is d...

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Main Authors: Mooley, K., Nakar, E., Hotokezaka, K., Hallinan, G., Corsi, A., Frail, D., Horesh, A., Murphy, T., Lenc, E., Kaplan, D., De, K., Dobie, D., Chandra, P., Deller, A., Gottlieb, O., Kasliwal, M., Kulkarni, S., Myers, S., Nissanke, S., Piran, T., Lynch, Christene, Bhalerao, V., Bourke, S., Bannister, K., Singer, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70055