Tuesday, March 12, 2013

1303.2174 (Lindy Blackburn et al.)

Techniques for targeted Fermi-GBM follow-up of gravitational-wave events    [PDF]

Lindy Blackburn, Michael S. Briggs, Jordan Camp, Nelson Christensen, Valerie Connaughton, Peter Jenke, John Veitch
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are projected to come online 2015-2016, reaching a final sensitivity sufficient to observe dozens of binary neutron star mergers per year by 2018. We present a fully-automated, targeted search strategy for prompt gamma-ray counterparts in offline Fermi-GBM data. The multi-detector method makes use of a detailed model response of the instrument, and benefits from time and sky location information derived from the gravitational-wave signal.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2174

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