{"paper":{"title":"Illuminating Gravitational Waves: A Concordant Picture of Photons from a Neutron Star Merger","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.GA","astro-ph.SR","gr-qc"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. A. Miller, A.Balasubramanian, A. Corsi, A. Goobar, A. Horesh, A. R. Williamson, A. Van Sistine, A. Y. Q. Ho, B. E. Cobb, C. Cannella, C.-C. Ngeow, C. Copperwheat, C. Fremling, C. Frohmaier, C. Lynch, C. Zhang, D. A. Frail, D. A. Perley, D. Bhattacharya, D. Chatterjee, D. Dobie, D. Kasen, D. L. Kaplan, D. Nichols, D. O. Cook, E. Bellm, E. M. Sadler, E. Nakar, E. O. Ofek, F. Harrison, F. Rusu, G. C. Anupama, G. Hallinan, G. Helou, H. Kim, H. Qi, I. Steele, J. Bally, J. Barnes, J. E. Jencson, J. R. Allison, J. S. Bloom, J. Sollerman, K. De, K. Hotokezaka, K. Madsen, K. Mooley, K. W Bannister, L. P. Singer, L. Yan, M. M. Kasliwal, N. Blagorodnova, N.P.M. Kuin, O. D. Fox, O. Gottlieb, P. A. Evans, P. A. Mazzali, P.-C. Yu, P. Nugent, P. R. Brady, P. Schmidt, R. Itoh, R. M. Lau, R. M. Quimby, S. Barway, S. B. Cenko, S. Ghosh, S.M. Adams, S. Nissanke, S. Rosswog, S. W. K. Emery, T. Hinderer, T. Kupfer, T. Murphy, T. Piran, U. Feindt, V. Bhalerao, W.-H. Ip, W. Zhao, Y. Xu, Y. Yatsu","submitted_at":"2017-10-16T16:57:43Z","abstract_excerpt":"Merging neutron stars offer an exquisite laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an electromagnetic counterpart EM170817 to gravitational waves (GW170817) detected from merging neutron stars. By synthesizing a panchromatic dataset, we demonstrate that merging neutron stars are a long-sought production site forging heavy elements by r-process nucleosynthesis. The weak gamma-rays seen in EM170817 are dissimilar to classical short gamma-ray bursts with ultra-relativistic jets. Instead, we suggest that"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1710.05436","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}