GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
On August 14, 2017 at 10∶ 30: 43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced
LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the …

GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
On August 17, 2017 at 12∶ 41: 04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral …

Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger

BP Abbott - 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated
GW170817) with merger time 12: 41: 04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by …

INTEGRAL detection of the first prompt gamma-ray signal coincident with the gravitational-wave event GW170817

V Savchenko, C Ferrigno, E Kuulkers… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We report the INTernational Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL)
detection of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A (discovered by Fermi-GBM) with a …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, optical, and near-infrared light curves and comparison to kilonova …

PS Cowperthwaite, E Berger, VA Villar… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV, optical, and near-infrared (NIR) photometry of the first electromagnetic
counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational …

The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

E Troja, L Piro, H Van Eerten, RT Wollaeger, M Im… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
A long-standing paradigm in astrophysics is that collisions—or mergers—of two neutron
stars form highly relativistic and collimated outflows (jets) that power γ-ray bursts of short …

GW170817, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and the neutron star maximum mass

M Ruiz, SL Shapiro, A Tsokaros - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Recent numerical simulations in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD)
provide useful constraints for the interpretation of the GW170817 discovery. Combining the …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. III. Optical and UV spectra of a blue kilonova from fast polar ejecta

M Nicholl, E Berger, D Kasen, BD Metzger… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical and ultraviolet spectra of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a
gravitational-wave (GW) source, the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Spectra were …

The emergence of a lanthanide-rich kilonova following the merger of two neutron stars

NR Tanvir, AJ Levan… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery and monitoring of the near-infrared counterpart (AT2017gfo) of a
binary neutron-star merger event detected as a gravitational wave source by Advanced …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V. Rising X-ray emission from an off-axis jet

R Margutti, E Berger, W Fong, C Guidorzi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V.
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