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Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source.
Coulter, D A; Foley, R J; Kilpatrick, C D; Drout, M R; Piro, A L; Shappee, B J; Siebert, M R; Simon, J D; Ulloa, N; Kasen, D; Madore, B F; Murguia-Berthier, A; Pan, Y-C; Prochaska, J X; Ramirez-Ruiz, E; Rest, A; Rojas-Bravo, C.
  • Coulter DA; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. dcoulter@ucsc.edu.
  • Foley RJ; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  • Kilpatrick CD; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  • Drout MR; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
  • Piro AL; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
  • Shappee BJ; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
  • Siebert MR; Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
  • Simon JD; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  • Ulloa N; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
  • Kasen D; Departamento de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile.
  • Madore BF; Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • Murguia-Berthier A; Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • Pan YC; Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.
  • Prochaska JX; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
  • Ramirez-Ruiz E; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  • Rest A; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
  • Rojas-Bravo C; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Science ; 358(6370): 1556-1558, 2017 12 22.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29038368
ABSTRACT
On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating from a binary neutron star merger, GW170817. Nearly simultaneously, the Fermi and INTEGRAL (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) telescopes detected a gamma-ray transient, GRB 170817A. At 10.9 hours after the GW trigger, we discovered a transient and fading optical source, Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), coincident with GW170817. SSS17a is located in NGC 4993, an S0 galaxy at a distance of 40 megaparsecs. The precise location of GW170817 provides an opportunity to probe the nature of these cataclysmic events by combining electromagnetic and GW observations.
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