Astrophysical: Gravitational waves

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    El IAC descubre un par de estrellas condenadas a explotar como supernova a solo 150 años luz
    Un estudio publicado hoy en Nature Astronomy en el que ha participado el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias detalla el descubrimiento de un sistema binario...
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    Erratum: The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B
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    First gravitational-wave burst GW150914: MASTER optical follow-up observations
    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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    Follow-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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    Gravitational 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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    Hubble 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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    Kicking Time Back in Black Hole Mergers: Ancestral Masses, Spins, Birth Recoils, and Hierarchical-formation Viability of GW190521
    A pair-instability supernova (PISN) prevents black hole (BH) formation from stellar collapse within the approximate mass range M ∈ [65, 130] M ⊙. However, such...
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    Liverpool 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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    Localization 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...