Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2017

Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226

J. L. Racusin (1, 2) , E. Burns (3) , A. Goldstein (4) , V. Connaughton (4) , C. A. Wilson-Hodge (5) , P. Jenke (3) , L. Blackburn (6) , M. S. Briggs (7) , J. Broida (8) , J. Camp (9) , N. Christensen (10) , C. M. Hui (5) , T. Littenberg (4) , P. Shawhan (11) , L. Singer (2) , J. Veitch (12) , P. N. Bhat (3) , W. Cleveland (3) , G. Fitzpatrick (13) , M. H. Gibby (14) , A. von Kienlin (15) , S. Mcbreen , B. Mailyan (3) , C. A. Meegan (3) , W. S. Paciesas (4) , R. D. Preece (3) , O.J. Roberts (16) , M. Stanbro (7) , P. Veres (7) , B.-B Zhang (3) , M. Ackermann (16) , A. Albert (17) , William B. Atwood (18) , M. Axelsson (19) , L. Baldini (20) , Jean Ballet (21) , Guido Barbiellini (22) , Matthew G. Baring (23) , D. Bastieri (24) , R. Bellazzini (25) , E. Bissaldi (20) , R. D. Blandford (26) , E. D. Bloom (27) , R. Bonino (28) , J. Bregeon (29) , Pascal Bruel (30) , S. Buson (2) , G. A. Caliandro (26) , R. A. Cameron (26) , R. Caputo (18) , M. Caragiulo (31) , P. A. Caraveo (32) , E. Cavazzuti , E. Charles (26) , J. Chiang (26) , S. Ciprini , F. Costanza (20) , A. Cuoco (28) , S. Cutini , F. d'Ammando (33) , F. de Palma (20) , R. Desiante (28) , S. W. Digel (26) , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro (27) , L. Di Venere (31) , P. S. Drell (26) , C. Favuzzi (31) , E. C. Ferrara (34) , W. B. Focke (26) , Y. Fukazawa (35) , S. Funk (36) , P. Fusco (31) , F. Gargano (20) , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto (25) , R. Gill (37) , M. Giroletti (38) , T. Glanzmann (27) , J. Granot (39) , D. Green (2) , J. E Grove (40) , Lucas Guillemot (34) , S. Guiriec (2) , A. K. Harding (2) , T. Jogler (41) , G. Jóhannesson (42) , T. Kamae (43) , S. Kensei (35) , D. Kocevski (2) , M. Kuss (31) , S. Larsson (19) , L. Latronico (28) , J. Li (44) , F. Longo (25) , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano (45) , J. D. Magill (11) , S. Maldera (28) , D. Malyshev (46) , J. E. Mcenery (2) , P. F. Michelson (26) , T. Mizuno (42) , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli (47) , I. V. Moskalenko (27) , M. Negro (28) , E. Nuss (29) , N. Omodei (27) , M. Orienti (33) , E. Orlando (26) , J. F. Ormes (48) , D. Paneque (49) , J. S. Perkins (2) , M. Pesce-Rollins (31) , Frédéric Piron (29) , G. Pivato (20) , T. A. Porter (26) , G. Principe (46) , S. Rainò (25) , R. Rando (24) , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer (50) , O. Reimer (50) , P. M. Saz Parkinson (18) , J. D. Scargle (51) , C Sgrò (20) , D. Simone (52) , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith (53) , F. Spada (20) , P. Spinelli (31) , D. J. Suson (54) , H. Tajima (55) , J. B. Thayer (27) , D. F. Torres (44) , E. Troja (2) , Y. Uchiyama , G. Vianello (40) , K. S. Wood (40) , M. Wood (21)
1 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2 LHEA - GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
3 UAH - University of Alabama [Huntsville]
4 USRA - Universities Space Research Association [Washington]
5 MSFC - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
6 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 CSPAR - Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research [Huntsville]
8 Carleton College
9 ROB - Royal Observatory of Belgium = Observatoire Royal de Belgique
10 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Northfield]
11 UMD - University of Maryland [College Park]
12 University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
13 UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin]
14 Jacobs Technology ESCG
15 MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
16 DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg]
17 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
18 SCIPP - Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
19 KTH - KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm]
20 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa]
21 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
22 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
23 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Houston]
24 INFN, Sezione di Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
25 INFN, sezione di Bari - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari
26 KIPAC - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
27 Stanford University
28 INFN, Sezione di Torino - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
29 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
30 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
31 Dipartimento di Fisica "M. Merlin" dell'Università e del Politecnico di Bari
32 IASF-MI - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano
33 IRA - Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna]
34 USN - Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay
35 Hiroshima City University
36 SLAC - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
37 Open University of Israël
38 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica [Rome]
39 Department of Natural Sciences [Ra'anana}
40 US NRL - United States Naval Research Laboratory
41 FAU - Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
42 University of Iceland [Reykjavik]
43 Tokyo University of Science
44 ICE-CSIC - Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona]
45 INFN, Sezione di Perugia - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
46 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
47 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata
48 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Denver]
49 MPIK - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
50 Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck] = University of Innsbruck
51 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
52 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique
53 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
54 Purdue University [West Lafayette]
55 Nagoya University
J. Broida
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S. Mcbreen
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A. Albert
E. Cavazzuti
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S. Ciprini
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S. Cutini
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N. Di Lalla
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Y. Fukazawa
D. Gasparrini
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F. Loparco
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M. E. Monzani
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N. Omodei
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M. Razzano
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S. Razzaque
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E. J. Siskind
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H. Tajima
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Y. Uchiyama
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Résumé

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.

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insu-01492674 , version 1 (24-04-2017)

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J. L. Racusin, E. Burns, A. Goldstein, V. Connaughton, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, et al.. Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017, 835 (1), pp.82. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/82⟩. ⟨insu-01492674⟩
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