The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

P. S. Cowperthwaite(Carnegie Institution for Science), P. A. A. Lopes(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), T. S. Li(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Erika Cook(Texas A&M University), J. García-Bellido(California University of Pennsylvania), D. Scolnic(Duke University), S. Allam(University of Wyoming), F. Durret(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Wen‐fai Fong(Northwestern University), T. Matheson(Kitt Peak National Observatory), J. Annis(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Nathan Smith(Baylor College of Medicine), R. Keßler(University of Chicago), J. Frieman, Chris L. Fryer(Los Alamos National Laboratory), A. Rest(Space Telescope Science Institute), Jeffrey L. Carlin(Earlham College), K. D. Alexander(University of Arizona), H.-Y. Chen(University of Chicago), Brian D. Metzger(Columbia University), D. Brown, Tarraneh Eftekhari(Northwestern University), V. Ashley Villar(Pennsylvania State University), Robert E. Butler(Indiana University Bloomington), Daniel Kasen(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), P. K. Blanchard(Northwestern University), A. Palmese(Carnegie Mellon University), Dillon Brout(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), E. Berger(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), M. Soares-Santos(University of Michigan), R. Chornock(Geophysical Laboratory), Eric H. Neilsen(Apache (Canada)), Z. Doctor(University of Chicago), James Guillochon(University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Herner(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), D. E. Holz(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), M. S. S. Gill(Baba Farid University of Health Sciences), J. Marriner(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), H. T. Diehl(Cardiff University), E. Balbinot(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), M. R. Drout(University of Toronto), M. Nicholl(Queen's University Belfast), D. A. Finley(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), D. L. Tucker(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), R. Margutti(Harvard University Press), B. Farr, Paul Williams(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), Eliot Quataert(Princeton University), M. Sako(University of Pennsylvania), R. J. Foley(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
October 16, 2017
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