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astro-ph.HE2017★ 584 cited
The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart
M. Soares-Santos, D. E. Holz, J. Annis +142
We present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) discovery of the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817. Our o…
astro-ph.IM2017★ 35 cited
Systematic errors in estimation of gravitational-wave candidate significance
Collin Capano, Thomas Dent, Chad Hanna +4
The statistical significance of a candidate gravitational-wave (GW) event is crucial to the prospects for a confirmed detection, or for its selection as a candidate for follow-up e…
astro-ph.CO2017★ 4 cited
Disentangling the potential dark matter origin of LIGO's black holes
Ryan Magee, Chad Hanna
The nature of dark matter remains one of the biggest open questions in physics. Intriguingly, it has been suggested that dark matter may be explained by another recently observed p…