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Title: Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova

Abstract

With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics began. However, a complete picture of compact object mergers requires the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. Here, we report ultraviolet (UV) and x-ray observations by Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) of the EM counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW 170817. The bright, rapidly fading ultraviolet emission indicates a high mass (≈ 0.03 solar masses) wind-driven outflow with moderate electron fraction (Ye ≈ 0.27). Combined with the x-ray limits, we favor an observer viewing angle of ≈30° away from the orbital rotation axis, which avoids both obscuration from the heaviest elements in the orbital plane and a direct view of any ultra-relativistic, highly collimated ejecta (a γ-ray burst afterglow).

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  1. Univ. of Leicester (United Kingdom)
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  4. Univ. College London, Dorking (United Kingdom)
  5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  7. Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
  8. Simons Foundation, New York, NY (United States)
  9. Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  10. National Inst. for Astrophysics (INAF), Roma (Italy)
  11. Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom)
  12. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  13. National Inst. for Astrophysics (INAF), Palermo (Italy)
  14. National Inst. for Astrophysics (INAF), Catone (Italy); Space Science Data Center (SSDC), Rome (Italy)
  15. Univ. of Istanbul (Turkey)
  16. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Southern Utah Univ., Cedar City, UT (United States)
  17. Space Science Data Center (SSDC), Rome (Italy)
  18. Clemson Univ., SC (United States)
  19. Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD (United States); National Science Foundation (NSF), Alexandria, VA (United States)
  20. Univ. of Warick, Coventry (United Kingdom)
  21. Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.
  22. Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
  23. Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Kanagawa (Japan)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1407906
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-28358
Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 358; Journal Issue: 6370; Journal ID: ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Swift; X-ray; kilonova; ultraviolet

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Evans, P. A., Cenko, S. B., Kennea, J. A., Emery, S. W. K., Kuin, N. P. M., Korobkin, O., Wollaeger, R. T., Fryer, C. L., Madsen, K. K., Harrison, F. A., Xu, Y., Nakar, E., Hotokezaka, K., Lien, A., Campana, S., Oates, S. R., Troja, E., Breeveld, A. A., Marshall, F. E., Barthelmy, S. D., Beardmore, A. P., Burrows, D. N., Cusumano, G., D’Aì, A., D’Avanzo, P., D’Elia, V., de Pasquale, M., Even, W. P., Fontes, C. J., Forster, K., Garcia, J., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B., Gronwall, C., Hartmann, D. H., Heida, M., Hungerford, A. L., Kasliwal, M. M., Krimm, H. A., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D., Melandri, A., Miyasaka, H., Nousek, J. A., O’Brien, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Palmer, D. M., Perri, M., Pike, S., Racusin, J. L., Rosswog, S., Siegel, M. H., Sakamoto, T., Sbarufatti, B., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., and Tohuvavohu, A.. Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9580.
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Evans, P. A., Cenko, S. B., Kennea, J. A., Emery, S. W. K., Kuin, N. P. M., Korobkin, O., Wollaeger, R. T., Fryer, C. L., Madsen, K. K., Harrison, F. A., Xu, Y., Nakar, E., Hotokezaka, K., Lien, A., Campana, S., Oates, S. R., Troja, E., Breeveld, A. A., Marshall, F. E., Barthelmy, S. D., Beardmore, A. P., Burrows, D. N., Cusumano, G., D’Aì, A., D’Avanzo, P., D’Elia, V., de Pasquale, M., Even, W. P., Fontes, C. J., Forster, K., Garcia, J., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B., Gronwall, C., Hartmann, D. H., Heida, M., Hungerford, A. L., Kasliwal, M. M., Krimm, H. A., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D., Melandri, A., Miyasaka, H., Nousek, J. A., O’Brien, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Palmer, D. M., Perri, M., Pike, S., Racusin, J. L., Rosswog, S., Siegel, M. H., Sakamoto, T., Sbarufatti, B., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., & Tohuvavohu, A.. Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9580
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Evans, P. A., Cenko, S. B., Kennea, J. A., Emery, S. W. K., Kuin, N. P. M., Korobkin, O., Wollaeger, R. T., Fryer, C. L., Madsen, K. K., Harrison, F. A., Xu, Y., Nakar, E., Hotokezaka, K., Lien, A., Campana, S., Oates, S. R., Troja, E., Breeveld, A. A., Marshall, F. E., Barthelmy, S. D., Beardmore, A. P., Burrows, D. N., Cusumano, G., D’Aì, A., D’Avanzo, P., D’Elia, V., de Pasquale, M., Even, W. P., Fontes, C. J., Forster, K., Garcia, J., Giommi, P., Grefenstette, B., Gronwall, C., Hartmann, D. H., Heida, M., Hungerford, A. L., Kasliwal, M. M., Krimm, H. A., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D., Melandri, A., Miyasaka, H., Nousek, J. A., O’Brien, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Palmer, D. M., Perri, M., Pike, S., Racusin, J. L., Rosswog, S., Siegel, M. H., Sakamoto, T., Sbarufatti, B., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., and Tohuvavohu, A.. Mon . "Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9580. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1407906.
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@article{osti_1407906,
title = {Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova},
author = {Evans, P. A. and Cenko, S. B. and Kennea, J. A. and Emery, S. W. K. and Kuin, N. P. M. and Korobkin, O. and Wollaeger, R. T. and Fryer, C. L. and Madsen, K. K. and Harrison, F. A. and Xu, Y. and Nakar, E. and Hotokezaka, K. and Lien, A. and Campana, S. and Oates, S. R. and Troja, E. and Breeveld, A. A. and Marshall, F. E. and Barthelmy, S. D. and Beardmore, A. P. and Burrows, D. N. and Cusumano, G. and D’Aì, A. and D’Avanzo, P. and D’Elia, V. and de Pasquale, M. and Even, W. P. and Fontes, C. J. and Forster, K. and Garcia, J. and Giommi, P. and Grefenstette, B. and Gronwall, C. and Hartmann, D. H. and Heida, M. and Hungerford, A. L. and Kasliwal, M. M. and Krimm, H. A. and Levan, A. J. and Malesani, D. and Melandri, A. and Miyasaka, H. and Nousek, J. A. and O’Brien, P. T. and Osborne, J. P. and Pagani, C. and Page, K. L. and Palmer, D. M. and Perri, M. and Pike, S. and Racusin, J. L. and Rosswog, S. and Siegel, M. H. and Sakamoto, T. and Sbarufatti, B. and Tagliaferri, G. and Tanvir, N. R. and Tohuvavohu, A.},
abstractNote = {With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics began. However, a complete picture of compact object mergers requires the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. Here, we report ultraviolet (UV) and x-ray observations by Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) of the EM counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW 170817. The bright, rapidly fading ultraviolet emission indicates a high mass (≈ 0.03 solar masses) wind-driven outflow with moderate electron fraction (Ye ≈ 0.27). Combined with the x-ray limits, we favor an observer viewing angle of ≈30° away from the orbital rotation axis, which avoids both obscuration from the heaviest elements in the orbital plane and a direct view of any ultra-relativistic, highly collimated ejecta (a γ-ray burst afterglow).},
doi = {10.1126/science.aap9580},
journal = {Science},
number = 6370,
volume = 358,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {10}
}
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    journal, December 2019

    GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3
    journal, October 2017

    • Tohuvavohu, Aaron; Kennea, Jamie A.
    • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 13, Issue S338
    • DOI: 10.1017/s1743921318003629

    Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger
    journal, October 2017

    A luminous blue kilonova and an off-axis jet from a compact binary merger at z = 0.1341
    journal, October 2018

    The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst associated with GW170817
    journal, July 2018

    Web application for galaxy-targeted follow-up of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources
    journal, January 2020

    From the microscopic to the macroscopic world: from nucleons to neutron stars
    journal, August 2019

    • Gandolfi, S.; Lippuner, J.; Steiner, A. W.
    • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 10
    • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab29b3

    Cosmology and dark energy from joint gravitational wave-GRB observations
    journal, August 2019

    • Belgacem, Enis; Dirian, Yves; Foffa, Stefano
    • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2019, Issue 08
    • DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/08/015

    A Strategy for LSST to Unveil a Population of Kilonovae without Gravitational-wave Triggers
    journal, May 2019

    • Andreoni, Igor; Anand, Shreya; Bianco, Federica B.
    • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 131, Issue 1000
    • DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab1531

    Late-time evolution of afterglows from off-axis neutron star mergers
    journal, August 2018

    • Lamb, Gavin P.; Mandel, Ilya; Resmi, Lekshmi
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2196

    A long-lived neutron star merger remnant in GW170817: constraints and clues from X-ray observations
    journal, November 2018

    • Piro, L.; Troja, E.; Zhang, B.
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 483, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3047

    The fast, luminous ultraviolet transient AT2018cow: extreme supernova, or disruption of a star by an intermediate-mass black hole?
    journal, December 2018

    • Perley, Daniel A.; Mazzali, Paolo A.; Yan, Lin
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 484, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3420

    Plerion model of the X-ray plateau in short gamma-ray bursts
    journal, June 2019

    • Strang, L. C.; Melatos, A.
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 4
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1648

    The Palomar Transient Factory Sky2Night programme
    journal, January 2019

    • van Roestel, J.; Groot, P. J.; Kupfer, T.
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 484, Issue 4
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz241

    possis: predicting spectra, light curves, and polarization for multidimensional models of supernovae and kilonovae
    journal, September 2019

    • Bulla, M.
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489, Issue 4
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2495

    Joint gravitational wave – gamma-ray burst detection rates in the aftermath of GW170817
    journal, February 2019

    • Howell, E. J.; Ackley, K.; Rowlinson, A.
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz455

    A new delay time distribution for merging neutron stars tested against Galactic and cosmic data
    journal, April 2019

    • Simonetti, Paolo; Matteucci, Francesca; Greggio, Laura
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 486, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz991

    Full transport model of GW170817-like disk produces a blue kilonova
    journal, July 2019

    Global simulations of strongly magnetized remnant massive neutron stars formed in binary neutron star mergers
    journal, June 2018

    Gravitational waveforms from spectral Einstein code simulations: Neutron star-neutron star and low-mass black hole-neutron star binaries
    journal, February 2019

    Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
    journal, January 2019

    Short gamma-ray burst central engines
    journal, October 2018

    The Origin of r -process Elements in the Milky Way
    journal, March 2018

    • Côté, Benoit; Fryer, Chris L.; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 855, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaad67

    Compact Binary Mergers and the Event Rate of Fast Radio Bursts
    journal, May 2018

    The Allowed Parameter Space of a Long-lived Neutron Star as the Merger Remnant of GW170817
    journal, June 2018

    Is the Macronova in GW170817 Powered by the Central Engine?
    journal, July 2018

    • Matsumoto, Tatsuya; Ioka, Kunihito; Kisaka, Shota
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 861, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac4a8

    A Long-lived Remnant Neutron Star after GW170817 Inferred from Its Associated Kilonova
    journal, July 2018

    A Simultaneous Search for Prompt Radio Emission Associated with the Short GRB 170112A Using the All-sky Imaging Capability of the OVRO-LWA
    journal, August 2018

    • Anderson, Marin M.; Hallinan, Gregg; Eastwood, Michael W.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 864, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad2d7

    Super-knee Cosmic Rays from Galactic Neutron Star Merger Remnants
    journal, October 2018

    • Kimura, Shigeo S.; Murase, Kohta; Mészáros, Peter
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 866, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadc0a

    Kilonova Emission from Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers: Observational Signatures of Anisotropic Mass Ejection
    journal, October 2018

    • Huang, Zhi-Qiu; Liu, Liang-Duan; Wang, Xiang-Yu
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 867, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae093

    Low-frequency View of GW170817/GRB 170817A with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
    journal, October 2018

    • Resmi, L.; Schulze, S.; Ishwara-Chandra, C. H.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 867, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae1a6

    Optimized Radio Follow-up of Binary Neutron-star Mergers
    journal, November 2018

    Binary Neutron Star Mergers: Mass Ejection, Electromagnetic Counterparts, and Nucleosynthesis
    journal, December 2018

    • Radice, David; Perego, Albino; Hotokezaka, Kenta
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 869, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf054

    Radioactive Gamma-Ray Emissions from Neutron Star Mergers
    journal, February 2019

    Optical Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Events during the Second Advanced LIGO/VIRGO Observing Run with the DLT40 Survey
    journal, April 2019

    • Yang, Sheng; Sand, David J.; Valenti, Stefano
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 875, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e06

    Low-latency Gravitational-wave Alerts for Multimessenger Astronomy during the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run
    journal, April 2019

    Census of the Local Universe (CLU) Narrowband Survey. I. Galaxy Catalogs from Preliminary Fields
    journal, July 2019

    • Cook, David O.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Sistine, Angela Van
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 880, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2131

    Late-time Afterglow from Double-sided Structured Jets: Application to GRB 170817A
    journal, July 2019

    • Li, Long-Biao; Geng, Jin-Jun; Huang, Yong-Feng
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 880, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab275d

    Short GRB 160821B: A Reverse Shock, a Refreshed Shock, and a Well-sampled Kilonova
    journal, September 2019

    A Rapidly Declining Transient Discovered with the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam
    journal, October 2019

    • Tominaga, Nozomu; Morokuma, Tomoki; Tanaka, Masaomi
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab425c

    Calibrating the Cosmic Distance Ladder Using Gravitational-wave Observations
    journal, November 2019

    • Gupta, Anuradha; Fox, Derek; Sathyaprakash, B. S.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 886, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c92

    Line Expansion Opacity in Relativistically Expanding Media
    journal, December 2019

    Gamma Rays from Kilonova: A Potential Probe of r -process Nucleosynthesis
    journal, February 2020

    • Korobkin, Oleg; Hungerford, Aimee M.; Fryer, Christopher L.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 889, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab64d8

    Swift -XRT Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Triggers in the Second Advanced LIGO/Virgo Observing Run
    journal, November 2019

    • Klingler, N. J.; Kennea, J. A.; Evans, P. A.
    • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 245, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab4ea2

    A Deep Chandra X-Ray Study of Neutron Star Coalescence GW170817
    journal, October 2017

    • Haggard, Daryl; Nynka, Melania; Ruan, John J.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 848, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8ede

    The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V. Rising X-Ray Emission from an Off-axis Jet
    journal, October 2017

    The Environment of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
    journal, October 2017

    Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817
    journal, December 2017

    Constraining the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars from Multi-messenger Observations of GW170817
    journal, November 2017

    Brightening X-Ray Emission from GW170817/GRB 170817A: Further Evidence for an Outflow
    journal, January 2018

    • Ruan, John J.; Nynka, Melania; Haggard, Daryl
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 853, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaa4f3

    The Orbit of GW170817 Was Inclined by Less Than 28° to the Line of Sight
    journal, January 2018

    A Turnover in the Radio Light Curve of GW170817
    journal, May 2018

    • Dobie, Dougal; Kaplan, David L.; Murphy, Tara
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 858, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aac105

    Continued Brightening of the Afterglow of GW170817/GRB 170817A as Being Due to a Delayed Energy Injection
    journal, May 2018

    An Upper Limit on the Linear Polarization Fraction of the GW170817 Radio Continuum
    journal, July 2018

    • Corsi, Alessandra; Hallinan, Gregg W.; Lazzati, Davide
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 861, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aacdfd

    SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf
    journal, October 2019

    • McBrien, Owen R.; Smartt, Stephen J.; Chen, Ting-Wan
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab4dae

    Upscattered Cocoon Emission in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts as High-energy Gamma-Ray Counterparts to Gravitational Waves
    journal, December 2019

    • Kimura, Shigeo S.; Murase, Kohta; Ioka, Kunihito
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 887, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab59e1

    An optimised gravitational wave follow-up strategy with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
    journal, January 2019

    • Dobie, D.; Murphy, T.; Kaplan, D. L.
    • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Vol. 36
    • DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2019.9

    A mildly relativistic wide-angle outflow in the neutron-star merger event GW170817
    journal, December 2017

    • Mooley, K. P.; Nakar, E.; Hotokezaka, K.
    • Nature, Vol. 554, Issue 7691
    • DOI: 10.1038/nature25452

    The first direct double neutron star merger detection: Implications for cosmic nucleosynthesis
    journal, July 2018

    Interpreting GRB170817A as a giant flare from a jet-less double neutron star merger
    journal, November 2018

    2900 Square Degree Search for the Optical Counterpart of Short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 180523B with the Zwicky Transient Facility
    journal, February 2019

    • Coughlin, Michael W.; Ahumada, Tomás; Cenko, S. Bradley
    • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 131, Issue 998
    • DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/aaff99

    Jet structure in the afterglow phase for gamma-ray bursts with a precessing jet
    journal, June 2019

    • Huang, Bao-Quan; Lin, Da-Bin; Liu, Tong
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 3
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1426

    Observable features of GW170817 kilonova afterglow
    journal, June 2019

    • Kathirgamaraju, Adithan; Giannios, Dimitrios; Beniamini, Paz
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 3
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1564

    Optimizing multitelescope observations of gravitational-wave counterparts
    journal, September 2019

    • Coughlin, Michael W.; Antier, Sarah; Corre, David
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489, Issue 4
    • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2485

    Distinguishing the nature of comparable-mass neutron star binary systems with multimessenger observations: GW170817 case study
    journal, September 2019

    A radio counterpart to a neutron star merger
    journal, October 2017

    GW170817 --the first observed neutron star merger and its kilonova: Implications for the astrophysical site of the r-process
    journal, November 2019

    Joint gravitational wave - gamma-ray burst detection rates in the aftermath of GW170817
    conference, January 2020

    • Howell, Eric; Ackley, Kendall; Rowlinson, Antonia
    • Proceedings of The New Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics — PoS(Asterics2019)
    • DOI: 10.22323/1.357.0035

    A Pulsar Wind Nebula Model Applied to Short GRB 050724
    journal, March 2018

    Shock Acceleration of Electrons and Synchrotron Emission from the Dynamical Ejecta of Neutron Star Mergers
    journal, May 2018

    • Lee, Shiu-Hang; Maeda, Keiichi; Kawanaka, Norita
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 858, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabaea

    Scattered Short Gamma-Ray Bursts as Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves and Implications of GW170817 and GRB 170817A
    journal, October 2018

    • Kisaka, Shota; Ioka, Kunihito; Kashiyama, Kazumi
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 867, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae30a

    X-Ray Afterglows of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: Magnetar or Fireball?
    journal, February 2019

    • Sarin, Nikhil; Lasky, Paul D.; Ashton, Greg
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 872, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf9a0

    Optimal Search Strategy for Finding Transients in Large-sky Error Regions under Realistic Constraints
    journal, May 2019

    The Lanthanide Fraction Distribution in Metal-poor Stars: A Test of Neutron Star Mergers as the Dominant r -process Site
    journal, August 2019

    • Ji, Alexander P.; Drout, Maria R.; Hansen, Terese T.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 882, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3291

    Diversity of Kilonova Light Curves
    journal, February 2020

    • Kawaguchi, Kyohei; Shibata, Masaru; Tanaka, Masaomi
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 889, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab61f6

    Extended Calculations of Energy Levels and Transition Rates of Nd ii-iv Ions for Application to Neutron Star Mergers
    journal, February 2019

    • Gaigalas, Gediminas; Kato, Daiji; Rynkun, Pavel
    • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 240, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aaf9b8

    Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Observations of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
    journal, July 2018

    • Villar, V. A.; Cowperthwaite, P. S.; Berger, E.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 862, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aad281

    Fading of the X-Ray Afterglow of Neutron Star Merger GW170817/GRB 170817A at 260 Days
    journal, July 2018

    • Nynka, Melania; Ruan, John J.; Haggard, Daryl
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 862, Issue 2
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aad32d

    A Strong Jet Signature in the Late-time Light Curve of GW170817
    journal, November 2018

    Follow-up of the Neutron Star Bearing Gravitational-wave Candidate Events S190425z and S190426c with MMT and SOAR
    journal, July 2019

    • Hosseinzadeh, G.; Cowperthwaite, P. S.; Gomez, S.
    • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 880, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab271c
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