GCN Circular 27028
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S200208q: No counterpart candidates in Fermi-LAT observations
Date
2020-02-09T22:25:19Z (4 years ago)
From
Lorenzo Scotton at CNRS/IN2P3/LUPM <lorenzoscotton@live.it>
L. Scotton (CNRS/IN2P3/LUPM), D. Tak (Univ. of Maryland & NASA/GSFC),
M. Axelsson (KTH & Stockholm Univ), E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari),
D. Kocevski (NASA/MSFC), N. Omodei (Stanford Univ.) and F. Longo (University and INFN, Trieste)
report on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration:
We have searched data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) on
February 8, 2020, for possible high-energy (E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray emission in
spatial/temporal coincidence with the LIGO/Virgo trigger S200208q (GCN 27014).
We define "instantaneous coverage" as the integral over the region of the LIGO
probability map that is within the LAT field of view at a given time, and "cumulative
coverage" as the integral of the instantaneous coverage over time. Fermi-LAT had
an instantaneous coverage of ~47% of the LIGO probability at the time of the trigger
(T0 = 2020-02-08 13:01:17.991 UTC), and reached 100% cumulative coverage
after ~3.8 ks.
We performed a search for a transient counterpart within the observed region of
the 90% contour of LIGO map in a fixed time window from T0 to T0 + 10 ks.
No significant new sources are found.
Energy flux upper bounds for the fixed time interval between 100 MeV and 1 GeV
for this search vary between 1.3e-10 and 2.5e-09 [erg/cm^2/s].
The Fermi-LAT point of contact for this event is
Lorenzo Scotton (lorenzo.scotton@lupm.in2p3.fr<mailto:lorenzo.scotton@lupm.in2p3.fr>).
The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover
the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV.
It is the product of an international collaboration between
NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions
across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.