Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 83559372
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9
- Title of journal
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Article number
- L12
- First page
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- Volume
- 848
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2041-8205
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4,499
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 1,423
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- The paper reports the details of the best 3-dimensionional sky localisation reconstruction of GW170817. It is based on the techniques and software that Vecchio co-developed and that are described in more detail in a paper that he co-authored (PRD 91, 042003, 2015). This led to the swift identification of the optical counterpart of GW170817 which was enabled by the gravitational-wave observation, the association of the event to the gamma-ray burst GRB170817A and the range of follow-up observations. Vecchio was a member of the LIGO-Virgo writing team that wrote the paper.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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