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The Gravity Collective: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Electromagnetic Search for the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW190425
| العنوان: | The Gravity Collective: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Electromagnetic Search for the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW190425 |
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| المؤلفون: | Coulter, D. A., Kilpatrick, C. D., Jones, D. O., Foley, R. J., Filippenko, A. V., Zheng, W., Swift, J. J., Rahman, G. S., Stacey, H. E., Piro, A. L., Rojas-Bravo, C., Vilchez, J. Anais, Muñoz-Elgueta, N., Arcavi, I., Dimitriadis, G., Siebert, M. R., Bloom, J. S., Bustamante-Rosell, M. J., Clever, K. E., Davis, K. W., Kutcka, J., Macias, P., McGill, P., Quiñonez, P. J., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Siellez, K., Tinyanont, S., Cenko, S. B., Drout, M. R., Hausen, R., Jacobson-Galán, W. V., Howell, D. Andrew, Kasen, D., McCully, C., Rest, A., Taggart, K., Valenti, S. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| الوصف: | We present an ultraviolet-to-infrared search for the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart to GW190425, the second-ever binary neutron star (BNS) merger discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). GW190425 was more distant and had a larger localization area than GW170817, therefore we use a new tool teglon to redistribute the GW190425 localization probability in the context of galaxy catalogs within the final localization volume. We derive a 90th percentile area of 6,688 deg$^{2}$, a $\sim$1.5$\times$ improvement relative to the LIGO/Virgo map, and show how teglon provides an order of magnitude boost to the search efficiency of small ($\leq$1 deg$^{2}$) field-of-view instruments. We combine our data with all publicly reported imaging data, covering 9,078.59 deg$^2$ of unique area and 48.13% of the LIGO/Virgo-assigned localization probability, to calculate the most comprehensive kilonova, short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) afterglow, and model-independent constraints on the EM emission from a hypothetical counterpart to GW190425 to date under the assumption that no counterpart was found in these data. If the counterpart were similar to AT 2017gfo, there was a 28.4% chance that it would have been detected in the combined dataset. We are relatively insensitive to an on-axis sGRB, and rule out a generic transient with a similar peak luminosity and decline rate as AT 2017gfo to 30% confidence. Finally, across our new imaging and all publicly-reported data, we find 28 candidate optical counterparts that we cannot rule out as being associated with GW190425, finding that 4 such counterparts discovered within the localization volume and within 5 days of merger exhibit luminosities consistent with a kilonova. Comment: 41 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to ApJ |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15441 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2404.15441 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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