IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF GRB 051103 FROM LIGO OBSERVATIONS

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Abadie, J. [1 ]
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abernathy, M. [3 ]
Adams, C. [4 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Affeldt, C. [5 ,6 ]
Ajith, P. [1 ]
Allen, B. [5 ,6 ,7 ]
Allen, G. S. [8 ]
Ceron, E. Amador [7 ]
Amariutei, D. [9 ]
Amin, R. S. [10 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [7 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Arain, M. A. [9 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Aston, S. M. [11 ]
Atkinson, D. [12 ]
Aufmuth, P. [5 ,6 ]
Aulbert, C. [5 ,6 ]
Aylott, B. E. [11 ]
Babak, S. [13 ]
Baker, P. [14 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Barker, D. [12 ]
Barnum, S. [15 ]
Barr, B. [3 ]
Barriga, P. [16 ]
Barsotti, L. [15 ]
Barton, M. A. [12 ]
Bartos, I. [17 ]
Bassiri, R. [3 ]
Bastarrika, M. [3 ]
Bauchrowitz, J. [5 ,6 ]
Behnke, B. [13 ]
Bell, A. S. [3 ]
Belopolski, I. [17 ]
Benacquista, M. [18 ]
Bertolini, A. [5 ,6 ]
Betzwieser, J. [1 ]
Beveridge, N. [3 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [19 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [20 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Birch, J. [4 ]
Biswas, R. [7 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
机构
[1] LIGO Calif Inst Technol, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[3] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[4] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[5] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[6] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[7] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[8] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[9] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[10] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[11] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[12] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[13] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[14] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[15] LIGO Massachusetts Inst Technol, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[16] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
[17] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[18] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[19] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[20] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[21] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[22] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[23] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[24] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[25] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[26] HSIC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[27] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[28] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[29] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[30] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[31] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[32] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[33] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[34] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[35] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[36] Univ Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[37] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[38] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[39] INFN Sez Napoli, Naples, Italy
[40] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[41] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[42] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[43] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[44] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[45] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[46] Eotvos Lorand Univ, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
[47] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[48] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[49] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[50] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma De Mallorca, Spain
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 051103); gravitational waves; stars: magnetars; GAMMA-RAY BURSTS; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE BURSTS; SHORT-DURATION; GIANT FLARES; SCIENCE RUN; JET BREAKS; SEARCH; REPEATER; GRB-051103; ENERGETICS;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral galaxy M81, which is 3.6 Mpc from Earth. Possible progenitors for short-hard GRBs include compact object mergers and soft gamma repeater (SGR) giant flares. A merger progenitor would produce a characteristic GW signal that should be detectable at a distance of M81, while GW emission from an SGR is not expected to be detectable at that distance. We found no evidence of a GW signal associated with GRB 051103. Assuming weakly beamed gamma-ray emission with a jet semi-angle of 30 degrees, we exclude a binary neutron star merger in M81 as the progenitor with a confidence of 98%. Neutron star-black hole mergers are excluded with >99% confidence. If the event occurred in M81, then our findings support the hypothesis that GRB 051103 was due to an SGR giant flare, making it one of the most distant extragalactic magnetars observed to date.
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