FERMI-LAT observations of the ligo event GW150914

Markus Ackermann; Marco Ajello; A. Albert; B. Anderson; M. Arimoto; William B. Atwood; Magnus Axelsson; Luca Baldini; Jean Ballet; Guido Barbiellini; Matthew G. Baring; D. Bastieri; J. Becerra Gonzalez; R. Bellazzini; E. Bissaldi; R. D. Blandford; E. D. Bloom; R. Bonino; E. Bottacini; T. J. Brandt; J. Bregeon; R. J. Britto; Pascal Bruel; R. Buehler; T. H. Burnett; S. Buson; G. A. Caliandro; R. A. Cameron; R. Caputo; M. Caragiulo; P. A. Caraveo; J. M. Casandjian; E. Cavazzuti; E. Charles; A. Chekhtman; J. Chiang; G. Chiaro; S. Ciprini; J. Cohen-Tanugi; L. R. Cominsky; B. Condon; F. Costanza; A. Cuoco; S. Cutini; F. D’ammando; F. De Palma; R. Desiante; S. W. Digel; N. Di Lalla; M. Di Mauro; L. Di Venere; A. Domínguez; P. S. Drell; R. Dubois; D. Dumora; C. Favuzzi; S. J. Fegan; E. C. Ferrara; A. Franckowiak; Y. Fukazawa; S. Funk; P. Fusco; F. Gargano; D. Gasparrini; N. Gehrels; N. Giglietto; M. Giomi; P. Giommi; F. Giordano; M. Giroletti; T. Glanzman; G. Godfrey; G. A. Gomez-Vargas; J. Granot; D. Green; I. A. Grenier; M.-H. Grondin; J. E. Grove; Lucas Guillemot; S. Guiriec; D. Hadasch; A. K. Harding; E. Hays; J. W. Hewitt; A. B. Hill; D. Horan; T. Jogler; G. Jóhannesson; T. Kamae; S. Kensei; D. Kocevski; M. Kuss; G. La Mura; S. Larsson; L. Latronico; M. Lemoine-Goumard; J. Li; L. Li; F. Longo; F. Loparco; M. N. Lovellette; P. Lubrano; G. M. Madejski; J. Magill; S. Maldera; A. Manfreda; M. Marelli; M. Mayer; M. N. Mazziotta; J. E. Mcenery; M. Meyer; P. F. Michelson; N. Mirabal; T. Mizuno; A. A. Moiseev; M. E. Monzani; E. Moretti; A. Morselli; I. V. Moskalenko; S. Murgia; M. Negro; E. Nuss; T. Ohsugi; N. Omodei; M. Orienti; E. Orlando; J. F. Ormes; D. Paneque; J. S. Perkins; M. Pesce-Rollins; F. Piron; G. Pivato; T. A. Porter; J. L. Racusin; S. Rainò; R. Rando; S. Razzaque; A. Reimer; O. Reimer; T. Reposeur; S. Ritz; L. S. Rochester; R. W. Romani; P. M. Saz Parkinson; C. Sgrò; D. Simone; E. J. Siskind; D. A. Smith; F. Spada; G. Spandre; P. Spinelli; D. J. Suson; H. Tajima; J. G. Thayer; J. B. Thayer; D. J. Thompson; L. Tibaldo; D. F. Torres; E. Troja; Y. Uchiyama; T. M. Venters; G. Vianello; K. S. Wood; M. Wood; G. Zaharijas; S. Zhu; S. Zimmer

FERMI-LAT observations of the ligo event GW150914

Markus Ackermann Marco Ajello ¹ A. Albert ² B. Anderson ³ M. Arimoto William B. Atwood ⁴ Magnus Axelsson Luca Baldini Jean Ballet ⁵ Guido Barbiellini Matthew G. Baring D. Bastieri J. Becerra Gonzalez R. Bellazzini E. Bissaldi R. D. Blandford E. D. Bloom R. Bonino E. Bottacini T. J. Brandt J. Bregeon R. J. Britto ⁶ Pascal Bruel ^{7, 8} R. Buehler T. H. Burnett S. Buson G. A. Caliandro R. A. Cameron R. Caputo M. Caragiulo P. A. Caraveo J. M. Casandjian ⁹ E. Cavazzuti E. Charles A. Chekhtman J. Chiang G. Chiaro S. Ciprini J. Cohen-Tanugi L. R. Cominsky B. Condon F. Costanza A. Cuoco S. Cutini F. D’ammando F. De Palma R. Desiante S. W. Digel ¹⁰ N. Di Lalla ¹¹ M. Di Mauro ¹² L. Di Venere A. Domínguez P. S. Drell R. Dubois ¹³ D. Dumora ¹⁴ C. Favuzzi S. J. Fegan E. C. Ferrara ¹⁵ A. Franckowiak Y. Fukazawa S. Funk ¹⁶ P. Fusco ¹⁷ F. Gargano D. Gasparrini N. Gehrels N. Giglietto M. Giomi P. Giommi F. Giordano M. Giroletti ¹⁸ T. Glanzman G. Godfrey G. A. Gomez-Vargas J. Granot D. Green I. A. Grenier ¹⁹ M.-H. Grondin J. E. Grove Lucas Guillemot ^{20, 21} S. Guiriec D. Hadasch A. K. Harding ²² E. Hays J. W. Hewitt A. B. Hill D. Horan ²³ T. Jogler G. Jóhannesson T. Kamae S. Kensei D. Kocevski M. Kuss ²⁴ G. La Mura ²⁵ S. Larsson ²⁶ L. Latronico M. Lemoine-Goumard J. Li ²⁷ L. Li ²⁸ F. Longo F. Loparco ²⁹ M. N. Lovellette P. Lubrano G. M. Madejski J. Magill S. Maldera A. Manfreda M. Marelli M. Mayer ³⁰ M. N. Mazziotta J. E. Mcenery M. Meyer P. F. Michelson ³¹ N. Mirabal T. Mizuno A. A. Moiseev M. E. Monzani E. Moretti A. Morselli I. V. Moskalenko S. Murgia M. Negro ³² E. Nuss ²⁹ T. Ohsugi N. Omodei M. Orienti E. Orlando J. F. Ormes D. Paneque J. S. Perkins ³³ M. Pesce-Rollins F. Piron ²⁹ G. Pivato T. A. Porter ³⁴ J. L. Racusin S. Rainò R. Rando S. Razzaque A. Reimer O. Reimer T. Reposeur ³⁵ S. Ritz ^{36, 37} L. S. Rochester R. W. Romani P. M. Saz Parkinson ⁴ C. Sgrò ³⁸ D. Simone ³⁹ E. J. Siskind D. A. Smith ⁴⁰ F. Spada G. Spandre P. Spinelli ⁴¹ D. J. Suson H. Tajima ⁴² J. G. Thayer J. B. Thayer D. J. Thompson ⁴³ L. Tibaldo D. F. Torres E. Troja Y. Uchiyama ⁴⁴ T. M. Venters G. Vianello K. S. Wood ⁴⁵ M. Wood G. Zaharijas S. Zhu ⁴⁶ S. Zimmer ⁴⁷

1 Stanford University [Stanford]

2 GRPHE - Groupe de Recherche en Physique des Hautes Energies

3 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory

4 SCIPP - Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

5 GREThA - Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée

6 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681

7 LMAP - Laboratoire de Mathématiques et de leurs Applications [Pau]

8 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

9 AIM - UMR 7158 - UMR E 9005 - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation

10 SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

11 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research

12 Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine

13 IHU-LIRYC

14 GLAST

CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan

15 Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino

16 LSHTM - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

17 INFN, sezione di Bari - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari

18 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

19 ENSA Nantes - École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes

20 USN - Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay

21 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

22 GFSC Astrophysics Science Division

23 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet

24 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa

25 DIEE

26 GU - University of Gothenburg

27 CAU - China Agricultural University

28 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)

29 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier

30 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand

31 HEPL - Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory

32 Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

33 University of Botswana

34 Department of Animal and Avian Sciences

35 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan

36 Medical Sciences Division

37 Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Biologie, la Santé la Société, et l’Environnement

38 CHU Dijon - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand

39 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique

40 Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation

41 ENSA-V - École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles

42 Department of Plant Sciences [Davis, CA]

43 Sea Mammal Research Unit

44 Department of Physics [Tokyo]

45 NRL - Naval Research Laboratory

46 Zhejiang University

47 LCFC - Laboratoire de Conception Fabrication Commande

Abstract : The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view (FoV) covering $\sim 1/5$ 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 ~70 minutes of the trigger and thus enabled a comprehensive search for a γ-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.

Keywords : gamma rays: general methods: observational ravitational waves

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Sciences of the Universe [physics]

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