GCN Circular 33818
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230518h: Upper limits from Fermi-GBM Observations
Date
2023-05-18T20:36:37Z (2 years ago)
From
Sarah Dalessi at UAH <sd0104@uah.edu>
S. Dalessi (UAH) and C. Fletcher (USRA) report on behalf of the
Fermi-GBM Team and the GBM-LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA group
For S230518h and using the updated Bilby skymap (GCN 33816), Fermi-GBM
was observing 48.9% of the localization probability at event time.
There was no Fermi-GBM onboard trigger around the event time of the
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) detection of GW trigger S230518h (GCN 33813).
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 LVK localization region is behind the Earth for Fermi,
located at an RA=32.3, Dec=-3.6 with a radius of 67.6 degrees. We
therefore set upper limits on impulsive gamma-ray emission for the LVK
Consortia localization region visible to Fermi at merger time. 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 GW localization probability (in units of
10^-7 erg/s/cm^2):
Timescale Soft Normal Hard
------------------------------------
0.128 s: 1.4 2.7 6.1
1.024 s: 0.4 0.8 2.0
8.192 s: 0.1 0.3 0.8
Assuming the median luminosity distance of 277.9 Mpc from the GW
detection, we estimate the following intrinsic luminosity upper limits
over the 1 keV-10 MeV energy range (in units of 10^50 erg/s):
Timescale Soft Normal Hard
------------------------------------
0.128s: 0.020 0.035 0.132
1.024s: 0.006 0.010 0.043
8.192s: 0.002 0.004 0.018