Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a
(2021) Astrophysical Journal — Vol. 915 (2021)
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Miller, Andrew 
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- We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the first part of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (1 April 2019 15:00 UTC - 1 October 2019 15:00 UTC). 105 gamma-ray bursts were analyzed using a search for generic gravitational-wave transients; 32 gamma-ray bursts were analyzed with a search that specifically targets neutron star binary mergers as short gamma-ray burst progenitors. We describe a method to calculate the probability that triggers from the binary merger targeted search are astrophysical and apply that method to the most significant gamma-ray bursts in that search. We find no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with the gamma-ray bursts 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 gamma-ray burst.
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Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Bruno, G., Clesse, S., Miller, A., Piotrzkowski, K., Tanasijczuk, A. J., Zhou, M., Zhou, Z., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., & Zweizig, J. (2021). Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a. Astrophysical Journal, 915. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee15 (Original work published 2021)