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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521gWe report the first plausible optical electromagnetic counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the electromagnetic flare is consistent with expectations for a kicked binary black hole merger in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus [B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, I. Bartoset al., Astrophys. J. Lett.884, L50 (2019)] and is unlikely [
Document ID
20210014175
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
M. J. Graham ORCID(California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
K. E. S. Ford (City University of New York New York, New York, United States)
B. McKernan (City College of New York New York, New York, United States)
N. P. Ross (University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
D. Stern (Jet Propulsion Lab La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States)
K. Burdge (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
M. Coughlin (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
S. G. Djorgovsk (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
A. J. Drake (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
D. Duev (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
M. Kasliwal (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
A. A. Mahabal (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
S. van Velzen (University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland, United States)
J. Belecki (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
E. C. Bellm (University of Washington Seattle, Washington, United States)
R. Burruss (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
S. B. Cenko (Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, United States)
V. Cunningham (University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland, United States)
G. Helou (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
S. R. Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
F. J. Masci (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
T. Prince (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
D. Reiley (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
H. Rodriguez (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
B. Rusholme (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
R. M. Smith (California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California, United States)
M. T. Soumagnac (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, United States)
Date Acquired
April 21, 2021
Publication Date
June 25, 2020
Publication Information
Publication: Physical Review Letters
Publisher: American Physical Society
Volume: 124
Issue: 25
Issue Publication Date: June 26, 2020
ISSN: 0031-9007
e-ISSN: 1079-7114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.251102
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
WBS: 789737
CONTRACT_GRANT: AST-1518308
CONTRACT_GRANT: AST-1815034
CONTRACT_GRANT: 16-ADAP16-0232
CONTRACT_GRANT: 80NM0018D0004P00002
CONTRACT_GRANT: AST-1831415
CONTRACT_GRANT: Simons Foundation 533845
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF 1545949
CONTRACT_GRANT: PHY2010970
CONTRACT_GRANT: AST-1440341
CONTRACT_GRANT: Heising–Simons Foundation 12540303
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