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08-02-2018
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Today's Colloquium - Multi-Messenger EM-GW Astronomy: The View from the Radio End of the EM Spectrum

Submitter: Dale Frail
Description: With the discovery of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation from the binary neutron star merger GW170817, the era of GW multi-messenger astronomy has begun with style. I will describe the discovery, show where progress has been made in several areas, and then move to describe a controversy regarding the origin of the afterglow emission.

After explaining the importance of this issue, I will show how late-time radio observations helped. I end with a discussion of the future, with an emphasis on the role of radio observations in finding and studying EM counterparts.
Copyright: NRAO/AUI/NSF: D. Berry
 
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