The Advanced LIGO observatory recently reported the first direct detection of the gravitational waves (GWs) predicted by Einstein & Sitzungsber. We report on...
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PublicaciónFirst gravitational-wave burst GW150914: MASTER optical follow-up observations
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PublicaciónFollow-up Survey for the Binary Black Hole Merger GW200224_222234 Using Subaru/HSC and GTC/OSIRIS
The LIGO/Virgo detected a gravitational wave (GW) event, named GW200224_222234 (also known as S200224ca) and classified as a binary-black hole coalescence, on...
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CharlaGravitational waves: a new window onto the Universe
Over the next decade or so, the gravitational-wave window onto the Universe will be opened in four frequency bands that span 22 orders of magnitude: The high...
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PublicaciónHubble constant and nuclear equation of state from kilonova spectro-photometric light curves
The merger of two compact objects of which at least one is a neutron star is signalled by transient electromagnetic emission in a kilonova (KN). This event is...
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PublicaciónLiverpool telescope 2: a new robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up
The Liverpool Telescope is one of the world's premier facilities for time domain astronomy. The time domain landscape is set to radically change in the coming...
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PublicaciónLocalization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914
A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015...
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PublicaciónLOFAR 144-MHz follow-up observations of GW170817
We present low-radio-frequency follow-up observations of AT 2017gfo, the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817, which was the first binary neutron star merger...
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PublicaciónMass constraints to Sco X-1 from Bowen fluorescence and deep near-infrared spectroscopy
More than 50 years after the dawn of X-ray astronomy, the dynamical parameters of the prototypical X-ray binary Sco X-1 are still unknown. We combine a Monte...
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PublicaciónMASTER Optical Detection of the First LIGO/Virgo Neutron Star Binary Merger GW170817
Following the discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW170817 by three Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)/Virgo antennae (Abbott et...