The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera

M. Soares-Santos(University of Michigan), A. C. C. Lourenço(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), J. García-Bellido(California University of Pennsylvania), D. Scolnic(Duke University), S. Allam(University of Wyoming), P. S. Cowperthwaite(Carnegie Institution for Science), Wen‐fai Fong(Northwestern University), B. Yanny(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), J. Annis(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), R. Keßler(University of Chicago), J. Frieman, Chris L. Fryer(Los Alamos National Laboratory), Jeffrey L. Carlin(Earlham College), K. D. Alexander(University of Arizona), H.-Y. Chen(University of Chicago), D. Brown, Tarraneh Eftekhari(Northwestern University), Christopher J. Conselice(University of Nottingham), 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), M. Šako(University of Pennsylvania), W G Hartley(University College London), E. Berger(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), R. Chornock(Geophysical Laboratory), Eric H. Neilsen(Apache (Canada)), F. Paz-Chinchón(National Center for Supercomputing Applications), R. A. Gruendl(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), N. Kuropatkin(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Z. Doctor(University of Chicago), T. S. Li(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), A. Drlica-Wagner(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), P. A. A. Lopes(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), 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), D. A. Finley(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), D. L. Tucker(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), B. Farr, H. Lin(China Jiliang University), F. Durret(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), R. J. Foley(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), C. Hanna(Pennsylvania State University), Erika Cook(Texas A&M University)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
October 16, 2017
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