Searching for γ-ray Emission from Binary Black-Hole Mergers Detected in LIGO/Virgo O3 Run

Author:

Ren ChongyangORCID,Wang ZhongxiangORCID

Abstract

We conduct searches for γ-ray emission from the binary black-hole (BBH) mergers reported in the Gravitational-Wave Candidate Event Database (GraceDB). The γ-ray data are from the all-sky survey of the Large-Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), which allows searches for events of given time durations in large sky areas. The Two-Micron All-Sky Survey Photometric Redshift Catalog (2MPZ) is used for target selection, from which galaxy sources within the 90% credible areas and the distance ranges given by the gravitational-wave (GW) detections are determined. Excluding those BBH cases with large credible areas and/or dense fields (containing too many 2MPZ sources), searches for short transient events over the time duration of from −1 to 100 days of a trigger time for seven BBH mergers are conducted. We find two candidate short flaring events in the field of the GW event S200311bg and one in that of S190408an. However, the flaring events all have low significance (after considering the trial factor), and the third one appears off the position of the target galaxy. We discuss one of them from the first field that is detected in different short time-bin data and suggest that it is possibly a real flare arising from a radio galaxy. More such studies for the near-future GW detection run are planned, for which we will adjust our search strategy to be more effective and target flares of various time scales.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

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