Making Sense of Nothing [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12074


A model of the optical light detected following the merger of two neutron stars reveals polarization to be a unique probe of the geometry of the kilonova explosion that accompanied the gravitational waves.

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D. Leonard
Tue, 26 Oct 21
60/109

Comments: Nature Astronomy News & Views article; accompanied Bulla et al. (2019, Nat. Astron., 3, 99-106)