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Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226

J J Racusin 1, 2 E B Burns 3 A. A Goldstein 4 V. Connaughton 4 C.A. Wilson-Hodge 5 P. Jenke 3 L. Blackburn 6 M S Briggs 7 J B Broida 8 J J Camp 9 N. Christensen 10 C M Hui 5 L L Littenberg 4 P S Shawhan 11 L. Singer 2 J J Veitch 12 P B Bhat 3 W. Cleveland 3 G F Fitzpatrick 13 M H Gibby 14 A von Kienlin 15 S Mcbreen 16 B. Mailyan 3 C.A. Meegan 3 W.S. Paciesas 4 R.D. Preece 3 O.J. Roberts 17 M S Stanbro 7 P Veres 7 B.-B B Zhang 3 M. Ackermann 17 A. Albert 18 William B. Atwood 19 Magnus Axelsson 20 L. Baldini 21 Jean Ballet 22 Guido Barbiellini 23 Matthew G. Baring 24 D. Bastieri 25 R. Bellazzini 26 E. Bissaldi 21 R.D. Blandford 27 E.D. Bloom 28 R. Bonino 29 J. Bregeon 30 Pascal Bruel S. Buson 2 G.A. Caliandro 27 R. A. Cameron 27 R. Caputo 19 M. Caragiulo 31 P. A. Caraveo 32 E. Cavazzuti 33 E. Charles 27 J. Chiang 27 S. Ciprini 33 F. Costanza 21 A. Cuoco 34 S. Cutini 33 F. d'Ammando 35 F. de Palma 21 R. Desiante 29 S. W. Digel 27 N. Di Lalla 36 M. Di Mauro 28 L. Di Venere 31 P S. Drell 27 C. Favuzzi 31 E.C. Ferrara 37 W.B. Focke 27 Y. Fukazawa 38 S Funk 39 P. Fusco 40 F. Gargano 21 D. Gasparrini 33 N. Giglietto 26 G. Gill 41 M. Giroletti 42 T. Glanzmann 28 J. Granot 43 D. Green 2 J.E Grove 44 Lucas Guillemot 37 S. Guiriec 2 A.K. Harding 2 T. Jogler 45 G. Jóhannesson 46 T. Kamae 47 S. Kensei 38 D. Kocevski 2 M. Kuss 40 S. Larsson 20 L. Latronico 29 J. Li 48 F. Longo 26 F. Loparco P. Lubrano 49 J. D. Magill 11 S. Maldera 29 D. Malyshev 50 J. E. Mcenery 2 P.F. Michelson 27 T. Mizuno 51 A. Morselli 52 I. V. Moskalenko 28 M. Negro 29 E. Nuss 30 N. Omodei 28 M. Orienti 53 E. Orlando 27 J. F. Ormes 54 D. Paneque 55 S. Perkins 2 M. Pesce-Rollins 31 Frédéric Piron 30 G. Pivato 21 T.A. Porter 27 G. Principe 50 S. Rainò 26 R. Rando 25 M. Razzano 56 S. Razzaque 57 A. Reimer 58 O. Reimer 58 P.M. Saz Parkinson 19 J.D. Scargle 59 C S Sgrò 21 D S Simone 60 E. J. Siskind 61 D.A. Smith 62 F S Spada 21 P S Spinelli 40 D.J. Suson 63 H H Tajima 64 J.B Thayer 28 D.F Torres 48 E Troja 2 Y Uchiyama 65 G Vianello 44 K.S. S Wood 44 M. Wood 22 
1 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2 LHEA - GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
3 UAH - University of Alabama in Huntsville
4 USRA - Universities Space Research Association
5 MSFC - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
6 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7 CSPAR - Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research [Huntsville]
8 Carleton College
9 Observatoire Royal de Belgique
10 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Northfield]
11 University of Maryland [College Park]
12 University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
13 UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin]
14 Jacobs Technology ESCG
15 MPE - Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
16 University College of Dublin
17 DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg]
18 LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory
19 SCIPP - Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
20 KTH - Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm]
21 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa]
22 AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
23 INFN, Sezione di Trieste - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
24 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Houston]
25 INFN, Sezione di Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
26 INFN, sezione di Bari - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari
27 KIPAC - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
28 Stanford University
29 INFN, Sezione di Torino - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
30 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
31 Dipartimento di Fisica M. MerlinUniversitte del Politecnico di Bari,
32 IASF-MI - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano
33 Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Center
34 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
35 IRA - Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna]
36 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
37 USN - Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay
38 Hiroshima City University
39 SLAC - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
40 Dipartimento di Fisica \M. Merlin" dell'Universita e del Politecnico di Bari
41 Open University of Israël
42 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
43 Department of Natural Sciences [Ra'anana}
44 NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
45 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
46 Science Institute, University of Iceland
47 Tokyo University of Science [Tokyo]
48 ICE-CSIC - Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona]
49 INFN, Sezione di Perugia - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
50 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
51 University of Iceland [Reykjavik]
52 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata
53 Istituto di Radioastronomia INAF
54 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Denver]
55 MPIK - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
56 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
57 PPM Group [University of Johannesburg]
Department of Geology [University of Johannesburg]
58 Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck]
59 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
60 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique
61 NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc., Lattingtown
62 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
63 Purdue University [West Lafayette]
64 Nagoya University
65 Department of Physics
Abstract : We present the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012. At the time of the LIGO triggers on LVT151012 and GW151226, GBM was observing 68% and 83% of the localization regions, and LAT was observing 47% and 32%, respectively. No candidate electromagnetic counterparts were detected by either the GBM or LAT. We present a detailed analysis of the GBM and LAT data over a range of timescales from seconds to years, using automated pipelines and new techniques for characterizing the flux upper bounds across large areas of the sky. Due to the partial GBM and LAT coverage of the large LIGO localization regions at the trigger times for both events, differences in source distances and masses, as well as the uncertain degree to which emission from these sources could be beamed, these non-detections cannot be used to constrain the variety of theoretical models recently applied to explain the candidate GBM counterpart to GW150914.
Keywords : methods: observational gamma rays: general gravitational waves
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J J Racusin, E B Burns, A. A Goldstein, V. Connaughton, C.A. Wilson-Hodge, et al.. Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226. The Astrophysical Journal, American Astronomical Society, 2017, 835 (1), pp.82. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/82⟩. ⟨insu-01492674⟩

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