Transient Astronomy: The Technology and the Techniques
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run
Date Submitted
2017-04-12 05:57:40
Francesco Pannarale
On behalf of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration
Cardiff University
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. They fall into two, broad categories: long-duration bursts, which last more than two seconds and are powered by the core collapse of rapidly rotating massive stars, and short-duration bursts, which last less than two seconds and for which binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers are the leading progenitor candidates. In both scenarios, gravitational waves are expected to accompany the gamma-ray burst, making these transient phenomena promising events for gravitational-wave follow-up. In this talk, I review the status of targeted searches for gravitational waves in association with gamma-ray bursts and present the results of these searches obtained during the first Advanced LIGO observing run, which was carried out between September 2015 and January 2016.
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13:30 - 15:00
14:15
Abstract
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run