Illuminating Gravitational Waves:
A Concordant Picture of Photons
from a Neutron Star Merger
M. M. Kasliwal
1
∗
, E. Nakar
2
, L. P. Singer
3
,
4
, D. L. Kaplan
5
,
D. O. Cook
1
, A. Van Sistine
5
, R. M. Lau
1
, C. Fremling
1
,
O. Gottlieb
2
, J. E. Jencson
1
, S.M. Adams
1
, U. Feindt
6
, K.
Hotokezaka
7
, S. Ghosh
5
, D. A. Perley
8
, P.-C. Yu
9
, T. Piran
10
,
J. R. Allison
11
,
12
, G. C. Anupama
13
, A.Balasubramanian
14
,
K. W Bannister
15
, J. Bally
16
, J. Barnes
17
, S. Barway
18
, E.
Bellm
19
, V. Bhalerao
20
, D. Bhattacharya
21
, N. Blagorodnova
1
,
J. S. Bloom
22
,
23
, P. R. Brady
5
, C. Cannella
1
, D. Chatterjee
5
,
S. B. Cenko
3
,
4
, B. E. Cobb
24
, C. Copperwheat
8
, A. Corsi
25
,
K. De
1
, D. Dobie
11
,
26
,
15
, S. W. K. Emery
27
, P. A. Evans
28
,
O. D. Fox
29
, D. A. Frail
30
, C. Frohmaier
31
,
32
, A. Goobar
6
,
G. Hallinan
1
, F. Harrison
1
, G. Helou
33
, T. Hinderer
34
,
A. Y. Q. Ho
1
, A. Horesh
10
, W.-H. Ip
9
, R. Itoh
35
, D. Kasen
22
,
36
,
H. Kim
37
, N.P.M. Kuin
27
, T. Kupfer
1
, C. Lynch
11
,
26
,
K. Madsen
1
, P. A. Mazzali
8
,
38
, A. A. Miller
39
,
40
, K. Mooley
41
,
T. Murphy
11
,
26
, C.-C. Ngeow
9
, D. Nichols
34
, S. Nissanke
34
,
P. Nugent
22
,
23
, E. O. Ofek
42
, H. Qi
5
, R. M. Quimby
43
,
44
,
S. Rosswog
45
, F. Rusu
46
, E. M. Sadler
11
,
26
, P. Schmidt
34
,
J. Sollerman
45
, I. Steele
8
, A. R. Williamson
34
, Y. Xu
1
, L.
Yan
1
,
33
, Y. Yatsu
35
, C. Zhang
5
, W. Zhao
46
1
Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
2
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
3
Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
1
arXiv:1710.05436v1 [astro-ph.HE] 16 Oct 2017
Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
∗
To whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: mansi@astro.caltech.edu.
5
Department
of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
6
The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University,
AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
7
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Simons Foundation,
Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Ave, New York, 10010, NY, USA
8
Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University,
IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Browlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5RF, UK
9
Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University,
No. 300, Zhongda Rd., Zhongli Dist., Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
10
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
11
Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28,
The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D)
13
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, II Block Koramangala, Bangalore-560034, India
14
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, India
15
Australia Telescope National Facility, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation, Astronomy and Space Science,
PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
16
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University,
New York, NY, 10027, USA
18
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO),
P.O. Box 9, Observatory, Cape Town 7935, South Africa
19
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
20
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai 400076, India
21
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics,
P. O. Bag 4, Ganeskhind, Pune 411007, India
22
Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA
23
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road,
MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
24
Department of Physics, George Washington University,
Washington, DC 20052, USA
25
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University,
Box 41051, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051, USA
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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO),
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