A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger

Gravitational waves have been detected from a binary neutron star merger event, GW170817. The detection of electromagnetic radiation from the same source has shown that the merger occurred in the outskirts of the galaxy NGC 4993, at a distance of 40 megaparsecs from Earth. We report the detection of...

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Main Authors: Hallinan, G, Corsi, A, Mooley, KP, Hotokezaka, K, Nakar, E, Kasliwal, MM, Kaplan, DL, Frail, DA, Myers, ST, Murphy, T, De, K, Dobie, D, Allison, JR, Bannister, KW, Bhalerao, V, Chandra, P, Clarke, TE, Giacintucci, S, Ho, AYQ, Horesh, A, Kassim, NE, Kulkarni, SR, Lenc, E, Lockman, FJ, Lynch, C, Nichols, D, Nissanke, S, Palliyaguru, N, Peters, WM, Piran, T, Rana, J, Sadler, EM, Singer, LP
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017

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