Making Sense of Nothing
arXiv:2110.12074 · doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0643-5
Abstract
A model of the optical light detected following the merger of two neutron stars reveals polarization to be a unique probe of the geometry of the kilonova explosion that accompanied the gravitational waves.
Nature Astronomy News & Views article; accompanied Bulla et al. (2019, Nat. Astron., 3, 99-106)
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