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Making Sense of Nothing

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-10-26 v1
Authors: Douglas C. Leonard
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Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.2110.12074,
  title  = {Making Sense of Nothing},
  author = {Douglas C. Leonard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12074},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

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

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