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On August 17, 2017 at 12∶41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The source was localized within a sky region of 28 deg2 (90% probability) and had a luminosity distance of 40 Mpc, the closest and most precisely localised gravitational-wave signal yet. The association with the γ-ray burst GRB 170817A, detected by the two satellites Fermi-GBM and INTEGRAL 1.7 s after the coalescence, corroborates the hypothesis of a neutron star merger and provides the first direct evidence of a link between these mergers and short γ-ray bursts.