On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Virgo made the first detection of gravitational waves associated with a merging neutron star binary. Our team jumped into action and detected, for the first time, an electromagnetic counterpart: a kilonova.
Our full research efforts are presented on kilonova.org. You can also watch video interviews of our team below:
Edo Berger:
Phil Cowperthwaite:
Kate Alexander:
Matt Nicholl: