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KILONOVAE

Making sense of nothing

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A model of the optical light detected following the merger of two neutron stars reveals polarization to be a unique probe of the geometry of the kilonova explosion that accompanied the gravitational waves.

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Fig. 1: The polarization of light expected from a kilonova 1.5 days after the neutron-star merger.

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