2017Sci...358.1565E

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2017Sci...358.1565E - Science, 358, 1565-1570 (2017)

Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova.

EVANS P.A., CENKO S.B., KENNEA J.A., EMERY S.W.K., KUIN N.P.M., KOROBKIN O., WOLLAEGER R.T., FRYER C.L., MADSEN K.K., HARRISON F.A., XU Y., NAKAR E., HOTOKEZAKA K., LIEN A., CAMPANA S., OATES S.R., TROJA E., BREEVELD A.A., MARSHALL F.E., BARTHELMY S.D., BEARDMORE A.P., BURROWS D.N., CUSUMANO G., D'AI A., D'AVANZO P., D'ELIA V., DE PASQUALE M., EVEN W.P., FONTES C.J., FORSTER K., GARCIA J., GIOMMI P., GREFENSTETTE B., GRONWALL C., HARTMANN D.H., HEIDA M., HUNGERFORD A.L., KASLIWAL M.M., KRIMM H.A., LEVAN A.J., MALESANI D., MELANDRI A., MIYASAKA H., NOUSEK J.A., O'BRIEN P.T., OSBORNE J.P., PAGANI C., PAGE K.L., PALMER D.M., PERRI M., PIKE S., RACUSIN J.L., ROSSWOG S., SIEGEL M.H., SAKAMOTO T., SBARUFATTI B., TAGLIAFERRI G., TANVIR N.R. and TOHUVAVOHU A.

Abstract (from CDS):

With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics began. A complete picture of compact object mergers, however, requires the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. We report ultraviolet (UV) and x-ray observations by

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N	Identifier	Otype	ICRS (J2000) RA	ICRS (J2000) DEC	Mag U	Mag B	Mag V	Mag R	Mag I	Sp type	#ref 1850 - 2026	#notes
1	NGC 4993	Sy2	13 09 47.6908761600	-23 23 02.314044636		13.34		11.92		~	397	0
2	GrW 170817	GWE	13 09 48.0850	-23 22 53.343						~	2683	0

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