The Optical and Near-Infrared Counterpart of GW170817 (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

The Optical and Near-Infrared Counterpart of GW170817

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Three-color false-color composite images showing the time evolution of the optical and near-infrared counterpart of GW170817 made using data from the Subaru Telescope (z-band, blue) and IRSF (H-band, green; K-band, red)

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NAOJ/Nagoya University

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