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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g
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Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the electromagnetic flare is consistent with exp... more
Source: Physical Review Letters
Authors M. J. Graham, K. E. Saavik Ford, Barry McKernan, Nicholas P. Ross, Daniel Stern +22 more
Institutions California Institute of Technology, American Museum of Natural History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory +11 more
Cites: 80
Cited by: 300
Related to: 10
FWCI: 23.67
Citation percentile (by year/subfield): 99.99
Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation +15 more
Grant IDS AST-1831415, 1545949, PHY-2010970, AST-1440341, AST-1518308 +15 more