Gravitational wave source in NGC 4993
stsci_2017-41b October 16th, 2017
Credit: NASA and ESA; N. Tanvir (U. Leicester), A. Levan (U. Warwick), and A. Fruchter and O. Fox (STScI)
On August 17, 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected gravitational waves from a neutron star collision. Within 12 hours, observatories had identified the source of the event within the galaxy NGC 4993, shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image, and located an associated stellar flare called a kilonova. Hubble observed that flare of light fade over the course of 6 days, as shown in these observations taken on August 22, 26, and 28 (insets).
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2017/news-2017-41
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 2017-41b
- Subject Category
- C.6.2.2 C.3.6.1 C.3.1.9
- Subject Name
- GRB170817A in NGC 4993, NGC 4993
- Credits
- NASA and ESA; N. Tanvir (U. Leicester), A. Levan (U. Warwick), and A. Fruchter and O. Fox (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2017-10-16T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 130,000,000
- Redshift
- 130,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2017/news-2017-41
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance to NGC 4993
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- ACS/WFC, WFC3/IR, WFC3/IR
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- V, YJ, H
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 1100, 1600
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 197.44874470000, -23.38283370000
- Reference Dimension
- 1365.00, 1458.00
- Reference Pixel
- 656.90300475612, 786.07532451595
- Scale
- -0.00001941642, 0.00001941642
- Rotation
- 22.27968455470
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PintpointWCS 0.9.0 revision 213+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p1741b-f-1365x1458.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p1741b-f-1365x1458.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-10-12T10:39:41-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
