GCN Circular 25326
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190814bv: Upper limits from Fermi-GBM Observations
Event
Date
2019-08-15T05:33:17Z (6 years ago)
From
Daniel Kocevski at GSFC <daniel.kocevski@nasa.gov>
D. Kocevski (NASA/MSFC) reports on behalf of the Fermi-GBM Team and the GBM-LIGO/Virgo group:
For the LIGO/Virgo detection of GW trigger S190814bv (GCN 25324) and using the Updated BAYESTAR skymap, Fermi-GBM was observing 100% of the localization probability at event time.
There was no Fermi-GBM onboard trigger immediately around the event time of S190814bv. The sky location of GRB 190814A (GCN 25319) that occurred ~1 hour before S190814bv is inconsistent with the updated skymap to high confidence. 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.
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 (in units of 10^-8 erg/s/cm^2):
Timescale soft norm hard
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0.128 s: 17.0 31.0 58.0
1.024 s: 5.90 9.30 20.0
8.192 s: 2.20 3.10 5.68
Assuming the median luminosity distance of 276 Mpc (z=0.061) from the GW detection, we estimate the following intrinsic luminosity upper limits over the 1 keV-10 MeV energy range (in units of 10^48 erg/s):
Timescale soft norm hard
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0.128 s: 2.35 3.98 12.25
1.024 s: 0.81 1.19 4.23
8.192 s: 0.30 0.40 1.18