A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs

Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor; Virgo Collaboration; The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e

A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs

Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, Virgo Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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We present results from offline searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data for gamma-ray transients coincident with the compact binary coalescences observed by the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. In particular, we perform follow-up for both confirmed events and low significance candidates reported in the LIGO/Virgo catalog GWTC-1. We search for temporal coincidences between these GW signals and GBM-triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We also use the GBM Untargeted and Targeted subthreshold searches to find coincident gamma-rays below the onboard triggering threshold. This work implements a refined statistical approach by incorporating GW astrophysical source probabilities and GBM visibilities of LIGO/Virgo sky localizations to search for cumulative signatures of coincident subthreshold gamma-rays. All search methods recover the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A occurring ∼1.7 s after the binary neutron-star merger GW170817. We also present results from a new search seeking GBM counterparts to LIGO single-interferometer triggers. This search finds a candidate joint event, but given the nature of the GBM signal and localization, as well as the high joint false alarm rate of 1.1 10^-6 Hz, we do not consider it an astrophysical association. We find no additional coincidences.

Original language	English
Article number	100
Number of pages	14
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal
Volume	893
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7d3e
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2020

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abstract = "We present results from offline searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data for gamma-ray transients coincident with the compact binary coalescences observed by the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. In particular, we perform follow-up for both confirmed events and low significance candidates reported in the LIGO/Virgo catalog GWTC-1. We search for temporal coincidences between these GW signals and GBM-triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We also use the GBM Untargeted and Targeted subthreshold searches to find coincident gamma-rays below the onboard triggering threshold. This work implements a refined statistical approach by incorporating GW astrophysical source probabilities and GBM visibilities of LIGO/Virgo sky localizations to search for cumulative signatures of coincident subthreshold gamma-rays. All search methods recover the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A occurring ∼1.7 s after the binary neutron-star merger GW170817. We also present results from a new search seeking GBM counterparts to LIGO single-interferometer triggers. This search finds a candidate joint event, but given the nature of the GBM signal and localization, as well as the high joint false alarm rate of 1.1 10-6 Hz, we do not consider it an astrophysical association. We find no additional coincidences.",

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AU - Fletcher, C.

AU - Burns, E.

AU - Goldstein, A.

AU - Bissaldi, E.

AU - Briggs, M. S.

AU - Cleveland, W. H.

AU - Giles, M. M.

AU - Hui, C. M.

AU - Kocevski, D.

AU - Lesage, S.

AU - Mailyan, B.

AU - Malacaria, C.

AU - Poolakkil, S.

AU - Preece, R.

AU - Roberts, O. J.

AU - Veres, P.

AU - Von Kienlin, A.

AU - Wilson-Hodge, C. A.

AU - Wood, J.

AU - Abbott, R.

AU - Abbott, T. D.

AU - Abraham, S.

AU - Acernese, F.

AU - Ackley, K.

AU - Adams, C.

AU - Adhikari, R. X.

AU - Adya, V. B.

AU - Affeldt, C.

AU - Agathos, M.

AU - Agatsuma, K.

AU - Aggarwal, N.

AU - Aguiar, O. D.

AU - Aich, A.

AU - Aiello, L.

AU - Ain, A.

AU - Ajith, P.

AU - Allen, G.

AU - Allocca, A.

AU - Altin, P. A.

AU - Amato, A.

AU - Anand, S.

AU - Ananyeva, A.

AU - Anderson, S. B.

AU - Anderson, W. G.

AU - Angelova, S. V.

AU - Ansoldi, S.

AU - Antier, S.

AU - Appert, S.

AU - Arai, K.

AU - Araya, M. C.

AU - Areeda, J. S.

AU - Arene, M.

AU - Arnaud, N.

AU - Aronson, S. M.

AU - Ascenzi, S.

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AU - Aubin, F.

AU - Aufmuth, P.

AU - Aultoneal, K.

AU - Austin, C.

AU - Avendano, V.

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AU - Bae, S.

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AU - Baird, J.

AU - Baldaccini, F.

AU - Ballardin, G.

AU - Ballmer, S. W.

AU - Bals, A.

AU - Balsamo, A.

AU - Baltus, G.

AU - Banagiri, S.

AU - Bankar, D.

AU - Bankar, R. S.

AU - Barayoga, J. C.

AU - Barbieri, C.

AU - Barish, B. C.

AU - Barker, D.

AU - Barkett, K.

AU - Barneo, P.

AU - Barone, F.

AU - Barr, B.

AU - Barsotti, L.

AU - Barsuglia, M.

AU - Barta, D.

AU - Bartlett, J.

AU - Bartos, I.

AU - Bassiri, R.

AU - Basti, A.

AU - Bawaj, M.

AU - Bayley, J. C.

AU - Bazzan, M.

AU - Bécsy, B.

AU - Bejger, M.

AU - Belahcene, I.

AU - Bell, A. S.

AU - Beniwal, D.

AU - Benjamin, M. G.

AU - Bentley, J. D.

AU - Bergamin, F.

AU - Berger, B. K.

AU - Bergmann, G.

AU - Bernuzzi, S.

AU - Berry, C. P.L.

AU - Bersanetti, D.

AU - Bertolini, A.

AU - Betzwieser, J.

AU - Bhandare, R.

AU - Bhandari, A. V.

AU - Bidler, J.

AU - Biggs, E.

AU - Bilenko, I. A.

AU - Billingsley, G.

AU - Birney, R.

AU - Birnholtz, O.

AU - Biscans, S.

AU - Bischi, M.

AU - Biscoveanu, S.

AU - Bisht, A.

AU - Bissenbayeva, G.

AU - Bitossi, M.

AU - Bizouard, M. A.

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AU - Blair, C. D.

AU - Blair, D. G.

AU - Blair, R. M.

AU - Bobba, F.

AU - Bode, N.

AU - Boer, M.

AU - Boetzel, Y.

AU - Bogaert, G.

AU - Bondu, F.

AU - Bonilla, E.

AU - Bonnand, R.

AU - Booker, P.

AU - Boom, B. A.

AU - Bork, R.

AU - Boschi, V.

AU - Bose, S.

AU - Bossilkov, V.

AU - Bosveld, J.

AU - Bouffanais, Y.

AU - Bozzi, A.

AU - Bradaschia, C.

AU - Brady, P. R.

AU - Bramley, A.

AU - Branchesi, M.

AU - Brau, J. E.

AU - Breschi, M.

AU - Briant, T.

AU - Briggs, J. H.

AU - Brighenti, F.

AU - Brillet, A.

AU - Brinkmann, M.

AU - Brockill, P.

AU - Brooks, A. F.

AU - Brooks, J.

AU - Brown, D. D.

AU - Brunett, S.

AU - Bruno, G.

AU - Bruntz, R.

AU - Buikema, A.

AU - Bulik, T.

AU - Bulten, H. J.

AU - Buonanno, A.

AU - Buskulic, D.

AU - Byer, R. L.

AU - Cabero, M.

AU - Cadonati, L.

AU - Cagnoli, G.

AU - Cahillane, C.

AU - Calderón Bustillo, J.

AU - Callaghan, J. D.

AU - Callister, T. A.

AU - Calloni, E.

AU - Camp, J. B.

AU - Canepa, M.

AU - Cannon, K. C.

AU - Cao, H.

AU - Cao, J.

AU - Carapella, G.

AU - Carbognani, F.

AU - Caride, S.

AU - Carney, M. F.

AU - Carullo, G.

AU - Casanueva Diaz, J.

AU - Casentini, C.

AU - Castaneda, J.

AU - Caudill, S.

AU - Cavaglia, M.

AU - Cavalier, F.

AU - Cavalieri, R.

AU - Cella, G.

AU - Cerdá-Durán, P.

AU - Cesarini, E.

AU - Chaibi, O.

AU - Chakravarti, K.

AU - Chan, C.

AU - Chan, M.

AU - Chao, S.

AU - Charlton, P.

AU - Chase, E. A.

AU - Chassande-Mottin, E.

AU - Chatterjee, D.

AU - Chaturvedi, M.

AU - Chen, H. Y.

AU - Chen, X.

AU - Chen, Y.

AU - Cheng, H. P.

AU - Cheong, C. K.

AU - Chia, H. Y.

AU - Chiadini, F.

AU - Chierici, R.

AU - Chincarini, A.

AU - Chiummo, A.

AU - Cho, G.

AU - Cho, H. S.

AU - Cho, M.

AU - Christensen, N.

AU - Chu, Q.

AU - Chua, S.

AU - Chung, K. W.

AU - Chung, S.

AU - Ciani, G.

AU - Ciecielag, P.

AU - Cieślar, M.

AU - Ciobanu, A. A.

AU - Easter, P. J.

AU - Galaudage, S.

AU - Goncharov, B.

AU - Hübner, M. T.

AU - Lasky, P. D.

AU - Levin, Y.

AU - Meadors, G. D.

AU - Payne, E.

AU - Romero-Shaw, I. M.

AU - Sarin, N.

AU - Smith, R. J.E.

AU - Talbot, C.

AU - Thrane, E.

AU - Vinciguerra, S.

AU - Vivanco, Francisco Hernandez

AU - Zhu, X. J.

AU - Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor

AU - Virgo Collaboration

AU - The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

AU - Tinsman, Calley

N1 - Funding Information: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Publisher Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2020/4/20

Y1 - 2020/4/20

N2 - We present results from offline searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data for gamma-ray transients coincident with the compact binary coalescences observed by the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. In particular, we perform follow-up for both confirmed events and low significance candidates reported in the LIGO/Virgo catalog GWTC-1. We search for temporal coincidences between these GW signals and GBM-triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We also use the GBM Untargeted and Targeted subthreshold searches to find coincident gamma-rays below the onboard triggering threshold. This work implements a refined statistical approach by incorporating GW astrophysical source probabilities and GBM visibilities of LIGO/Virgo sky localizations to search for cumulative signatures of coincident subthreshold gamma-rays. All search methods recover the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A occurring ∼1.7 s after the binary neutron-star merger GW170817. We also present results from a new search seeking GBM counterparts to LIGO single-interferometer triggers. This search finds a candidate joint event, but given the nature of the GBM signal and localization, as well as the high joint false alarm rate of 1.1 10-6 Hz, we do not consider it an astrophysical association. We find no additional coincidences.

AB - We present results from offline searches of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) data for gamma-ray transients coincident with the compact binary coalescences observed by the gravitational-wave (GW) detectors Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs. In particular, we perform follow-up for both confirmed events and low significance candidates reported in the LIGO/Virgo catalog GWTC-1. We search for temporal coincidences between these GW signals and GBM-triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We also use the GBM Untargeted and Targeted subthreshold searches to find coincident gamma-rays below the onboard triggering threshold. This work implements a refined statistical approach by incorporating GW astrophysical source probabilities and GBM visibilities of LIGO/Virgo sky localizations to search for cumulative signatures of coincident subthreshold gamma-rays. All search methods recover the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A occurring ∼1.7 s after the binary neutron-star merger GW170817. We also present results from a new search seeking GBM counterparts to LIGO single-interferometer triggers. This search finds a candidate joint event, but given the nature of the GBM signal and localization, as well as the high joint false alarm rate of 1.1 10-6 Hz, we do not consider it an astrophysical association. We find no additional coincidences.

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A joint Fermi-GBM and LIGO/Virgo analysis of compact binary mergers from the first and second gravitational-wave observing runs

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