A Strong Jet Signature in the Late-time Light Curve of GW170817

We present new 0.6-10 GHz observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 covering the period up to 300 days post-merger, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and the MeerKAT telescope. We use these data to...

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Main Authors: Mooley, KP, Frail, DA, Dobie, D, Lenc, E, Corsi, A, De, K, Nayana, AJ, Makhathini, S, Heywood, I, Murphy, T, Kaplan, DL, Chandra, P, Smirnov, O, Nakar, E, Hallinan, G, Camilo, F, Fender, R, Goedhart, S, Groot, P, Kasliwal, MM, Kulkarni, SR, Woudt, PA
Format: Journal article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018