GCN Circular 25026
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190707q: Upper limits from Fermi-GBM Observations
Date
2019-07-07T21:42:02Z (5 years ago)
From
Adam Goldstein at Fermi-GBM, USRA <adam.michael.goldstein@gmail.com>
A. Goldstein (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi-GBM Team and the
GBM-LIGO/Virgo group:
For the LIGO/Virgo detection of GW trigger S190707q (GCN 25012) and using
the initial BAYESTAR skymap, Fermi-GBM was observing 46.3% of the
localization probability at event time.
There was no Fermi-GBM onboard trigger around the event time of S190707q.
An automated, blind search for short gamma-ray bursts below the onboard
triggering threshold in Fermi-GBM also identified no counterpart
candidates. The GBM targeted search, the most sensitive, coherent search
for GRB-like signals, was run from +/- 30 s around merger time, and also
identified no counterpart candidates.
Part of the LVC localization region is behind the Earth for Fermi, located
at RA = 171.8 and Dec = -21.4 with a radius of 67.4 degrees. We therefore
set upper limits on impulsive gamma-ray emission. Using the representative
soft, normal, and hard GRB-like templates described in arXiv:1612.02395, we
set the following 3 sigma flux upper limits over 10-1000 keV, weighted by
the GW localization probability, (in units of 10^-7 erg/s/cm^2):
Timescale soft norm hard
--------------------------------------
0.128 s: 2.5 4.0 8.9
1.024 s: 0.8 1.2 2.2
8.192 s: 0.4 0.4 0.8
Assuming the median luminosity distance of 809.8 Mpc (z=0.167) from the GW
detection, we estimate the following intrinsic luminosity upper limits over
the 1 keV-10 MeV energy range (in units of 10^49 erg/s):
Timescale soft norm hard
--------------------------------------
0.128 s: 3.0 4.4 16.
1.024 s: 1.0 1.3 4.0
8.192 s: 0.5 0.5 1.5