C. Fletcher, Huntsville Program Office
J. Wood, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
R. Hamburg, Department of Space Science
P. Veres, Department of Space Science
C. M. Hui, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
E. Bissaldi, Politecnico di Bari
M. S. Briggs, Department of Space Science
E. Burns, Louisiana State University
W. H. Cleveland, Huntsville Program Office
M. M. Giles, Jacobs Space Exploration Group
A. Goldstein, Huntsville Program Office
B. A. Hristov, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
D. Kocevski, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
S. Lesage, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
B. Mailyan, College of Engineering and Science
C. Malacaria, International Space Science Institute
S. Poolakkil, Department of Space Science
A. von Kienlin, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
C. A. Wilson-Hodge, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
M. Crnogorčević, College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
J. DeLaunay, Department of Physics and Astronomy
A. Tohuvavohu, University of Toronto
R. Caputo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
S. B. Cenko, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
S. Laha, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
T. Parsotan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
R. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
H. Abe, Institute of Science Tokyo
F. Acernese, Università degli Studi di Salerno
K. Ackley, Monash University
N. Adhikari, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
R. X. Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
V. K. Adkins, Louisiana State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2024

Abstract

We present Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT) searches for gamma-ray/X-ray counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) candidate events identified during the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. Using Fermi-GBM onboard triggers and subthreshold gamma-ray burst (GRB) candidates found in the Fermi-GBM ground analyses, the Targeted Search and the Untargeted Search, we investigate whether there are any coincident GRBs associated with the GWs. We also search the Swift-BAT rate data around the GW times to determine whether a GRB counterpart is present. No counterparts are found. Using both the Fermi-GBM Targeted Search and the Swift- BAT search, we calculate flux upper limits and present joint upper limits on the gamma-ray luminosity of each GW. Given these limits, we constrain theoretical models for the emission of gamma rays from binary black hole mergers.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Astrophysical Journal

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