The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)
Constraining Possible γ-Ray Burst Emission from GW230529 Using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM
- Samuele Ronchini,
- Suman Bala,
- Joshua Wood,
- James Delaunay,
- Simone Dichiara,
- Jamie A. Kennea,
- Tyler Parsotan,
- Gayathri Raman,
- Aaron Tohuvavohu,
- Naresh Adhikari,
- Narayana P. Bhat,
- Sylvia Biscoveanu,
- Elisabetta Bissaldi,
- Eric Burns,
- Sergio Campana,
- Koustav Chandra,
- William H. Cleveland,
- Sarah Dalessi,
- Massimiliano De Pasquale,
- Juan García-Bellido,
- Claudio Gasbarra,
- Misty M. Giles,
- Ish Gupta,
- Dieter Hartmann,
- Boyan A. Hristov,
- Michelle C. Hui,
- Rahul Kashyap,
- Daniel Kocevski,
- Bagrat Mailyan,
- Christian Malacaria,
- Hiroyuki Nakano,
- Giacomo Principe,
- Oliver J. Roberts,
- Bangalore Sathyaprakash,
- Lijing Shao,
- Eleonora Troja,
- Péter Veres,
- Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge
Affiliations
- Samuele Ronchini
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Suman Bala
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- Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association , Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
- Joshua Wood
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
- James Delaunay
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Simone Dichiara
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Jamie A. Kennea
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Tyler Parsotan
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Gayathri Raman
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University , 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Aaron Tohuvavohu
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- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada; Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto , Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada
- Naresh Adhikari
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- Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee , Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
- Narayana P. Bhat
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville , Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
- Sylvia Biscoveanu
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University , Evanston, IL 60201, USA
- Elisabetta Bissaldi
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- Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica , Politecnico di Bari, Via G. Amendola 173, 70125 Bari, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
- Eric Burns
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
- Sergio Campana
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera , Via E. Bianchi 46, 23807 Merate, LC, Italy
- Koustav Chandra
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- Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- William H. Cleveland
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- Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association , Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
- Sarah Dalessi
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- Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville , 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA; Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, The University of Alabama in Huntsville , Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
- Massimiliano De Pasquale
- MIFT Department, Polo Papardo, University of Messina , Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina, Italy
- Juan García-Bellido
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- Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Cantoblanco 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Claudio Gasbarra
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata , I-00133 Roma, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
- Misty M. Giles
- Jacobs Space Exploration Group , Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
- Ish Gupta
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- Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Dieter Hartmann
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson University , Kinard Lab of Physics, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
- Boyan A. Hristov
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, The University of Alabama in Huntsville , Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
- Michelle C. Hui
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
- Rahul Kashyap
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- Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Daniel Kocevski
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
- Bagrat Mailyan
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- Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology , Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
- Christian Malacaria
- International Space Science Institute , Hallerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
- Hiroyuki Nakano
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- Faculty of Law, Ryukoku University , Kyoto 612-8577, Japan
- Giacomo Principe
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Trieste , I-34127 Trieste, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy; INAF—Istituto di Radioastronomia , I-40129 Bologna, Italy
- Oliver J. Roberts
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- Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space and Research Association , 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
- Bangalore Sathyaprakash
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- Institute for Gravitation & the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Lijing Shao
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- Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China; National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100012, People's Republic of China
- Eleonora Troja
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- Department of Physics, University of Rome Tor Vergata , 00100 Rome, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica , 00100 Rome, Italy
- Péter Veres
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- Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville , Huntsville, AL 35899, USA; Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville , Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
- Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad5d74
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 970,
no. 1
p. L20
Abstract
GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass gap, corresponding to the range 3–5 M _⊙ . If interpreted as a neutron star–black hole merger, this event has the most symmetric mass ratio detected so far and therefore has a relatively high probability of producing electromagnetic (EM) emission. However, no EM counterpart has been reported. At the merger time t _0 , Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM together covered 100% of the sky. Performing a targeted search in a time window [ t _0 − 20 s, t _0 + 20 s], we report no detection by the Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM instruments. Combining the position-dependent γ -ray flux upper limits and the gravitational-wave posterior distribution of luminosity distance, sky localization, and inclination angle of the binary, we derive constraints on the characteristic luminosity and structure of the jet possibly launched during the merger. Assuming a top-hat jet structure, we exclude at 90% credibility the presence of a jet that has at the same time an on-axis isotropic luminosity ≳10 ^48 erg s ^−1 in the bolometric band 1 keV–10 MeV and a jet opening angle ≳15°. Similar constraints are derived by testing other assumptions about the jet structure profile. Excluding GRB 170817A, the luminosity upper limits derived here are below the luminosity of any GRB observed so far.
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