On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

On 2017 August 17 the merger of two compact objects with masses consistent with two neutron stars was discovered through gravitational-wave (GW170817), gamma-ray (GRB 170817A), and optical (SSS17a/AT 2017gfo) observations. The optical source was associated with the early-type galaxy NGC 4993 at a di...

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Main Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Author), Virgo Collaboration (Author), Aggarwal, Nancy (Contributor), Barsotti, Lisa (Contributor), Biscans, Sebastien (Contributor), Buikema, Aaron (Contributor), Demos, Nicholas (Contributor), Donovan, Frederick J (Contributor), Eisenstein, Robert Alan (Contributor), Essick, Reed Clasey (Contributor), Evans, Matthew J (Contributor), Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel (Contributor), Fritschel, Peter K (Contributor), Gras, Slawomir (Contributor), Hall, Evan D. (Contributor), Katsavounidis, Erotokritos (Contributor), Kontos, Antonios (Contributor), Lanza Jr, Robert K (Contributor), Lynch, Ryan Christopher (Contributor), MacInnis, Myron E (Contributor), Martynov, Denis (Contributor), Mason, Kenneth R (Contributor), Matichard, Fabrice (Contributor), Mavalvala, Nergis (Contributor), McCuller, Lee P (Contributor), Miller, John (Contributor), Mittleman, Richard K (Contributor), Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan (Contributor), Shoemaker, David H (Contributor), Tse, Maggie (Contributor), Vitale, Salvatore (Contributor), Weiss, Rainer (Contributor), Yu, Hang (Contributor), Yu, Haocun (Contributor), Zucker, Michael E (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2018-04-26T20:11:31Z.
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