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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 119, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
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- United States National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Advanced LIGO
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom
- Max-Planck-Society (MPS)
- State of Niedersachsen, Germany
- Australian Research Council
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- EGO consortium
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India
- Department of Science and Technology, India
- Science AMP
- Engineering Research Board (SERB), India
- Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
- Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion
- Vicepresidencia i Conselleria d'Innovacio, Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d'Educacio i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears
- Conselleria d'Educacio, Investigacio, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana
- National Science Centre of Poland
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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- Russian Science Foundation
- European Commission
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- Royal Society
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO)
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFI)
- National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications
- International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- Leverhulme Trust
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- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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- Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea [K-16-L01-C06] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Ministry of Science & ICT (MSIT), Republic of Korea [K-17-L01-C02] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0018156] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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On August 17, 2017 at 12:41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of 32.4 and a false-alarm-rate estimate of less than one per 8.0 x 10(4) years. We infer the component masses of the binary to be between 0.86 and 2.26 M-circle dot, in agreement with masses of known neutron stars. Restricting the component spins to the range inferred in binary neutron stars, we find the component masses to be in the range 1.17-1.60 M-circle dot, with the total mass of the system 2.74(-0.01)(+0.04) M-circle dot. The source was localized within a sky region of 28 deg(2) (90% probability) and had a luminosity distance of 40(-14)(+8) Mpc, the closest and most precisely localized gravitational-wave signal yet. The association with the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A, detected by Fermi-GBM 1.7 s after the coalescence, corroborates the hypothesis of a neutron star merger and provides the first direct evidence of a link between these mergers and short gamma-ray bursts. Subsequent identification of transient counterparts across the electromagnetic spectrum in the same location further supports the interpretation of this event as a neutron star merger. This unprecedented joint gravitational and electromagnetic observation provides insight into astrophysics, dense matter, gravitation, and cosmology.
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