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GW170817 Neutron-Star Merger Detection

Name: GW170817 Neutron-Star Merger Detection – United States of America factsheet records
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Barry Barish17 August 2017

United States of America · Science / Astrophysics

LIGO and Virgo detect gravitational waves from the binary neutron-star merger GW170817.

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Barry Barish

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