• Media type: Text; E-Article
  • Title: Search for Coincident Gravitational Waves and Long Gamma-Ray Bursts from 4-OGC and the Fermi-GBM/Swift-BAT Catalog
  • Contributor: Wang, Yi-Fan [Author]; Nitz, Alexander H. [Author]; Capano, Collin D. [Author]; Wang, Xiangyu Ivy [Author]; Yang, Yu-Han [Author]; Zhang, Bin-Bin [Author]
  • imprint: London : Institute of Physics Publ., 2022
  • Published in: The astrophysical journal : Part 2, Letters 939 (2022), Nr. 1 ; The astrophysical journal : Part 2, Letters
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/13611; https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac990c
  • ISSN: 2041-8205
  • Keywords: advanced LIGO ; swift ; supernova ; observing run
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  • Description: The recent discovery of a kilonova associated with an apparent long-duration gamma-ray burst has challenged the typical classification that long gamma-ray bursts originate from the core collapse of massive stars and short gamma-ray bursts are from compact binary coalescence. The kilonova indicates a neutron star merger origin and suggests the viability of gravitational-wave and long gamma-ray burst multimessenger astronomy. Gravitational waves play a crucial role by providing independent information for the source properties. This work revisits the archival 2015-2020 LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave candidates from the 4-OGC catalog that are consistent with a binary neutron star or neutron star-black hole merger and the long-duration gamma-ray bursts from the Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT catalogs. We search for spatial and temporal coincidence with up to a 10 s time lag between gravitational-wave candidates and the onset of long-duration gamma-ray bursts. The most significant candidate association has only a false-alarm rate of once every 2 yr; given the LIGO/Virgo observational period, this is consistent with a null result. We report an exclusion distance for each search candidate for a fiducial gravitational-wave signal with conservative viewing angle assumptions.
  • Access State: Open Access