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most citedSwope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the Optical Counterpart to a Gravitational Wave Source

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM201715 cited

A First Transients Survey with JWST: the FLARE project

Lifan Wang, D. Baade, E. Baron +43

JWST was conceived and built to answer one of the most fundamental questions that humans can address empirically: "How did the Universe make its first stars?". Our First Lights At…

astro-ph.HE20171k cited

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

P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, V. A. Villar +141

We present UV, optical, and NIR photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced LIGO/Virgo, the binary neutron star merger GW170817…

astro-ph.HE2017584 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.HE2017336 cited

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-Time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta

K. D. Alexander, E. Berger, W. Fong +20

We present Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array ALMA radio observations of GW\,170817, the first Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observa…

astro-ph.HE2017576 cited

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

R. Chornock, E. Berger, D. Kasen +26

We present a near-infrared spectral sequence of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 detected by Advanced LIGO/Virgo. Our dataset comprises se…

astro-ph.HE2017115 cited

A Neutron Star Binary Merger Model for GW170817/GRB170817a/SSS17a

Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Charles D. Kilpatrick +14

The merging neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817 has been observed throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to -rays. The resulting energetics,…