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SEARCHING the GAMMA-RAY SKY for COUNTERPARTS to GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES: FERMI GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITO R and LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS of LVT151012 and GW151226

  • Fermi Lat Collaboration
  • , J. L. Racusin
  • , E. Burns
  • , A. Goldstein
  • , V. Connaughton
  • , C. A. Wilson-Hodge
  • , P. Jenke
  • , L. Blackburn
  • , M. S. Briggs
  • , J. Broida
  • , J. Camp
  • , N. Christensen
  • , C. M. Hui
  • , T. Littenberg
  • , P. Shawhan
  • , L. Singer
  • , J. Veitch
  • , P. N. Bhat
  • , W. Cleveland
  • , G. Fitzpatrick
  • M. H. Gibby, A. Von Kienlin, S. McBreen, B. Mailyan, C. A. Meegan, W. S. Paciesas, R. D. Preece, O. J. Roberts, M. Stanbro, P. Veres, B. B. Zhang, M. Ackermann, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, M. G. Baring, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, E. Charles, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, F. De Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, E. C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, R. Gill, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, J. Granot, D. Green, J. E. Grove, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, T. Jogler, G. Jóhannesson, T. Kamae, S. Kensei, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, P. M.Saz Parkinson, J. D. Scargle, C. Sgrò, D. Simone, E. J. Siskind, D. A. Smith, F. Spada, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, J. B. Thayer, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, Y. Uchiyama, G. Vianello, K. S. Wood, M. Wood
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Universities Space Research Association
  • NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Department of Space Science
  • Carleton College
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Birmingham
  • University College Dublin
  • Jacobs Engineering
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • University of Pisa
  • CEA-IRFU/CNRS/Université Paris Diderot
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Trieste
  • Rice University
  • University of Padua
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • University of Turin
  • Université Montpellier 2
  • Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
  • Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (CIFS)
  • Polytechnic University of Bari
  • Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna
  • Italian Space Agency
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • National Institute for Astrophysics
  • University of Bologna
  • Pegaso Telematic University
  • University of Udine
  • Hiroshima University
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Open University of Israel
  • Naval Research Laboratory
  • Université d'Orléans
  • CNRS
  • University of Iceland
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • CSIC
  • University of Denver
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • University of Innsbruck
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • NASA Ames Research Center
  • NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc.
  • Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires Bordeaux-Gradingnan (CENBG)
  • Purdue University Northwest
  • Nagoya University
  • ICREA
  • Rikkyo University
  • Praxis, Inc.

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number82
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume835
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • gamma rays: general
  • gravitational waves
  • methods: observational

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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