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Abstract
One of the most significant milestones in the history of natural science is the 21st-century discovery and localization of gravitational waves. This achievement was not merely the result of a technical revolution—the development of new gravitational-wave detectors with sensitivity two to three orders of magnitude greater than their 20th-century predecessors—but also the culmination of theoretical predictions regarding the frequency and power of such events, made 40 years before their actual detection by instruments like LIGO. This presentation outlines the theoretical framework, based on an astrophysical understanding of processes occurring within a radius of approximately 150 million light-years—a project known as the "Scenario Machine." Through this initiative, a model of relativistic stars within this volume was constructed, predicting that neutron star mergers would occur at a rate of three per year. This prediction proved remarkably accurate, aligning within 15% in terms of distance with the neutron star merger event observed on August 17, 2017. To facilitate the localization of such phenomena, the speaker initiated an experimental project in 2002: the MASTER Global Robotic Telescope Network. Fifteen years later, this network became one of only six facilities worldwide to independently localize the 2017 gravitational-wave event—which remains the only such event to have been both detected and localized to date. Specifically, our team independently identified an optical transient in the galaxy NGC 4993 and analyzed its physical parameters, even obtaining spectra of the ejected stellar envelope. It was revealed that the entire periodic table of heavy elements was synthesized with great rapidity, driven by Urca processes. This research is ongoing.
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