Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226
Creators: name: Racusin, J. L.
name: Burns, E.
name: Goldstein, A.
name: Connaughton, V.
name: Wilson-Hodge, C. A.
name: Jenke, P.
name: Blackburn, L.
name: Briggs, M. S.
name: Broida, J.
name: Camp, J.
name: Christensen, N.
name: Hui, C. M.
name: Littenberg, T.
name: Shawhan, P.
name: Singer, L.
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name: Bhat, P. N.
name: Cleveland, W.
name: Fitzpatrick, G.
name: Gibby, M. H.
name: von Kienlin, A.
name: McBreen, S.
name: Mailyan, B.
name: Meegan, C. A.
name: Paciesas, W. S.
name: Preece, R. D.
name: Roberts, O. J.
name: Stanbro, M.
name: Veres, P.
name: Zhang, B. -B.
name: Ackermann, M.
name: Albert, A.
name: Atwood, W. B.
name: Axelsson, M.
name: Baldini, L.
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name: Bastieri, D.
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name: Digel, S. W.
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name: Johannesson, G.
name: Kamae, T.
name: Kensei, S.
name: Kocevski, D.
name: Kuss, M.
name: Larsson, S.
name: Latronico, L.
name: Li, J.
name: Longo, F.
name: Loparco, F.
name: Lubrano, P.
name: Magill, J. D.
name: Maldera, S.
name: Malyshev, D.
name: McEnery, J. E.
name: Michelson, P. F.
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name: Pesce-Rollins, M.
name: Piron, F.
name: Pivato, G.
name: Porter, T. A.
name: Principe, G.
name: Raino, S.
name: Rando, R.
name: Razzano, M.
name: Razzaque, S.
name: Reimer, A.
name: Reimer, O.
name: Parkinson, P. M. Saz
name: Scargle, J. D.
name: Sgro, C.
name: Simone, D.
name: Siskind, E. J.
name: Smith, D. A.
name: Spada, F.
name: Spinelli, P.
name: Suson, D. J.
name: Tajima, H.
name: Thayer, J. B.
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Troja, E.
name: Uchiyama, Y.
name: Vianello, G.
name: Wood, K. S.
name: Wood, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger event GW151226 and candi- date LVT151012. No candidate electromagnetic counterparts were detected by either the GBM or LAT. We present a detailed analysis of the GBM and LAT data over a range of timescales from seconds to years, using automated pipelines and new techniques for char- acterizing the upper limits across a large area of the sky. Due to the partial GBM and LAT coverage of the large LIGO localization regions at the trigger times for both events, dif- ferences in source distances and masses, as well as the uncertain degree to which emission from these sources could be beamed, these non-detections cannot be used to constrain the variety of theoretical models recently applied to explain the candidate GBM counterpart to GW150914.
description: 27 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, Submitted to ApJ