Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration

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

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
, The Virgo Collaboration

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

California Institute of Technology
Louisiana State University
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
University of Salerno
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Monash University
National Science Foundation
Australian National University
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Leibniz University Hannover
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
University of Cambridge
University of Birmingham
Northwestern University
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Université de Lyon
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Strathclyde
University of Udine
Université Paris Cité
California State University Fullerton
IN2P3/CNRS
European Gravitational Observatory
University of Florida
Columbia University
University of Naples Federico II
Université Grenoble Alpes
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Montclair State University

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Abstract

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
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	915
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abee15
State	Published - Jul 10 2021

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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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