Target-of-Opportunity Observation Detectability of Kilonovae with WFST
Kilonovae are approximately thermal transients, produced by the mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) and neutron star (NS)–black hole binaries. As the optical counterpart of the gravitational-wave event GW170817, AT2017gfo is the first kilonova detected with smoking-gun evidence. Its observation o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc73b |