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BNS Merger observers timelapse

This ‘timelapse’ video created by “GROWTH’, shows the locations and times of observations of all the observatories around the world that looked at the EM counterpart of GW170817 following its detection on Aug 17, 2017. Credit: Pavan Hebbar, Varun Bhalerao (IIT-B), David Kaplan (UW Milwaukee), Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) and the GROWTH collaboration.

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August 17, 2018
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BNS-observers
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Pavan Hebbar, Varun Bhalerao (IIT-B), David Kaplan (UW Milwaukee), Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) and the GROWTH collaboration.
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