Potential Gravitational-wave and Gamma-ray Multi-messenger Candidate from 2015 October 30

Nitz, Alexander H. and Nielsen, Alex B. and Capano, Collin D. (2019) Potential Gravitational-wave and Gamma-ray Multi-messenger Candidate from 2015 October 30. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 876 (1). L4. ISSN 2041-8205

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Abstract

We present a search for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers that produced gravitational waves during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), and gamma-ray emission seen by either the Swift-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) or the Fermi-Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), similar to GW170817 and GRB 170817A. We introduce a new method using a combined ranking statistic to detect sources that do not produce significant gravitational-wave or gamma-ray burst candidates individually. The current version of this search can increase by 70% the detections of joint gravitational-wave and gamma-ray signals. We find one possible candidate observed by LIGO and Fermi-GBM, 1-OGC 151030, at a false alarm rate of 1 in 13 yr. If astrophysical, this candidate would correspond to a merger at ${187}_{-87}^{+99}\,$ Mpc with source-frame chirp mass of ${1.30}_{-0.03}^{+0.02}\,{M}_{\odot }$. If we assume that the viewing angle must be <30° to be observed by Fermi-GBM, our estimate of the distance would become ${224}_{-78}^{+88}\,$ Mpc. By comparing the rate of BNS mergers to our search-estimated rate of false alarms, we estimate that there is a 1 in 4 chance that this candidate is astrophysical in origin.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM Open Press > Physics and Astronomy
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Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2023 06:44
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2024 03:56
URI: http://journal.submissionpages.com/id/eprint/1428

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