Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration; Alberto Vecchio; Conor Mow-Lowry; Riccardo Buscicchio; Patricia Schmidt; Kazuhiro Agatsuma; Leonid Prokhorov; Denis Martynov; Chris Moore; Amit Ubhi; Teng Zhang; David Stops; Haixing Miao; Geraint Pratten

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abee15

Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a

LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration, Alberto Vecchio, Conor Mow-Lowry, Riccardo Buscicchio, Patricia Schmidt, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Leonid Prokhorov, Denis Martynov, Chris Moore, Amit Ubhi, Teng Zhang, David Stops, Haixing Miao, Geraint Pratten

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	86
Number of pages	16
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal
Volume	915
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee15
Publication status	Published - 9 Jul 2021

Keywords

Gravitational waves
Gravitational wave astronomy
LIGO
Gamma-ray bursts
Compact binary stars
Neutron stars
Black holes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Abbott, R., Abbott, T.D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adhikari, R.X., Adya, V.B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M. and Agatsuma, K., 2020. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3a. The Astrophysical Journal, 915(2), p.86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee15
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LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration, Vecchio, A., Mow-Lowry, C., Buscicchio, R., Schmidt, P., Agatsuma, K., Prokhorov, L., Martynov, D., Moore, C., Ubhi, A., Zhang, T., Stops, D., Miao, H., & Pratten, G. (2021). Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a. The Astrophysical Journal, 915(2), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee15

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Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo run O3a

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