2017ApJ...835...82R

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2017ApJ...835...82R - Astrophys. J., 835, 82-82 (2017/January-3)

Searching the gamma-ray sky for counterparts to gravitational wave sources: /Fermi GBM and LAT observations of LVT151012 and GW151226.

RACUSIN J.L., BURNS E., GOLDSTEIN A., CONNAUGHTON V., WILSON-HODGE C.A., JENKE P., BLACKBURN L., BRIGGS M.S., BROIDA J., CAMP J., CHRISTENSEN N., HUI C.M., LITTENBERG T., SHAWHAN P., SINGER L., VEITCH J., BHAT P.N., CLEVELAND W., FITZPATRICK G., GIBBY M.H., VON KIENLIN A., McBREEN S., MAILYAN B., MEEGAN C.A., PACIESAS W.S., PREECE R.D., ROBERTS O.J., STANBRO M., VERES P., ZHANG B.-B., ACKERMANN M., ALBERT A., ATWOOD W.B., AXELSSON M., BALDINI L., BALLET J., BARBIELLINI G., BARING M.G., BASTIERI D., BELLAZZINI R., BISSALDI E., BLANDFORD R.D., BLOOM E.D., BONINO R., BREGEON J., BRUEL P., BUSON S., CALIANDRO G.A., CAMERON R.A., CAPUTO R., CARAGIULO M., CARAVEO P.A., CAVAZZUTI E., CHARLES E., CHIANG J., CIPRINI S., COSTANZA F., CUOCO A., CUTINI S., D'AMMANDO F., DE PALMA F., DESIANTE R., DIGEL S.W., DI LALLA N., DI MAURO M., DI VENERE L., DRELL P.S., FAVUZZI C., FERRARA E.C., FOCKE W.B., FUKAZAWA Y., FUNK S., FUSCO P., GARGANO F., GASPARRINI D., GIGLIETTO N., GILL R., GIROLETTI M., GLANZMAN T., GRANOT J., GREEN D., GROVE J.E., GUILLEMOT L., GUIRIEC S., HARDING A.K., JOGLER T., JOHANNESSON G., KAMAE T., KENSEI S., KOCEVSKI D., KUSS M., LARSSON S., LATRONICO L., LI J., LONGO F., LOPARCO F., LUBRANO P., MAGILL J.D., MALDERA S., MALYSHEV D., MAZZIOTTA M.N., McENERY J.E., MICHELSON P.F., MIZUNO T., MONZANI M.E., MORSELLI A., MOSKALENKO I.V., NEGRO M., NUSS E., OMODEI N., ORIENTI M., ORLANDO E., ORMES J.F., PANEQUE D., PERKINS J.S., PESCE-ROLLINS M., PIRON F., PIVATO G., PORTER T.A., PRINCIPE G., RAINO S., RANDO R., RAZZANO M., RAZZAQUE S., REIMER A., REIMER O., SAZ PARKINSON P.M., SCARGLE J.D., SGRO C., SIMONE D., SISKIND E.J., SMITH D.A., SPADA F., SPINELLI P., SUSON D.J., TAJIMA H., THAYER J.B., TORRES D.F., TROJA E., UCHIYAMA Y., VIANELLO G., WOOD K.S., WOOD M. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012. At the time of the LIGO triggers on LVT151012 and GW151226, GBM was observing 68% and 83% of the localization regions, and LAT was observing 47% and 32%, respectively. No candidate electromagnetic counterparts were detected by either the GBM or LAT. We present a detailed analysis of the GBM and LAT data over a range of timescales from seconds to years, using automated pipelines and new techniques for characterizing the flux upper bounds across large areas of the sky. Due to the partial GBM and LAT coverage of the large LIGO localization regions at the trigger times for both events, differences in source distances and masses, as well as the uncertain degree to which emission from these sources could be beamed, these non-detections cannot be used to constrain the variety of theoretical models recently applied to explain the candidate GBM counterpart to GW150914.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): gamma rays: general - gravitational waves - methods: observational - methods: observational

Simbad objects: 6

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Number of rows : 6
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 [CBG2016] GW150914-GBM gam 05 00 -73.           ~ 23 0
2 QSO B1424-41 Bla 14 27 56.29756617 -42 06 19.4376238   18.48 17.7 16.30   ~ 547 1
3 Fermi bn090510016 G 22 14 12.6230 -26 34 58.550           ~ 548 0
4 GrW 150914 GWE ~ ~           ~ 674 1
5 GrW 151226 GWE ~ ~           ~ 275 1
6 GrW 151012 grv ~ ~           ~ 162 1

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