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High-energy electromagnetic offline follow-up of LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave binary coalescence candidate events
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We present two different search methods for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) events from ground-based detectors using archival NASA high-energy data from the Fermi-GBM and RXTE-ASM instruments. To demonstrate the methods, we use a limited number of representative GW background noise events produced by a search for binary neutron star coalescence over the last two months of the LIGO-Virgo S6/VSR3 joint science run. Time and sky location provided by the GW data trigger a targeted search in the high-energy photon data. We use two custom pipelines: one to search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts in GBM, and the other to search for a variety of X-ray afterglow model signals in ASM. We measure the efficiency of the joint pipelines to weak gamma-ray burst counterparts, and a family of model X-ray afterglows. By requiring a detectable signal in either electromagnetic instrument coincident with a GW event, we are able to reject a large majority of GW candidates. This reduces the signal-to-noise of the loudest surviving GW background event by around 15-20%.<br />Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJS
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1410.0929
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/217/1/8