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SWIFT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF CANDIDATE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT EVENTS

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
dc.contributor MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
dc.contributor Fridriksson, Joel K.
dc.contributor Homan, Jeroen
dc.contributor Bodiya, Timothy Paul
dc.contributor Corbitt, Thomas R.
dc.contributor Donovan, Frederick J.
dc.contributor Dwyer, S.
dc.contributor Evans, Matthew J.
dc.contributor Foley, Stephany
dc.contributor Fritschel, Peter K.
dc.contributor Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
dc.contributor Kissel, Jeffrey S.
dc.contributor Kwee, Patrick
dc.contributor MacInnis, Myron E.
dc.contributor Mason, Kenneth R.
dc.contributor Matichard, Fabrice
dc.contributor Mavalvala, Nergis
dc.contributor McDaniel, P.
dc.contributor Mittleman, Richard K.
dc.contributor Oelker, Eric Glenn
dc.contributor Sankar, S.
dc.contributor Shapiro, B.
dc.contributor Shoemaker, David H.
dc.contributor Smith-Lefebvre, Nicolas D.
dc.contributor Vaulin, Ruslan
dc.contributor Waldman, Samuel J.
dc.contributor Weiss, Rainer
dc.contributor Wipf, Christopher Conrad
dc.contributor Zucker, Michael E.
dc.creator Fridriksson, Joel K.
dc.creator Homan, Jeroen
dc.creator Bodiya, Timothy Paul
dc.creator Corbitt, Thomas R.
dc.creator Donovan, Frederick J.
dc.creator Dwyer, S.
dc.creator Evans, Matthew J.
dc.creator Foley, Stephany
dc.creator Fritschel, Peter K.
dc.creator Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
dc.creator Kissel, Jeffrey S.
dc.creator Kwee, Patrick
dc.creator MacInnis, Myron E.
dc.creator Mason, Kenneth R.
dc.creator Matichard, Fabrice
dc.creator Mavalvala, Nergis
dc.creator McDaniel, P.
dc.creator Mittleman, Richard K.
dc.creator Oelker, Eric Glenn
dc.creator Sankar, S.
dc.creator Shapiro, B.
dc.creator Shoemaker, David H.
dc.creator Smith-Lefebvre, Nicolas D.
dc.creator Vaulin, Ruslan
dc.creator Waldman, Samuel J.
dc.creator Weiss, Rainer
dc.creator Wipf, Christopher Conrad
dc.creator Zucker, Michael E.
dc.date 2015-02-25T16:48:34Z
dc.date 2015-02-25T16:48:34Z
dc.date 2012-11
dc.date 2012-05
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:05:04Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:05:04Z
dc.identifier 0067-0049
dc.identifier 1538-4365
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95527
dc.identifier Evans, P. A., J. K. Fridriksson, N. Gehrels, J. Homan, J. P. Osborne, M. Siegel, A. Beardmore, et al. “SWIFT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF CANDIDATE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT EVENTS.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 203, no. 2 (November 21, 2012): 28. © 2012 The American Astronomical Society
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7387
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278684
dc.description We present the first multi-wavelength follow-up observations of two candidate gravitational-wave (GW) transient events recorded by LIGO and Virgo in their 2009-2010 science run. The events were selected with low latency by the network of GW detectors (within less than 10 minutes) and their candidate sky locations were observed by the Swift observatory (within 12 hr). Image transient detection was used to analyze the collected electromagnetic data, which were found to be consistent with background. Off-line analysis of the GW data alone has also established that the selected GW events show no evidence of an astrophysical origin; one of them is consistent with background and the other one was a test, part of a "blind injection challenge." With this work we demonstrate the feasibility of rapid follow-ups of GW transients and establish the sensitivity improvement joint electromagnetic and GW observations could bring. This is a first step toward an electromagnetic follow-up program in the regime of routine detections with the advanced GW instruments expected within this decade. In that regime, multi-wavelength observations will play a significant role in completing the astrophysical identification of GW sources. We present the methods and results from this first combined analysis and discuss its implications in terms of sensitivity for the present and future instruments.
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.)
dc.description United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
dc.description Carnegie Trust
dc.description David & Lucile Packard Foundation
dc.description Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher IOP Publishing
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/28
dc.relation The Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source American Astronomical Society
dc.title SWIFT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF CANDIDATE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT EVENTS
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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