Light and GW Emission from the First Detected BNS Merger

Discussion on GW170817 at the Compact Objects Group Meeting, CCA Flatiron Institute

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1. Light and GW Emission from the First Detected BNS Merger Artist depict of a massive binary system (NASA). Overlaid: MESA evolutionary tracks LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), PRL 2017 LVC+FERMI+… ApJL 2017 (MultiMessengerPaper)
2. Artist depict of a massive binary system (NASA). Overlaid: MESA evolutionary tracks LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), PRL 2017 Instrumental glitch in the Livingston detector data. Similar glitches are registered roughly once every few hours in each of the LIGO detectors with no temporal correlation between the LIGO sites. Their cause remains unknown.
3. Artist depict of a massive binary system (NASA). Overlaid: MESA evolutionary tracks LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), PRL 2017 Frequency evolution Chirp mass Strain Amplitude
4. Announcement on 16 October 2017. Madness! Artist depict of a massive binary system (NASA). Overlaid: MESA evolutionary tracks 1 PRL, 7 Nature papers, 9 Science, 40 ApJ/ApJL, 5 MNRAS and many more
5. http://www.kilonovae.org (Drout, Valenti & Arcavi) How To Navigate the (first) Swell?
6. GW170817, EM170817 Artist depict of a massive binary system (NASA). Overlaid: MESA evolutionary tracks LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), PRL 2017 LVC+FERMI+… ApJL 2017 (MultiMessengerPaper)
7. Multimessenger Timeline GW170817 EM170817 LVC+FERMI+… ApJL 2017 (MultiMessengerPaper)
8. Kilonova Emission: a success for theory Metzger (arxiv) 2017, Cowperthwaite+2017, Metzger+2010
9. Kilonova Emission: historical digression
10. Kilonova Emission: historical digression
11. Opacity Kasen et al, 2013 f-shell orbitals
12. Opacity Kasen et al, 2013
13. Opacity Kasen et al, 2013
14. Light Curve Evolution Kasen et al, Nature 2017
15. r-process signature Kasen et al, Nature 2017
16. Kasen et al, Nature 2017 Neodymium We don’t really see Gold. We mostly see Neodymium
17. Kilonova Spectra! Chornok et al, ApJL 2017
18. Mixed Components Model Kasen et al, Nature 2017 Chornok et al, ApJL 2017
19. Jets, Cocoons and Open Questions Kasliwal et al, Science 2017 Metzger 2017 (arXiv)