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Title: GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Contributing Org.:
GROWTH Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1574354
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1638253
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; HST-HF2-51408.001-A; 1545949; AC02-76SF00515; FOA-0001088; PHY-1607611; G.R.E.A.T; 1829740; ASTRO18F-0085; AST-1816492; 201406660015; 107-2628-M-007-003; 108-2628-M-007-005-RSP; 2014/14/A/ST9/00121; 80NSSC18K0565; PHY1806278
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 890; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Neutron stars; Binary stars; Gravitational wave sources; Gravitational waves; Transient sources; Black hole physics; Observational astronomy

Citation Formats

Andreoni, Igor, Goldstein, Daniel A., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nugent, Peter E., Zhou, Rongpu, Newman, Jeffrey A., Bulla, Mattia, Foucart, Francois, Hotokezaka, Kenta, Nakar, Ehud, Nissanke, Samaya, Raaijmakers, Geert, Bloom, Joshua S., De, Kishalay, Jencson, Jacob E., Ward, Charlotte, Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Buckley, David A. H., Caballero-García, Maria D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Copperwheat, Christopher M., Coughlin, Michael W., Cenko, S. Bradley, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Hu, Youdong, Karambelkar, Viraj R., Perley, Daniel A., Sharma, Yashvi, Valeev, Azamat F., Cook, David O., Fremling, U. Christoffer, Kumar, Harsh, Taggart, Kirsty, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Cooke, Jeff, Dahiwale, Aishwarya, Dhawan, Suhail, Dobie, Dougal, Gatkine, Pradip, Golkhou, V. Zach, Goobar, Ariel, Chaves, Andreas Guerra, Hankins, Matthew, Kaplan, David L., Kong, Albert K. H., Kool, Erik C., Mohite, Siddharth, Sollerman, Jesper, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Webb, Sara, and Zhang, Keming. GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a1b.
Andreoni, Igor, Goldstein, Daniel A., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nugent, Peter E., Zhou, Rongpu, Newman, Jeffrey A., Bulla, Mattia, Foucart, Francois, Hotokezaka, Kenta, Nakar, Ehud, Nissanke, Samaya, Raaijmakers, Geert, Bloom, Joshua S., De, Kishalay, Jencson, Jacob E., Ward, Charlotte, Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Buckley, David A. H., Caballero-García, Maria D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Copperwheat, Christopher M., Coughlin, Michael W., Cenko, S. Bradley, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Hu, Youdong, Karambelkar, Viraj R., Perley, Daniel A., Sharma, Yashvi, Valeev, Azamat F., Cook, David O., Fremling, U. Christoffer, Kumar, Harsh, Taggart, Kirsty, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Cooke, Jeff, Dahiwale, Aishwarya, Dhawan, Suhail, Dobie, Dougal, Gatkine, Pradip, Golkhou, V. Zach, Goobar, Ariel, Chaves, Andreas Guerra, Hankins, Matthew, Kaplan, David L., Kong, Albert K. H., Kool, Erik C., Mohite, Siddharth, Sollerman, Jesper, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Webb, Sara, & Zhang, Keming. GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a1b
Andreoni, Igor, Goldstein, Daniel A., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nugent, Peter E., Zhou, Rongpu, Newman, Jeffrey A., Bulla, Mattia, Foucart, Francois, Hotokezaka, Kenta, Nakar, Ehud, Nissanke, Samaya, Raaijmakers, Geert, Bloom, Joshua S., De, Kishalay, Jencson, Jacob E., Ward, Charlotte, Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Buckley, David A. H., Caballero-García, Maria D., Castro-Tirado, Alberto J., Copperwheat, Christopher M., Coughlin, Michael W., Cenko, S. Bradley, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Hu, Youdong, Karambelkar, Viraj R., Perley, Daniel A., Sharma, Yashvi, Valeev, Azamat F., Cook, David O., Fremling, U. Christoffer, Kumar, Harsh, Taggart, Kirsty, Bagdasaryan, Ashot, Cooke, Jeff, Dahiwale, Aishwarya, Dhawan, Suhail, Dobie, Dougal, Gatkine, Pradip, Golkhou, V. Zach, Goobar, Ariel, Chaves, Andreas Guerra, Hankins, Matthew, Kaplan, David L., Kong, Albert K. H., Kool, Erik C., Mohite, Siddharth, Sollerman, Jesper, Tzanidakis, Anastasios, Webb, Sara, and Zhang, Keming. Thu . "GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a1b. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1574354.
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