GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
Affiliations
- 1 LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
- 3 Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy.
- 4 INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 5 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
- 6 OzGrav, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia.
- 7 LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA.
- 8 Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France.
- 9 University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy.
- 10 Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 11 The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
- 12 NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
- 13 University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom.
- 14 Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 15 LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
- 16 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 17 Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
- 18 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy.
- 19 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India.
- 20 International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India.
- 21 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
- 22 Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 23 Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 24 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 25 OzGrav, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
- 26 Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 27 SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom.
- 28 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France.
- 29 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA.
- 30 European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy.
- 31 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India.
- 32 Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 33 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 34 Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany.
- 35 INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 36 Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
- 37 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA.
- 38 Max Planck Institute for Gravitationalphysik (Albert Einstein Institute), D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
- 39 APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
- 40 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
- 41 OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia.
- 42 West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.
- 43 Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 44 INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 45 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
- 46 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 47 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
- 48 LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
- 49 Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 50 Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary.
- 51 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 52 Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
- 53 Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- 54 Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy.
- 55 Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 56 INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 57 Institute of Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Budapest 1117, Hungary.
- 58 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland.
- 59 Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma, I-43124 Parma, Italy.
- 60 INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Gruppo Collegato di Parma, I-43124 Parma, Italy.
- 61 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
- 62 University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
- 63 INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 64 RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India.
- 65 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
- 66 SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom.
- 67 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 68 OzGrav, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
- 69 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 70 Artemis, Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire Côte d'Azur, CNRS, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
- 71 Institut FOTON, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France.
- 72 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.
- 73 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
- 74 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 75 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA.
- 76 OzGrav, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
- 77 Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland.
- 78 VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 79 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 80 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
- 81 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 82 Università di Napoli "Federico II", Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 83 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 84 RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
- 85 Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- 86 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
- 87 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA.
- 88 Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
- 89 Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, I-00184 Roma, Italy.
- 90 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China.
- 91 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia.
- 92 Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
- 93 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada.
- 94 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
- 95 Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.
- 96 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong.
- 97 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, I-35122 Padova, Italy.
- 98 INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 99 OzGrav, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
- 100 Università di Roma "La Sapienza", I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 101 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1050, Belgium.
- 102 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA.
- 103 Departamento de Matemáticas, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
- 104 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA.
- 105 Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3-IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- 106 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA.
- 107 Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA.
- 108 Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India.
- 109 The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
- 110 California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA.
- 111 Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 112 Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA.
- 113 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.
- 114 Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de València, E-46980 Paterna, València, Spain.
- 115 School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
- 116 University and Institute of Advanced Research, Koba Institutional Area, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382007, India.
- 117 IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India.
- 118 University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary.
- 119 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
- 120 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India.
- 121 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131, Napoli, Italy.
- 122 Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo" I-61029 Urbino, Italy.
- 123 INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
- 124 Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
- 125 American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
- 126 University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
- 127 University of Biał ystok, 15-424 Biał ystok, Poland.
- 128 University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington 98011, USA.
- 129 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- 130 Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon 34055, Korea.
- 131 Inje University Gimhae, South Gyeongsang 50834, Korea.
- 132 National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 34047, Korea.
- 133 NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland.
- 134 Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00656 Warsaw, Poland.
- 135 Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242, USA.
- 136 Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea.
- 137 Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
- 138 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35811, USA.
- 139 ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 140 Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
- 141 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
- 142 Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 8 quai Antoine Ier, MC-98000, Monaco.
- 143 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
- 144 INFN Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy.
- 145 Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
- 146 IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India.
- 147 Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA.
- 148 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.
- 149 Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
- 150 Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France.
- 151 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA.
- 152 Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland.
- 153 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 154 King's College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
- 155 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India.
- 156 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Khandi, Telangana 502285, India.
- 157 International Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal RN 59078-970, Brazil.
- 158 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA.
- 159 Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy.
- 160 Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA.
- 161 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA.
- 162 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
- PMID: 29099225
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
- 3 Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy.
- 4 INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 5 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
- 6 OzGrav, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia.
- 7 LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA.
- 8 Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France.
- 9 University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy.
- 10 Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 11 The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
- 12 NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
- 13 University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom.
- 14 Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 15 LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
- 16 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 17 Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
- 18 INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy.
- 19 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India.
- 20 International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India.
- 21 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
- 22 Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 23 Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 24 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 25 OzGrav, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
- 26 Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 27 SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom.
- 28 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France.
- 29 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA.
- 30 European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy.
- 31 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India.
- 32 Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 33 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 34 Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany.
- 35 INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 36 Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
- 37 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA.
- 38 Max Planck Institute for Gravitationalphysik (Albert Einstein Institute), D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
- 39 APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
- 40 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
- 41 OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia.
- 42 West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.
- 43 Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 44 INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 45 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
- 46 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 47 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
- 48 LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
- 49 Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 50 Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary.
- 51 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 52 Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
- 53 Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- 54 Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy.
- 55 Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 56 INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 57 Institute of Physics, Eötvös University, Pázmány P. s. 1/A, Budapest 1117, Hungary.
- 58 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland.
- 59 Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche, Università di Parma, I-43124 Parma, Italy.
- 60 INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Gruppo Collegato di Parma, I-43124 Parma, Italy.
- 61 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
- 62 University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
- 63 INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 64 RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India.
- 65 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
- 66 SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom.
- 67 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 68 OzGrav, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
- 69 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 70 Artemis, Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire Côte d'Azur, CNRS, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
- 71 Institut FOTON, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France.
- 72 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.
- 73 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
- 74 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 75 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA.
- 76 OzGrav, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
- 77 Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland.
- 78 VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 79 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 80 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
- 81 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 82 Università di Napoli "Federico II", Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 83 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 84 RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
- 85 Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- 86 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
- 87 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA.
- 88 Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
- 89 Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, I-00184 Roma, Italy.
- 90 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China.
- 91 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia.
- 92 Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
- 93 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada.
- 94 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
- 95 Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea.
- 96 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong.
- 97 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, I-35122 Padova, Italy.
- 98 INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 99 OzGrav, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
- 100 Università di Roma "La Sapienza", I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 101 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1050, Belgium.
- 102 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA.
- 103 Departamento de Matemáticas, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
- 104 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA.
- 105 Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3-IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- 106 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA.
- 107 Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA.
- 108 Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India.
- 109 The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
- 110 California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA.
- 111 Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 112 Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA.
- 113 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.
- 114 Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de València, E-46980 Paterna, València, Spain.
- 115 School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
- 116 University and Institute of Advanced Research, Koba Institutional Area, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382007, India.
- 117 IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India.
- 118 University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary.
- 119 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
- 120 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India.
- 121 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131, Napoli, Italy.
- 122 Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo" I-61029 Urbino, Italy.
- 123 INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
- 124 Physik-Institut, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
- 125 American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
- 126 University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
- 127 University of Biał ystok, 15-424 Biał ystok, Poland.
- 128 University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington 98011, USA.
- 129 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- 130 Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon 34055, Korea.
- 131 Inje University Gimhae, South Gyeongsang 50834, Korea.
- 132 National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 34047, Korea.
- 133 NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland.
- 134 Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00656 Warsaw, Poland.
- 135 Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242, USA.
- 136 Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea.
- 137 Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
- 138 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35811, USA.
- 139 ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 140 Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
- 141 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
- 142 Centre Scientifique de Monaco, 8 quai Antoine Ier, MC-98000, Monaco.
- 143 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India.
- 144 INFN Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy.
- 145 Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
- 146 IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India.
- 147 Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA.
- 148 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India.
- 149 Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
- 150 Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France.
- 151 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA.
- 152 Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland.
- 153 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 154 King's College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
- 155 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India.
- 156 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Sangareddy, Khandi, Telangana 502285, India.
- 157 International Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal RN 59078-970, Brazil.
- 158 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA.
- 159 Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy.
- 160 Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA.
- 161 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA.
- 162 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
- PMID: 29099225
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
Abstract
On August 17, 2017 at 12∶41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of 32.4 and a false-alarm-rate estimate of less than one per 8.0×10^{4} years. We infer the component masses of the binary to be between 0.86 and 2.26 M_{⊙}, in agreement with masses of known neutron stars. Restricting the component spins to the range inferred in binary neutron stars, we find the component masses to be in the range 1.17-1.60 M_{⊙}, with the total mass of the system 2.74_{-0.01}^{+0.04}M_{⊙}. The source was localized within a sky region of 28 deg^{2} (90% probability) and had a luminosity distance of 40_{-14}^{+8} Mpc, the closest and most precisely localized gravitational-wave signal yet. The association with the γ-ray burst GRB 170817A, detected by Fermi-GBM 1.7 s after the coalescence, corroborates the hypothesis of a neutron star merger and provides the first direct evidence of a link between these mergers and short γ-ray bursts. Subsequent identification of transient counterparts across the electromagnetic spectrum in the same location further supports the interpretation of this event as a neutron star merger. This unprecedented joint gravitational and electromagnetic observation provides insight into astrophysics, dense matter, gravitation, and cosmology.
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