J/ApJ/915/86 Swift & Fermi GRBs with LIGO-Virgo run O3a data (Abbott+, 2021)
Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by
Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a.
Abbott R., Abbott T.D., Abraham S. et al.
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration.
<Astrophys. J., 915, 86 (2021)>
=2021ApJ...915...86A 2021ApJ...915...86A
ADC_Keywords: Gravitational wave; GRB; Black holes; Stars, neutron
Keywords: Gravitational waves ; Gravitational wave astronomy ; LIGO ;
Gamma-ray bursts ; Compact binary stars ; Neutron stars ;
Black holes
Abstract:
We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray
bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the
first part of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced
Virgo (2019 April 1 15:00 UTC-2019 October 1 15:00 UTC). A total of
105 GRBs were analyzed using a search for generic gravitational-wave
transients; 32 GRBs were analyzed with a search that specifically
targets neutron star binary mergers as short GRB progenitors. We find
no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with
the GRBs that we followed up, nor for a population of unidentified
subthreshold signals. We consider several source types and signal
morphologies, and report for these lower bounds on the distance to
each GRB.
Description:
The Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) notices provide a set of
141 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) during the third observing run of Advanced
LIGO and Advanced Virgo (O3a) data-taking period
(2019 April 1 15:00 UTC - 2019 October 1 15:00 UTC).
The two targeted search methods used in this paper are the same
methods applied to GW data coincident with GRBs that occurred during
the first (Abbott+ 2017ApJ...841...89A 2017ApJ...841...89A) and second
(Abbott+ 2017ApJ...848L..13A 2017ApJ...848L..13A & 2019, J/ApJ/886/75) Advanced LIGO and
Virgo observing runs.
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 84 111 Information and limits on associated GW emission
for each of the Fermi and Swift GRBs followed up
during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a
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See also:
V/147 : The SDSS Photometric Catalogue, Release 12 (Alam+, 2015)
VII/281 : GLADE v2.3 catalog (Dalya+, 2018)
J/ApJ/760/12 : LIGO/Virgo GW bursts with GRBs (Abadie+, 2012)
J/ApJS/211/13 : The second Fermi/GBM GRB catalog (4yr) (von Kienlin+, 2014)
J/A+A/588/A135 : Fermi/GBM GRB time-resolved spectral catalog (Yu+, 2016)
J/ApJ/829/7 : 3rd Swift/BAT GRB catalog (past ∼11yrs) (BAT3) (Lien+, 2016)
J/ApJS/229/31 : IPN supplement to the 2nd Fermi GBM catalog (Hurley+, 2017)
J/ApJ/886/20 : Bayesian time-resolved spectra of Fermi GBM pulses (Yu+, 2019)
J/ApJ/886/75 : Search for GW signals associated with GRBs (Abbott+, 2019)
J/ApJS/245/15 : Swift XRT follow-up of LIGO/Virgo GW triggers (Klingler+, 2019)
J/ApJ/893/46 : The fourth Fermi-GBM GRB catalog: 10 years (von Kienlin+, 2020)
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3_archive.html : GCN circulars archive
http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/batgrbcat/ : BAT GRB online catalog
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html : Fermi GBM burst
online catalog
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 A9 --- GRB GRB name (YYMMDDA or YYMMDDddd)
11- 18 A8 "h:m:s" Time UTC time
20- 21 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
23- 24 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
26- 27 I2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
29 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (J2000)
30- 31 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
33- 34 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
36- 40 A5 --- Tel The instrument the sky localization of which
was used for GW analysis purposes ("Fermi" or
"Swift")
42- 50 A9 --- Type GRB type (79 "Long", 20 "Short" and
12 "Ambiguous")
52- 63 A12 --- Network The GW detector network used in the analysis
of each GRB (1)
65 A1 --- f_Network Flag on Network (2)
67- 69 I3 Mpc Dbns [19/242]? BNS distance, D90 (3)
71- 73 I3 Mpc Dnsbh1 [22/331]? Generic NSBH distance, D90 (3)
75- 77 I3 Mpc Dnsbh2 [34/478]? Aligned NSBH distance, D90 (3)
79- 80 I2 Mpc Dadi [1/73]? AID-A distance, D90 (3)
82- 84 I3 Mpc Dcsg [5/234]? CSG 150Hz distance, D90 (3)
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Note (1): Detectors as follows:
H1 = LIGO Hanford,
L1 = LIGO Livingston,
V1 = Virgo.
For cases in which the generic transient search (Section 3.2) and the
neutron star binary search (Section 3.1) used a different network, we
report the network used by the latter in parentheses.
Note (2): Flag as follows:
d = cases in which T90>60s, so the on-source window of the generic
transient search was extended to cover the GRB duration.
Note (3): The 90% confidence exclusion distances to the GRB (D90) for
several emission scenarios: binary neutron star (BNS), generic and
aligned-spin neutron star-black hole (NSBH), accretion disk
instability model A (ADI-A; van Putten 2001PhRvL..87i1101V 2001PhRvL..87i1101V & van
Putten+ 2014MNRAS.444L..58V 2014MNRAS.444L..58V), and circular sine-Gaussian (CSG;
Abbott+ 2017ApJ...841...89A 2017ApJ...841...89A) GW burst at 150Hz with total radiated
energy EGW=10-2M☉c2. The first three are determined with
the neutron star binary search, while the last two are calculated with
the generic transient search.
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