Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for the International Gamma-...

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Main Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Aggarwal, Nancy, Barsotti, Lisa, Biscans, Sebastien, Buikema, Aaron, Demos, Nicholas, Donovan, Frederick J, Eisenstein, Robert Alan, Essick, Reed Clasey, Evans, Matthew J, Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel, Fritschel, Peter K, Gras, Slawomir, Hall, Evan D., Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, Kontos, Antonios, Lanza Jr, Robert K, Lynch, Ryan Christopher, MacInnis, Myron E, Martynov, Denis, Mason, Kenneth R, Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, McCuller, Lee P, Miller, John, Mittleman, Richard K, Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan, Shoemaker, David H, Tse, Maggie, Vitale, Salvatore, Weiss, Rainer, Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, Michael E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114961
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114961
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-3877
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-7527
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9409-5757
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3503-2032
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-9267
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9018-666X
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1347-0680
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5163-683X
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-4921
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-6190
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596

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