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GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

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Establishes the 17 August 2017 binary neutron-star merger and the associated kilonova AT2017gfo in NGC 4993 at roughly 40 Mpc as a site of r-process nucleosynthesis. Volume and page numbers are deliberately not asserted because they were not confirmed. Ejecta mass estimates of 0.03-0.06 solar masses come from modelling papers summarised via search, not from this paper.

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