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SACKLER CONFERENCE 2018

The dawn of gravitational-wave astrophysics

The biennial Harvard Sackler conference this year focused on gravitational-wave astrophysics, with a comprehensive programme that reviewed recent discoveries and discussed prospects for a bright future.

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Fig. 1: Artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars.

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Barsotti, L. The dawn of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Nat Astron 2, 619–620 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0536-7

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