Constraining Near-simultaneous Radio Emission from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB

Alice P. Curtin; Sloane Sirota; Victoria M. Kaspi; Shriharsh P. Tendulkar; Mohit Bhardwaj; Amanda M. Cook; Wen-Fai Fong; B. M. Gaensler; Robert A. Main; Kiyoshi W. Masui; Daniele Michilli; Ayush Pandhi; Aaron B. Pearlman; Paul Scholz; Kaitlyn Shin

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad5c65

The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)

Constraining Near-simultaneous Radio Emission from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CHIME/FRB

Alice P. Curtin,
Sloane Sirota,
Victoria M. Kaspi,
Shriharsh P. Tendulkar,
Mohit Bhardwaj,
Amanda M. Cook,
Wen-Fai Fong,
B. M. Gaensler,
Robert A. Main,
Kiyoshi W. Masui,
Daniele Michilli,
Ayush Pandhi,
Aaron B. Pearlman,
Paul Scholz,
Kaitlyn Shin

Affiliations

Alice P. Curtin: ORCiD; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Sloane Sirota: ORCiD; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Victoria M. Kaspi: ORCiD; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Shriharsh P. Tendulkar: ORCiD; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai 400005, India; National Centre for Radio Astrophysics , Post Bag 3, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India; CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program , MaRS Centre, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, Suite 505, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1 Canada
Mohit Bhardwaj: ORCiD; McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Amanda M. Cook: ORCiD; David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
Wen-Fai Fong: ORCiD; Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University , Evanston, IL 60208, USA
B. M. Gaensler: ORCiD; David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Robert A. Main: ORCiD; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Kiyoshi W. Masui: ORCiD; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Daniele Michilli: ORCiD; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Ayush Pandhi: ORCiD; David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
Aaron B. Pearlman: ORCiD; Department of Physics, McGill University , 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada ; [email protected]; Trottier Space Institute, McGill University , 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada
Paul Scholz: ORCiD; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University , 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON MJ3 1P3, Canada
Kaitlyn Shin: ORCiD; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5c65
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 972, no. 1
p. 125

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We use the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst (FRB) Project to search for FRBs that are temporally and spatially coincident with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) occurring between 2018 July 7 and 2023 August 3. We do not find any temporal (within 1 week) and spatial (within overlapping 3 σ localization regions) coincidences between any CHIME/FRB candidates and all GRBs with 1 σ localization uncertainties <1°. As such, we use CHIME/FRB to constrain the possible FRB-like radio emission for 27 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) that were within 17° of CHIME/FRB’s meridian at a point either 6 hr prior up to 12 hr after the high-energy emission. Two SGRBs, GRB 210909A and GRB 230208A, were above the horizon at CHIME at the time of their high-energy emission and we place some of the first constraints on simultaneous FRB-like radio emission from SGRBs. While neither of these two SGRBs have known redshifts, we construct a redshift range for each GRB based on their high-energy fluence and a derived SGRB energy distribution. For GRB 210909A, this redshift range corresponds to z = [0.009, 1.64] with a mean of z = 0.13. Thus, for GRB 210909A, we constrain the radio luminosity at the time of the high-energy emission to L < 2 × 10 ^46 erg s ^−1 , L < 5 × 10 ^44 erg s ^−1 , and L < 3 × 10 ^42 erg s ^−1 assuming redshifts of z = 0.85, z = 0.16, and z = 0.013, respectively. We compare these constraints with the predicted simultaneous radio luminosities from different compact object merger models.

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LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy: Astrophysics
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