Massimo Capaccioli

TL;DR: The spectral identification and physical properties of a bright kilonova associated with the gravitational-wave source GW170817 and γ-ray burst GRB 170817A associated with a galaxy at a distance of 40 megaparsecs from Earth are described.

TL;DR: In this article, the best fit to the light profiles of a luminosity-limited sample of elliptical and S0 galaxies with a power law r 1/n, letting the exponent remain free rather than keeping it fixed at 1 /n=1/4 as in the well-known de Vaucouleurs formula, was obtained.

TL;DR: In this paper, the kinematics of the outer parts of three intermediate-luminosity elliptical galaxies were studied with the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph, and the galaxies' velocity-dispersion profiles were found to decline with the radius, and dynamical modeling of the data indicates the presence of little if any dark matter in these galaxies' halos.

TL;DR: In this article, the sky localization of the first observed compact binary merger is presented, where the authors describe the low-latency analysis of the LIGO data and present a sky localization map.

TL;DR: The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) as discussed by the authors is an optical wide-field imaging survey carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope and the OmegaCAM camera.