FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS OF THE LIGO EVENT GW150914

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作者
Ackermann, M. [1 ]
Ajello, M. [2 ]
Albert, A. [3 ,4 ,20 ]
Anderson, B. [5 ,6 ]
Arimoto, M. [7 ]
Atwood, W. B. [8 ,9 ]
Axelsson, M. [10 ,11 ]
Baldini, L. [3 ,4 ,12 ,13 ]
Ballet, J. [14 ]
Barbiellini, G. [15 ,16 ]
Baring, M. G. [17 ]
Bastieri, D. [18 ,19 ]
Gonzalez, J. Becerra [20 ,21 ,22 ]
Bellazzini, R. [23 ]
Bissaldi, E. [24 ]
Blandford, R. D. [3 ,4 ]
Bloom, E. D. [3 ,4 ]
Bonino, R. [25 ,26 ]
Bottacini, E. [3 ,4 ]
Brandt, T. J. [20 ]
Bregeon, J. [27 ]
Britto, R. J. [28 ]
Bruel, P. [29 ]
Buehler, R. [1 ]
Burnett, T. H. [30 ]
Buson, S. [20 ,31 ,32 ,33 ,34 ]
Caliandro, G. A. [3 ,4 ,35 ]
Cameron, R. A. [3 ,4 ]
Caputo, R. [8 ,9 ]
Caragiulo, M. [24 ]
Caraveo, P. A. [36 ]
Casandjian, J. M. [14 ]
Cavazzuti, E. [37 ]
Charles, E. [3 ,4 ]
Chekhtman, A. [3 ,4 ,20 ,38 ,39 ]
Chiang, J. [3 ,4 ]
Chiaro, G. [19 ]
Ciprini, S. [37 ,40 ]
Cohen-Tanugi, J. [27 ]
Cominsky, L. R. [41 ]
Condon, B. [42 ]
Costanza, F. [24 ]
Cuoco, A. [25 ,26 ]
Cutini, S. [37 ,40 ,43 ]
D'Ammando, F. [44 ,45 ]
de Palma, F. [24 ,46 ]
Desiante, R. [25 ,47 ]
Digel, S. W. [3 ,4 ]
Di Lalla, N. [23 ]
Di Mauro, M. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[2] Clemson Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Kinard Lab Phys, Clemson, SC 29634 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Dept Phys, WW Hansen Expt Phys Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[4] Stanford Univ, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[6] AlbaNova, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[7] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Meguro, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[8] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[9] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[10] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[11] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Dept Phys, Minami Osawa 1-1, Hachioji, Tokyo 1920397, Japan
[12] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[14] Univ Paris Diderot, Lab AIM, Serv Astrophys, CEA,IRFU,CNRS,CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[15] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[16] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Fis, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[17] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, MS 108,POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 USA
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[19] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis Astron G Galilei, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[20] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[21] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[22] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[23] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[25] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[26] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Gen Amadeo Avogadro, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[27] Univ Montpellier, Lab Univers & Particules Montpellier, CNRS IN2P3, F-34059 Montpellier, France
[28] Univ Johannesburg, Dept Phys, POB 524, ZA-2006 Auckland Pk, South Africa
[29] Ecole Polytech, Lab Leprince Ringuet, CNRS IN2P3, Palaiseau, France
[30] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[31] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Phys, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
[32] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Ctr Space Sci & Technol, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
[33] Ctr Res & Explorat Space Sci & Technol CRESST, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[34] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[35] CIFS, I-10133 Turin, Italy
[36] INAF Ist Astrofis Spaziale Fis Cosm, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[37] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI Sci Data Ctr, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[38] George Mason Univ, Coll Sci, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[39] Naval Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[41] Sonoma State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[42] Univ Bordeaux 1, Ctr Etud Nucl Bordeaux Gradignan, IN2P3, CNRS, BP120, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[43] INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, I-00040 Rome, Italy
[44] INAF Ist Radioastron, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
[45] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Astron, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[46] Univ Telemat Pegaso, Piazza Trieste Trento 48, I-80132 Naples, Italy
[47] Univ Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[48] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[49] Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[50] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Inst Astrofis, Fac Fis, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
gamma-ray burst: general; gamma-rays: general; gravitational waves; methods: observational; GAMMA-RAY BURST; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPART; LIKELIHOOD RATIO; GEV EMISSION; AFTERGLOW; MERGERS; SAMPLE; SWIFT;
D O I
10.3847/2041-8205/823/1/L2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view (FoV) covering similar to 1/5 of the sky and it completes a survey of the entire sky in high-energy gamma-rays every 3 hr. It enables searches for transient phenomena over timescales from milliseconds to years. Among these phenomena could be electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) sources. In this paper, we present a detailed study of the LAT observations relevant to Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) event GW150914, which is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and has been interpreted as being due to the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The localization region for GW150914 was outside the LAT FoV at the time of the GW signal. However, as part of routine survey observations, the LAT observed the entire LIGO localization region within similar to 70 minutes of the trigger and thus enabled a comprehensive search for a.-ray counterpart to GW150914. The study of the LAT data presented here did not find any potential counterparts to GW150914, but it did provide limits on the presence of a transient counterpart above 100 MeV on timescales of hours to days over the entire GW150914 localization region.
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