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Title: The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
OSTI Identifier:
1421833
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1407127; OSTI ID: 1409348; OSTI ID: 1422480
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1710.05840; FERMILAB-PUB-17-470-A-AE-CD-PPD
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213; ark:/13030/qt0wc6v6pt; TRN: US1801566
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online); Journal Volume: 848; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; binaries: close; catalogs; gravitational waves; stars: neutron; surveys

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Cowperthwaite, P. S., Berger, E., Villar, V. A., Metzger, B. D., Nicholl, M., Chornock, R., Blanchard, P. K., Fong, W., Margutti, R., Soares-Santos, M., Alexander, K. D., Allam, S., Annis, J., Brout, D., Brown, D. A., Butler, R. E., Chen, H. -Y., Diehl, H. T., Doctor, Z., Drout, M. R., Eftekhari, T., Farr, B., Finley, D. A., Foley, R. J., Frieman, J. A., Fryer, C. L., García-Bellido, J., Gill, M. S. S., Guillochon, J., Herner, K., Holz, D. E., Kasen, D., Kessler, R., Marriner, J., Matheson, T., Neilsen, E. H., Quataert, E., Palmese, A., Rest, A., Sako, M., Scolnic, D. M., Smith, N., Tucker, D. L., Williams, P. K. G., Balbinot, E., Carlin, J. L., Cook, E. R., Durret, F., Li, T. S., Lopes, P. A. A., Lourenço, A. C. C., Marshall, J. L., Medina, G. E., Muir, J., Muñoz, R. R., Sauseda, M., Schlegel, D. J., Secco, L. F., Vivas, A. K., Wester, W., Zenteno, A., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Banerji, M., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Castander, F. J., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., Costa, L. N. da, Davis, C., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Goldstein, D. A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. W. G., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Krause, E., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Nuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Martini, P., McMahon, R. G., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L. C., Plazas, A. A., Roe, N., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R. C., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Thomas, R. C., Troxel, M. A., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., and Zuntz, J. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa8fc7.
Cowperthwaite, P. S., Berger, E., Villar, V. A., Metzger, B. D., Nicholl, M., Chornock, R., Blanchard, P. K., Fong, W., Margutti, R., Soares-Santos, M., Alexander, K. D., Allam, S., Annis, J., Brout, D., Brown, D. A., Butler, R. E., Chen, H. -Y., Diehl, H. T., Doctor, Z., Drout, M. R., Eftekhari, T., Farr, B., Finley, D. A., Foley, R. J., Frieman, J. A., Fryer, C. L., García-Bellido, J., Gill, M. S. S., Guillochon, J., Herner, K., Holz, D. E., Kasen, D., Kessler, R., Marriner, J., Matheson, T., Neilsen, E. H., Quataert, E., Palmese, A., Rest, A., Sako, M., Scolnic, D. M., Smith, N., Tucker, D. L., Williams, P. K. G., Balbinot, E., Carlin, J. L., Cook, E. R., Durret, F., Li, T. S., Lopes, P. A. A., Lourenço, A. C. C., Marshall, J. L., Medina, G. E., Muir, J., Muñoz, R. R., Sauseda, M., Schlegel, D. J., Secco, L. F., Vivas, A. K., Wester, W., Zenteno, A., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Banerji, M., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Castander, F. J., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., Costa, L. N. da, Davis, C., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Goldstein, D. A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. W. G., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Krause, E., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Nuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Martini, P., McMahon, R. G., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L. C., Plazas, A. A., Roe, N., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R. C., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Thomas, R. C., Troxel, M. A., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., & Zuntz, J. The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8fc7
Cowperthwaite, P. S., Berger, E., Villar, V. A., Metzger, B. D., Nicholl, M., Chornock, R., Blanchard, P. K., Fong, W., Margutti, R., Soares-Santos, M., Alexander, K. D., Allam, S., Annis, J., Brout, D., Brown, D. A., Butler, R. E., Chen, H. -Y., Diehl, H. T., Doctor, Z., Drout, M. R., Eftekhari, T., Farr, B., Finley, D. A., Foley, R. J., Frieman, J. A., Fryer, C. L., García-Bellido, J., Gill, M. S. S., Guillochon, J., Herner, K., Holz, D. E., Kasen, D., Kessler, R., Marriner, J., Matheson, T., Neilsen, E. H., Quataert, E., Palmese, A., Rest, A., Sako, M., Scolnic, D. M., Smith, N., Tucker, D. L., Williams, P. K. G., Balbinot, E., Carlin, J. L., Cook, E. R., Durret, F., Li, T. S., Lopes, P. A. A., Lourenço, A. C. C., Marshall, J. L., Medina, G. E., Muir, J., Muñoz, R. R., Sauseda, M., Schlegel, D. J., Secco, L. F., Vivas, A. K., Wester, W., Zenteno, A., Zhang, Y., Abbott, T. M. C., Banerji, M., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Capozzi, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Castander, F. J., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., Costa, L. N. da, Davis, C., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Evrard, A. E., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Goldstein, D. A., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. W. G., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Krause, E., Kron, R., Kuehn, K., Nuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Martini, P., McMahon, R. G., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Nichol, R. C., Ogando, R. L. C., Plazas, A. A., Roe, N., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R. C., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Thomas, R. C., Troxel, M. A., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., and Zuntz, J. Mon . "The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8fc7. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1421833.
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The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks
journal, July 2018

  • Giacobbo, Nicola; Mapelli, Michela
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 480, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1999

Disc formation in the collapse of supramassive neutron stars
journal, August 2018

  • Camelio, Giovanni; Dietrich, Tim; Rosswog, Stephan
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 480, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2181

Unveiling the engines of fast radio bursts, superluminous supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts
journal, September 2018

  • Margalit, Ben; Metzger, Brian D.; Berger, Edo
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2417

GW170817: implications for the local kilonova rate and for surveys from ground-based facilities
journal, September 2018

  • Della Valle, M.; Guetta, D.; Cappellaro, E.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2541

The host galaxies of double compact objects merging in the local Universe
journal, October 2018

  • Mapelli, Michela; Giacobbo, Nicola; Toffano, Mattia
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2663

Coupled axisymmetric pulsar magnetospheres
journal, October 2018

  • Gourgouliatos, Konstantinos N.; Lynden-Bell, Donald
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 482, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2766

Implications of the radio and X-ray emission that followed GW170817
journal, April 2018

  • Nakar, Ehud; Piran, Tsvi
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 478, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty952

Double neutron star formation: merger times, systemic velocities, and travel distances
journal, April 2019

  • Andrews, Jeff J.; Zezas, Andreas
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 486, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1066

Using failed supernovae to constrain the Galactic r-process element production
journal, May 2019

  • Wehmeyer, B.; Fröhlich, C.; Côté, B.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1310

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

Detectability of neutron star merger afterglows
journal, July 2019

  • Gottlieb, Ore; Nakar, Ehud; Piran, Tsvi
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 488, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1906

The host galaxies of double compact objects across cosmic time
journal, September 2019

  • Toffano, Mattia; Mapelli, Michela; Giacobbo, Nicola
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2415

The role of magnetic field geometry in the evolution of neutron star merger accretion discs
journal, September 2019

  • Christie, I. M.; Lalakos, A.; Tchekhovskoy, A.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2552

Neutron star binary orbits in their host potential: effect on early r-process enrichment
journal, September 2019

  • Bonetti, Matteo; Perego, Albino; Dotti, Massimo
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2554

Non-thermal afterglow of the binary neutron star merger GW170817: a more natural modelling of electron energy distribution leads to a qualitatively different new solution
journal, February 2019

  • Lin, Haoxiang; Totani, Tomonori; Kiuchi, Kenta
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz453

A multiwavelength analysis of a collection of short-duration GRBs observed between 2012 and 2015
journal, February 2019

  • Pandey, S. B.; Hu, Y.; Castro-Tirado, Ao J.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz530

A comparison between SALT/SAAO observations and kilonova models for AT 2017gfo: the first electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational wave transient − GW170817
journal, December 2017

  • Buckley, David A. H.; Andreoni, Igor; Barway, Sudhanshu
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Vol. 474, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx196

G4.8+6.2, a possible kilonova remnant?
journal, September 2019

  • Liu, Yu; Zou, Yuan-Chuan; Jiang, Bing
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Vol. 490, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slz141

Are fast radio bursts the most likely electromagnetic counterpart of neutron star mergers resulting in prompt collapse?
journal, August 2019


Implications from GW170817 and I-Love-Q relations for relativistic hybrid stars
journal, April 2018


Laboratory constraints
journal, November 2018

  • Brax, Philippe; Burrage, Clare; Davis, Anne-Christine
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 27, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1142/s0218271818480097

Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints
text, January 2018

  • Biehl, Daniel; Heinze, Jonas; Winter, W.
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-01377

A Magnetar Origin for the Kilonova Ejecta in GW170817
journal, March 2018

  • Metzger, Brian D.; Thompson, Todd A.; Quataert, Eliot
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 856, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab095

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

Three-dimensional GRMHD Simulations of Neutrino-cooled Accretion Disks from Neutron Star Mergers
journal, May 2018


On the Rate and on the Gravitational Wave Emission of Short and Long GRBs
journal, May 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

Are Small Radii of Compact Stars Ruled out by GW170817/AT2017gfo?
journal, June 2018


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

On GW170817 and the Galactic Binary Neutron Star Population
journal, October 2018


The R -Process Alliance: A Comprehensive Abundance Analysis of HD 222925, a Metal-poor Star with an Extreme R -process Enhancement of [Eu/H] = −0.14
journal, October 2018

  • Roederer, Ian U.; Sakari, Charli M.; Placco, Vinicius M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 865, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aadd92

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

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


β -delayed Fission in r -process Nucleosynthesis
journal, December 2018

  • Mumpower, M. R.; Kawano, T.; Sprouse, T. M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 869, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaeaca

Actinide Production in the Neutron-rich Ejecta of a Neutron Star Merger
journal, December 2018

  • Holmbeck, Erika M.; Sprouse, Trevor M.; Mumpower, Matthew R.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 870, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaefef

Origin of the CEMP-no Group Morphology in the Milky Way
journal, June 2019


Galactic r -process Abundance Feature Shaped by Radial Migration
journal, June 2019


Probing the Production of Actinides under Different r-process Conditions
journal, July 2019


Finding the Remnants of the Milky Way's Last Neutron Star Mergers
journal, July 2019

  • Wu, Meng-Ru; Banerjee, Projjwal; Metzger, Brian D.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 880, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2593

Actinide-rich and Actinide-poor r -process-enhanced Metal-poor Stars Do Not Require Separate r -process Progenitors
journal, August 2019

  • Holmbeck, Erika M.; Frebel, Anna; McLaughlin, G. C.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 881, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2a01

Jet–Cocoon Outflows from Neutron Star Mergers: Structure, Light Curves, and Fundamental Physics
journal, August 2019


A Pulsar Wind Nebula Embedded in the Kilonova AT 2017gfo Associated with GW170817/GRB 170817A
journal, October 2019


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

r -process Enrichment in the Galactic Halo Characterized by Nucleosynthesis Variation in the Ejecta of Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries
journal, January 2020

  • Tsujimoto, Takuji; Nishimura, Nobuya; Kyutoku, Koutarou
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 889, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab655c

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


Neutron-star Radius Constraints from GW170817 and Future Detections
journal, November 2017

  • Bauswein, Andreas; Just, Oliver; Janka, Hans-Thomas
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 850, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9994

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

A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations
journal, February 2018

  • Cantiello, Michele; Jensen, J. B.; Blakeslee, J. P.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 854, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaad64

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


The R -Process Alliance: 2MASS J09544277+5246414, the Most Actinide-enhanced R -II Star Known
journal, June 2018

  • Holmbeck, Erika M.; Beers, Timothy C.; Roederer, Ian U.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 859, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aac722

What Powered the Optical Transient AT2017gfo Associated with GW170817?
journal, July 2018


Early Chemical Evolution of Zn Driven by Magnetorotational Supernovae and the Pathway to the Solar Zn Composition
journal, August 2018


Viscous-dynamical Ejecta from Binary Neutron Star Mergers
journal, December 2018

  • Radice, David; Perego, Albino; Hotokezaka, Kenta
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 869, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaf053

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

GROWTH on S190426c: Real-time Search for a Counterpart to the Probable Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger using an Automated Difference Imaging Pipeline for DECam
journal, August 2019

  • Goldstein, Daniel A.; Andreoni, Igor; Nugent, Peter E.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 881, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab3046

The Optical Afterglow of GW170817: An Off-axis Structured Jet and Deep Constraints on a Globular Cluster Origin
journal, September 2019

  • Fong, W.; Blanchard, P. K.; Alexander, K. D.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 883, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab3d9e

Spiral-wave Wind for the Blue Kilonova
journal, November 2019

  • Nedora, Vsevolod; Bernuzzi, Sebastiano; Radice, David
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 886, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab5794

The origin of polarization in kilonovae and the case of the gravitational-wave counterpart AT 2017gfo
journal, November 2018


Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning
journal, October 2019


Evidence for ≳4 Gyr timescales of neutron star mergers from Galactic archaeology
journal, January 2020


Neutron star universal relations with microscopic equations of state
journal, January 2019

  • Wei, J-B; Figura, A.; Burgio, G. F.
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/aaf95c

Numerical relativity of compact binaries in the 21st century
journal, November 2018


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

Rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey
journal, August 2018

  • Pursiainen, M.; Childress, M.; Smith, M.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2309

Outflows from black hole hyperaccretion systems: short and long-short gamma-ray bursts and ‘quasi-supernovae’
journal, March 2018

  • Song, Cui-Ying; Liu, Tong; Li, Ang
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 477, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty783

Host galaxies of merging compact objects: mass, star formation rate, metallicity, and colours
journal, May 2019

  • Artale, M. Celeste; Mapelli, Michela; Giacobbo, Nicola
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1382

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

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

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

Probing the extragalactic fast transient sky at minute time-scales with DECam
journal, December 2019

  • Andreoni, I.; Cooke, J.; Webb, S.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 491, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3381

Testing the cosmic distance-duality relation from future gravitational wave standard sirens
journal, April 2019


Neutron stars in frames of R2-gravity and gravitational waves
journal, January 2019

  • Astashenok, Artyom V.; Baigashov, Alexey S.; Lapin, Sergey A.
  • International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Vol. 16, Issue 01
  • DOI: 10.1142/s021988781950004x

Kinematics of Highly r -process-enhanced Field Stars: Evidence for an Accretion Origin and Detection of Several Groups from Disrupted Satellites
journal, October 2018

  • Roederer, Ian U.; Hattori, Kohei; Valluri, Monica
  • The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 156, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aadd9c

Background-limited Imaging in the Near Infrared with Warm InGaAs Sensors: Applications for Time-domain Astronomy
journal, January 2019

  • Simcoe, Robert A.; Fűrész, Gábor; Sullivan, Peter W.
  • The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 157, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aae094

Subsequent Nonthermal Emission Due to the Kilonova Ejecta in GW170817
journal, January 2018


An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events
journal, April 2018


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

From γ to Radio: The Electromagnetic Counterpart of GW170817
journal, October 2018


New Thermonuclear 10 B( α , p ) 13 C Rate and Its Astrophysical Implication in the νp -process
journal, November 2018


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


Radioactive Heating and Late Time Kilonova Light Curves
journal, May 2019


On Neutron Star Mergers as the Source of r -process-enhanced Metal-poor Stars in the Milky Way
journal, April 2019

  • Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher; Sarmento, Richard; Scannapieco, Evan
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 876, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1341

When Did the Remnant of GW170817 Collapse to a Black Hole?
journal, May 2019

  • Gill, Ramandeep; Nathanail, Antonios; Rezzolla, Luciano
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 876, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab16da

Late-time Kilonova Light Curves and Implications to GW170817
journal, June 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

Double Neutron Star Mergers from Hierarchical Triple-star Systems
journal, September 2019


Enrichment of Strontium in Dwarf Galaxies
journal, October 2019

  • Hirai, Yutaka; Wanajo, Shinya; Saitoh, Takayuki R.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4654

Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
journal, November 2019


AT 2017gfo: An Anisotropic and Three-component Kilonova Counterpart of GW170817
journal, November 2017

  • Perego, Albino; Radice, David; Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 850, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9ab9

GW170817: Joint Constraint on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Multimessenger Observations
journal, January 2018

  • Radice, David; Perego, Albino; Zappa, Francesco
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 852, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aaa402

How Special Is GRB 170817A?
journal, January 2018


Brightening X-Ray/Optical/Radio Emission of GW170817/SGRB 170817A: Evidence for an Electron–Positron Wind from the Central Engine?
journal, March 2018

  • Geng, Jin-Jun; Dai, Zi-Gao; Huang, Yong-Feng
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 856, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aab7f9

GW170817 Most Likely Made a Black Hole
journal, May 2018

  • Pooley, David; Kumar, Pawan; Wheeler, J. Craig
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 859, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aac3d6

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


Constraining Collapsar r -process Models through Stellar Abundances
journal, May 2019


Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
journal, September 2019


Can Kilonova Light Curves Be Standardized?
journal, November 2019

  • Kashyap, Rahul; Raman, Gayathri; Ajith, Parameswaran
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 886, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab543f

Presto-Color: A Photometric Survey Cadence for Explosive Physics and Fast Transients
journal, April 2019

  • Bianco, Federica B.; Drout, Maria R.; Graham, Melissa L.
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 131, Issue 1000
  • DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab121a

The impact of electron-capture supernovae on merging double neutron stars
journal, October 2018

  • Giacobbo, Nicola; Mapelli, Michela
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 482, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2848

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger
journal, October 2017


Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints
text, January 2018

  • Biehl, Daniel; Heinze, Jonas; Winter, Walter
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-01274

Mass Ejection from the Remnant of a Binary Neutron Star Merger: Viscous-radiation Hydrodynamics Study
journal, June 2018

  • Fujibayashi, Sho; Kiuchi, Kenta; Nishimura, Nobuya
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 860, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabafd

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

LSST Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Events: Essential and Efficient
journal, March 2019

  • Cowperthwaite, P. S.; Villar, V. A.; Scolnic, D. M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 874, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab07b6

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


r -process nucleosynthesis: connecting rare-isotope beam facilities with the cosmos
journal, July 2019

  • Horowitz, C. J.; Arcones, A.; Côté, B.
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab0849

Using excitation-energy dependent fission yields to identify key fissioning nuclei in r -process nucleosynthesis
journal, April 2019

  • Vassh, N.; Vogt, R.; Surman, R.
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab0bea

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

Spectral classification of gravitational-wave emission and equation of state constraints in binary neutron star mergers
journal, September 2019

  • Bauswein, A.; Stergioulas, N.
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 46, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab2b90

Long-lived remnants from binary neutron star mergers
journal, September 2018

  • Radice, David; Perego, Albino; Bernuzzi, Sebastiano
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 481, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2531

Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints
journal, February 2018

  • Biehl, D.; Heinze, J.; Winter, W.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 476, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty285

Merging black holes in young star clusters
journal, May 2019

  • Di Carlo, Ugo N.; Giacobbo, Nicola; Mapelli, Michela
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1453

An unusual transient following the short GRB 071227
journal, July 2019

  • Eyles, R. A. J.; O’Brien, P. T.; Wiersema, K.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 489, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2040

Beyond second-order convergence in simulations of magnetized binary neutron stars with realistic microphysics
journal, October 2019

  • Most, E. R.; Papenfort, L. Jens; Rezzolla, L.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2809

Serendipitous discoveries of kilonovae in the LSST main survey: maximizing detections of sub-threshold gravitational wave events
journal, February 2019

  • Setzer, Christian N.; Biswas, Rahul; Peiris, Hiranya V.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz506

Jet launching from binary black hole-neutron star mergers: Dependence on black hole spin, binary mass ratio, and magnetic field orientation
journal, December 2018


Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant
other, January 2020

  • Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.
  • Bristol : IOP Publishing Ltd.
  • DOI: 10.15488/11395

The Merger of Two Compact Stars: A Tool for Dense Matter Nuclear Physics
journal, March 2018


Physical Conditions for the r -process. I. Radioactive Energy Sources of Kilonovae
journal, November 2018


GW170817: The Energy Extraction Process of the Off-axis Relativistic Outflow and the Constraint on the Equation of State of Neutron Stars
journal, May 2019

  • Wang, Yuan-Zhu; Shao, Dong-Sheng; Jiang, Jin-Liang
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 877, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab1914

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


Can Neutron-star Mergers Explain the r -process Enrichment in Globular Clusters?
journal, November 2019

  • Zevin, Michael; Kremer, Kyle; Siegel, Daniel M.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 886, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab498b

Fast Radio Bursts from Magnetars Born in Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Accretion Induced Collapse
journal, November 2019

  • Margalit, Ben; Berger, Edo; Metzger, Brian D.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 886, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c31

On the Observability of Individual Population III Stars and Their Stellar-mass Black Hole Accretion Disks through Cluster Caustic Transits
journal, February 2018

  • Windhorst, Rogier A.; Timmes, F. X.; Wyithe, J. Stuart B.
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 234, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aaa760

GROWTH on S190510g: DECam Observation Planning and Follow-up of a Distant Binary Neutron Star Merger Candidate
journal, August 2019

  • Andreoni, Igor; Goldstein, Daniel A.; Anand, Shreya
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 881, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab3399

The X-shooter GRB afterglow legacy sample (XS-GRB)
journal, March 2019


Default Parallels: The Science Potential of JWST Parallel Observations during TSO Primary Observations
journal, October 2019

  • Holwerda, B. W.; Fraine, Jonathan; Mouawad, Nelly
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 131, Issue 1005
  • DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ab3356

Imprints of r-process heating on fall-back accretion: distinguishing black hole–neutron star from double neutron star mergers
journal, March 2019

  • Desai, D.; Metzger, B. D.; Foucart, F.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 485, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz644

Numerical Simulations of the Jet Dynamics and Synchrotron Radiation of Binary Neutron Star Merger Event GW170817/GRB 170817A
journal, August 2018

  • Xie, Xiaoyi; Zrake, Jonathan; MacFadyen, Andrew
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 863, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aacf9c

Neutron Star Mergers Might Not Be the Only Source of r -process Elements in the Milky Way
journal, April 2019

  • Côté, Benoit; Eichler, Marius; Arcones, Almudena
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 875, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab10db

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

Improved Constraints on H 0 from a Combined Analysis of Gravitational-wave and Electromagnetic Emission from GW170817
journal, December 2017


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

Radiative Transfer Simulation for the Optical and Near-infrared Electromagnetic Counterparts to GW170817
journal, September 2018

  • Kawaguchi, Kyohei; Shibata, Masaru; Tanaka, Masaomi
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 865, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aade02

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

SuperBol: A User-friendly Python Routine for Bolometric Light Curves
journal, October 2018


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


On-axis view of GRB 170817A
journal, July 2019


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

  • Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.
  • College Park, MD : American Physical Society
  • DOI: 10.15488/11396

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


On the rate and on the gravitational wave emission of short and long GRBs
text, January 2016


Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational wave event
text, January 2017


A long-lived remnant neutron star after GW170817 inferred from its associated kilonova
text, January 2017


Mass Ejection from the Remnant of a Binary Neutron Star Merger: Viscous-Radiation Hydrodynamics Study
text, January 2017


Brightening X-ray Emission from GW170817/GRB170817A: Further Evidence for an Outflow
text, January 2017


A magnetar origin for the kilonova ejecta in GW170817
text, January 2018


A turnover in the radio light curve of GW170817
text, January 2018


The R-Process Alliance: 2MASS J09544277+5246414, the Most Actinide-Enhanced R-II Star Known
text, January 2018


Numerical Relativity of Compact Binaries in the 21st Century
text, January 2018


Multimessenger Parameter Estimation of GW170817
text, January 2018


Late time kilonova light curves and implications to GW 170817
text, January 2019


Short GRB 160821B: a reverse shock, a refreshed shock, and a well-sampled kilonova
text, January 2019


Galactic r-process abundance feature shaped by radial migration
text, January 2019


The host galaxies of double compact objects across cosmic time
text, January 2019


Plerion model of the X-ray plateau in short gamma-ray bursts
preprint, January 2019


A rapidly declining transient discovered with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam
text, January 2019


Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning
text, January 2019


Kilonovae
journal, December 2019