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Caption: Figure 1.
Top: kilonova spectra from Barnes & Kasen (2013) at ∼1 day and ∼1 week with ejecta properties of Mej = 10−2 M⊙ and βej = 0.2. Bottom: light curve for the same model parameters computed at a fiducial distance of 200 Mpc in the DECam r-, i-, and z-band filters.
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