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arXiv:1602.03868 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 11 Feb 2016 (v1), last revised 21 Apr 2016 (this version, v4)]

Title:Swift follow-up of the Gravitational Wave source GW150914

Authors:P.A. Evans, J.A. Kennea, S.D. Barthelmy, A.P. Beardmore, D. N. Burrows, S. Campana, S.B. Cenko, N. Gehrels, P. Giommi, C. Gronwall, F. E. Marshall, D. Malesani, C.B. Markwardt, B. Mingo, J. A. Nousek, P. T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, C. Pagani, K.L. Page, D.M. Palmer, M. Perri, J. L. Racusin, M.H. Siegel, B.Sbarufatti, G. Tagliaferri
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Abstract:The Advanced LIGO observatory recently reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) which triggered ALIGO on 2015 September 14. We report on observations taken with the Swift satellite two days after the trigger. No new X-ray, optical, UV or hard X-ray sources were detected in our observations, which were focussed on nearby galaxies in the GW error region and covered 4.7 square degrees (~2% of the probability in the rapidly-available GW error region; 0.3% of the probability from the final GW error region, which was produced several months after the trigger). We describe the rapid Swift response and automated analysis of the X-ray telescope and UV/Optical Telescope data, and note the importance to electromagnetic follow up of early notification of the progenitor details inferred from GW analysis.
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; accepted by MNRAS Letters. Modified to improve the location and shape of the BAT field of view in Fig. 1
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Cite as: arXiv:1602.03868 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:1602.03868v4 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1602.03868
Journal reference: MNRAS, 460, L40 (2016)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw065

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From: Philip Evans [view email]
[v1] Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:28:52 UTC (1,023 KB)
[v2] Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:26:42 UTC (1,023 KB)
[v3] Mon, 4 Apr 2016 09:16:17 UTC (1,122 KB)
[v4] Thu, 21 Apr 2016 08:51:54 UTC (1,086 KB)
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