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GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3

GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3

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GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3

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Full title

GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2017-10, Vol.13 (S338), p.53-60

Language

English

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Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Scope and Contents

Contents

Swift’s rapid slewing, flexible planning, and multi-wavelength instruments make it the most capable space-based follow-up engine for finding poorly localized sources. During O1 and O2 Swift successfully tiled hundreds of square-degrees of sky in the LVC localization regions, searching for, and identifying, possible X-ray and UV/O transients in the...

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Full title

GW170817: Swift UV detection of a blue kilonova, and improving the search in O3

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2171992683

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2171992683

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ISSN

1743-9213

E-ISSN

1743-9221

DOI

10.1017/S1743921318003629

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