Kavli Affiliate: Nathan P. Lourie | First 5 Authors: Danielle Frostig, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, Tito Dal Canton | Summary: The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole mergers. WINTER […]
Continue.. An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers