Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts

(2011)

Authors:

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, M Abernathy, T Accadia, F Acernese, C Adams, R Adhikari, C Affeldt, P Ajith, B Allen, GS Allen, E Amador Ceron, D Amariutei, RS Amin, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, K Arai, MA Arain, MC Araya, SM Aston, P Astone, D Atkinson, P Aufmuth, C Aulbert, BE Aylott, S Babak, P Baker, G Ballardin, S Ballmer, D Barker, F Barone, B Barr, P Barriga, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, MA Barton, I Bartos, R Bassiri, M Bastarrika, A Basti, J Batch, J Bauchrowitz, Th S Bauer, M Bebronne, B Behnke, MG Beker, AS Bell, A Belletoile, I Belopolski, M Benacquista, JM Berliner, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, N Beveridge, PT Beyersdorf, IA Bilenko, G Billingsley, J Birch, R Biswas, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, E Black, JK Blackburn, L Blackburn, D Blair, B Bland, M Blom, O Bock, TP Bodiya, C Bogan, R Bondarescu, F Bondu, L Bonelli, R Bonnand, R Bork, M Born, V Boschi, S Bose, L Bosi, B Bouhou, S Braccini, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, VB Braginsky, M Branchesi, JE Brau, J Breyer, T Briant, DO Bridges, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, M Britzger, AF Brooks, DA Brown, A Brummit, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, J Burguet--Castell, O Burmeister, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, L Cadonati, G Cagnoli, J Cain, E Calloni, JB Camp, P Campsie, J Cannizzo, K Cannon, B Canuel, J Cao, CD Capano, F Carbognani, S Caride, S Caudill, M Cavaglià, F Cavalier, R Cavalieri, G Cella, C Cepeda, E Cesarini, O Chaibi, T Chalermsongsak, E Chalkley, P Charlton, E Chassande-Mottin, S Chelkowski, Y Chen, A Chincarini, A Chiummo, H Cho, N Christensen, SSY Chua, CTY Chung, S Chung, G Ciani, F Clara, DE Clark, J Clark, JH Clayton, F Cleva, E Coccia, P-F Cohadon, CN Colacino, J Colas, A Colla, M Colombini, A Conte, R Conte, D Cook, TR Corbitt, M Cordier, N Cornish, A Corsi, CA Costa, M Coughlin, J-P Coulon, P Couvares, DM Coward, DC Coyne, JDE Creighton, TD Creighton, AM Cruise, A Cumming, L Cunningham, E Cuoco, RM Cutler, K Dahl, SL Danilishin, R Dannenberg, S D'Antonio, K Danzmann, V Dattilo, B Daudert, H Daveloza, M Davier, G Davies, EJ Daw, R Day, T Dayanga, R De Rosa, D DeBra, G Debreczeni, J Degallaix, W Del Pozzo, M del Prete, T Dent, V Dergachev, R DeRosa, R DeSalvo, V Dhillon, S Dhurandhar, L Di Fiore, A Di Lieto, I Di Palma, M Di Paolo Emilio, A Di Virgilio, M Díaz, A Dietz, F Donovan, KL Dooley, S Dorsher, M Drago, RWP Drever, JC Driggers, Z Du, J-C Dumas, S Dwyer, T Eberle, M Edgar, M Edwards, A Effler, P Ehrens, G Endrőczi, R Engel, T Etzel, K Evans, M Evans, T Evans, M Factourovich, V Fafone, S Fairhurst, Y Fan, BF Farr, W Farr, D Fazi, H Fehrmann, D Feldbaum, I Ferrante, F Fidecaro, LS Finn, I Fiori, RP Fisher, R Flaminio, M Flanigan, S Foley, E Forsi, LA Forte, N Fotopoulos, J-D Fournier, J Franc, S Frasca, F Frasconi, M Frede, M Frei, Z Frei, A Freise, R Frey, TT Fricke, JK Fridriksson, D Friedrich, P Fritschel, VV Frolov, PJ Fulda, M Fyffe, M Galimberti, L Gammaitoni, MR Ganija, J Garcia, JA Garofoli, F Garufi, ME Gáspár, G Gemme, R Geng, E Genin, A Gennai, LÁ Gergely, S Ghosh, JA Giaime, S Giampanis, KD Giardina, A Giazotto, C Gill, E Goetz, LM Goggin, G González, ML Gorodetsky, S Goßler, R Gouaty, C Graef, M Granata, A Grant, S Gras, C Gray, N Gray, RJS Greenhalgh, AM Gretarsson, C Greverie, R Grosso, H Grote, S Grunewald, GM Guidi, C Guido, R Gupta, EK Gustafson, R Gustafson, T Ha, B Hage, JM Hallam, D Hammer, G Hammond, J Hanks, C Hanna, J Hanson, J Harms, GM Harry, IW Harry, ED Harstad, MT Hartman, K Haughian, K Hayama, J-F Hayau, T Hayler, J Heefner, A Heidmann, MC Heintze, H Heitmann, P Hello, MA Hendry, IS Heng, AW Heptonstall, V Herrera, M Hewitson, S Hild, D Hoak, KA Hodge, K Holt, J Homan, T Hong, S Hooper, DJ Hosken, J Hough, EJ Howell, B Hughey, S Husa, SH Huttner, T Huynh-Dinh, DR Ingram, R Inta, T Isogai, A Ivanov, K Izumi, M Jacobson, H Jang, P Jaranowski, WW Johnson, DI Jones, G Jones, R Jones, L Ju, P Kalmus, V Kalogera, I Kamaretsos, S Kandhasamy, G Kang, JB Kanner, E Katsavounidis, W Katzman, H Kaufer, K Kawabe, S Kawamura, F Kawazoe, W Kells, DG Keppel, Z Keresztes, A Khalaidovski, FY Khalili, EA Khazanov, B Kim, C Kim, D Kim, H Kim, K Kim, N Kim, Y-M Kim, PJ King, M Kinsey, DL Kinzel, JS Kissel, S Klimenko, K Kokeyama, V Kondrashov, R Kopparapu, S Koranda, WZ Korth, I Kowalska, D Kozak, V Kringel, S Krishnamurthy, B Krishnan, A Królak, G Kuehn, R Kumar, P Kwee, M Laas-Bourez, PK Lam, M Landry, M Lang, B Lantz, N Lastzka, C Lawrie, A Lazzarini, P Leaci, CH Lee, HM Lee, N Leindecker, JR Leong, I Leonor, N Leroy, N Letendre, J Li, TGF Li, N Liguori, PE Lindquist, NA Lockerbie, D Lodhia, M Lorenzini, V Loriette, M Lormand, G Losurdo, J Luan, M Lubinski, H Lück, AP Lundgren, E Macdonald, B Machenschalk, M MacInnis, DM Macleod, M Mageswaran, K Mailand, E Majorana, I Maksimovic, N Man, I Mandel, V Mandic, M Mantovani, A Marandi, F Marchesoni, F Marion, S Márka, Z Márka, A Markosyan, E Maros, J Marque, F Martelli, IW Martin, RM Martin, JN Marx, K Mason, A Masserot, F Matichard, L Matone, RA Matzner, N Mavalvala, G Mazzolo, R McCarthy, DE McClelland, P McDaniel, SC McGuire, G McIntyre, DJA McKechan, GD Meadors, M Mehmet, T Meier, A Melatos, AC Melissinos, G Mendell, D Menendez, RA Mercer, L Merill, S Meshkov, C Messenger, MS Meyer, H Miao, C Michel, L Milano, J Miller, Y Minenkov, VP Mitrofanov, G Mitselmakher, R Mittleman, O Miyakawa, B Moe, P Moesta, M Mohan, SD Mohanty, SRP Mohapatra, D Moraru, G Moreno, N Morgado, A Morgia, T Mori, S Mosca, K Mossavi, B Mours, CM Mow--Lowry, CL Mueller, G Mueller, S Mukherjee, A Mullavey, H Müller-Ebhardt, J Munch, PG Murray, A Mytidis, T Nash, L Naticchioni, R Nawrodt, V Necula, J Nelson, G Newton, E Nishida, A Nishizawa, F Nocera, D Nolting, L Nuttall, E Ochsner, J O'Dell, E Oelker, GH Ogin, JJ Oh, SH Oh, RG Oldenburg, B O'Reilly, R O'Shaughnessy, C Osthelder, CD Ott, DJ Ottaway, RS Ottens, H Overmier, BJ Owen, A Page, G Pagliaroli, L Palladino, C Palomba, Y Pan, C Pankow, F Paoletti, MA Papa, M Parisi, A Pasqualetti, R Passaquieti, D Passuello, P Patel, D Pathak, M Pedraza, P Peiris, L Pekowsky, S Penn, C Peralta, A Perreca, G Persichetti, M Phelps, M Pickenpack, F Piergiovanni, M Pietka, L Pinard, IM Pinto, M Pitkin, HJ Pletsch, MV Plissi, R Poggiani, J Pöld, F Postiglione, M Prato, V Predoi, LR Price, M Prijatelj, M Principe, S Privitera, R Prix, GA Prodi, L Prokhorov, O Puncken, M Punturo, P Puppo, V Quetschke, FJ Raab, DS Rabeling, I Rácz, H Radkins, P Raffai, M Rakhmanov, CR Ramet, B Rankins, P Rapagnani, S Rapoport, V Raymond, V Re, K Redwine, CM Reed, T Reed, T Regimbau, S Reid, DH Reitze, F Ricci, R Riesen, K Riles, NA Robertson, F Robinet, C Robinson, EL Robinson, A Rocchi, S Roddy, C Rodriguez, M Rodruck, L Rolland, J Rollins, JD Romano, R Romano, JH Romie, D Rosińska, C Röver, S Rowan, A Rüdiger, P Ruggi, K Ryan, H Ryll, P Sainathan, M Sakosky, F Salemi, L Sammut, L Sancho de la Jordana, V Sandberg, S Sankar, V Sannibale, L Santamaría, I Santiago-Prieto, G Santostasi, B Sassolas, BS Sathyaprakash, S Sato, M Satterthwaite, PR Saulson, RL Savage, R Schilling, S Schlamminger, R Schnabel, RMS Schofield, B Schulz, BF Schutz, P Schwinberg, J Scott, SM Scott, AC Searle, F Seifert, D Sellers, AS Sengupta, D Sentenac, A Sergeev, DA Shaddock, M Shaltev, B Shapiro, P Shawhan, DH Shoemaker, A Sibley, X Siemens, D Sigg, A Singer, L Singer, AM Sintes, G Skelton, BJJ Slagmolen, J Slutsky, JR Smith, MR Smith, ND Smith, RJE Smith, K Somiya, B Sorazu, J Soto, FC Speirits, L Sperandio, M Stefszky, AJ Stein, E Steinert, J Steinlechner, S Steinlechner, S Steplewski, A Stochino, R Stone, KA Strain, S Strigin, AS Stroeer, R Sturani, AL Stuver, TZ Summerscales, M Sung, S Susmithan, PJ Sutton, B Swinkels, M Tacca, L Taffarello, D Talukder, DB Tanner, SP Tarabrin, JR Taylor, R Taylor, P Thomas, KA Thorne, KS Thorne, E Thrane, A Thüring, C Titsler, KV Tokmakov, A Toncelli, M Tonelli, O Torre, C Torres, CI Torrie, E Tournefier, F Travasso, G Traylor, M Trias, K Tseng, L Turner, D Ugolini, K Urbanek, H Vahlbruch, G Vajente, M Vallisneri, JFJ van den Brand, C Van Den Broeck, S van der Putten, AA van Veggel, S Vass, M Vasuth, R Vaulin, M Vavoulidis, A Vecchio, G Vedovato, J Veitch, PJ Veitch, C Veltkamp, D Verkindt, F Vetrano, A Viceré, AE Villar, J-Y Vinet, S Vitale, S Vitale, H Vocca, C Vorvick, SP Vyatchanin, A Wade, SJ Waldman, L Wallace, Y Wan, X Wang, Z Wang, A Wanner, RL Ward, M Was, P Wei, M Weinert, AJ We, R Weiss, L Wen, S Wen, P Wessels, M West, T Westphal, K Wette, JT Whelan, SE Whitcomb, D White, BF Whiting, C Wilkinson, PA Willems, HR Williams, L Williams, B Willke, L Winkelmann, W Winkler, CC Wipf, AG Wiseman, H Wittel, G Woan, R Wooley, J Worden, J Yablon, I Yakushin, H Yamamoto, K Yamamoto, H Yang, D Yeaton-Massey, S Yoshida, P Yu, M Yvert, A Zadroźny, M Zanolin, J-P Zendri, F Zhang, L Zhang, W Zhang, Z Zhang, C Zhao, N Zotov, ME Zucker, J Zweizig, C Akerlof, M Boer, R Fender, N Gehrels, A Klotz, EO Ofek, M Smith, M Sokolowski, BW Stappers, I Steele, J Swinbank, RAMJ Wijers, W Zheng

Modeling of the HERMES submillimeter source lensed by a dark matter dominated foreground group of galaxies

Astrophysical Journal 738:2 (2011)

Authors:

R Gavazzi, A Cooray, A Conley, JE Aguirre, A Amblard, R Auld, A Beelen, A Blain, R Blundell, J Bock, CM Bradford, C Bridge, D Brisbin, D Burgarella, P Chanial, E Chapin, N Christopher, DL Clements, P Cox, SG Djorgovski, CD Dowell, S Eales, L Earle, TP Ellsworth-Bowers, D Farrah, A Franceschini, H Fu, J Glenn, EA González Solares, M Griffin, MA Gurwell, M Halpern, E Ibar, RJ Ivison, M Jarvis, J Kamenetzky, S Kim, M Krips, L Levenson, R Lupu, A Mahabal, PD Maloney, C Maraston, L Marchetti, G Marsden, H Matsuhara, AMJ Mortier, E Murphy, BJ Naylor, R Neri, HT Nguyen, SJ Oliver, A Omont, MJ Page, A Papageorgiou, CP Pearson, I Pérez-Fournon, M Pohlen, N Rangwala, JI Rawlings, G Raymond, D Riechers, G Rodighiero, IG Roseboom, M Rowan-Robinson, B Schulz, D Scott, KS Scott, P Serra, N Seymour, DL Shupe, AJ Smith, M Symeonidis, KE Tugwell, M Vaccari, E Valiante, I Valtchanov, A Verma, JD Vieira, L Vigroux, L Wang, J Wardlow, D Wiebe, G Wright, CK Xu, G Zeimann, M Zemcov, J Zmuidzinas

Abstract:

We present the results of a gravitational lensing analysis of the bright z s = 2.957 submillimeter galaxy (SMG) HERMES found in the Herschel/SPIRE science demonstration phase data from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) project. The high-resolution imaging available in optical and near-IR channels, along with CO emission obtained with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer, allows us to precisely estimate the intrinsic source extension and hence estimate the total lensing magnification to be μ = 10.9 ± 0.7. We measure the half-light radius R eff of the source in the rest-frame near-UV and V bands that characterize the unobscured light coming from stars and find R eff, * = [2.0 ± 0.1] kpc, in good agreement with recent studies on the SMG population. This lens model is also used to estimate the size of the gas distribution (Reff, gas = [1.1 ± 0.5] kpc) by mapping back in the source plane the CO (J = 5 → 4) transition line emission. The lens modeling yields a relatively large Einstein radius R Ein = 4.″10 ± 0″.02, corresponding to a deflector velocity dispersion of [483 ± 16] km s -1. This shows that HERMES is lensed by a galaxy group-size dark matter halo at redshift z l ∼ 0.6. The projected dark matter contribution largely dominates the mass budget within the Einstein radius with f dm(< R Ein) ∼ 80%. This fraction reduces to f dm(< R eff, G1 ≃ 4.5 kpc) ∼ 47% within the effective radius of the main deflecting galaxy of stellar mass M *, G1 = [8.5 ± 1.6] × 1011 M ⊙. At this smaller scale the dark matter fraction is consistent with results already found for massive lensing ellipticals at z ∼ 0.2 from the Sloan Lens ACS Survey. © 2011. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Radio transients: An antediluvian review

Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India 39:3 (2011) 315-332

Authors:

RP Fender, ME Belly

Abstract:

We are at the dawn of a new golden age for radio astronomy, with a new generation of facilities under construction and the global community focused on the Square Kilometre Array as its goal for the next decade. These new facilities offer orders of magnitude improvements in survey speed compared to existing radio telescopes and arrays. Furthermore, the study of transient and variable radio sources, and what they can tell us about the extremes of astrophysics as well as the state of the diffuse intervening media, have been embraced as key science projects for these new facilities. In this paper we review the studies of the populations of radio transients made to date, largely based upon archival surveys. Many of these radio transients and variables have been found in the image plane, and their astrophysical origin remains unclear. We take this population and combine it with sensitivity estimates for the next generation arrays to demonstrate that in the coming decade we may find ourselves detecting 105 image plane radio transients per year, providing a vast and rich field of research and an almost limitless set of targets for multi-wavelength follow up.

Herschel-ATLAS: counterparts from the ultraviolet-near-infrared in the science demonstration phase catalogue

\mnras 416 (2011) 857-872-857-872

Authors:

DJB Smith, L Dunne, SJ Maddox, S Eales, DG Bonfield, MJ Jarvis, W Sutherland, S Fleuren, EE Rigby, MA Thompson, IK Baldry, S Bamford, S Buttiglione, A Cava, DL Clements, A Cooray, S Croom, A Dariush, G de Zotti, SP Driver, JS Dunlop, J Fritz, DT Hill, A Hopkins, R Hopwood, E Ibar, RJ Ivison, DH Jones, L Kelvin, L Leeuw, J Liske, J Loveday, BF Madore, P Norberg, P Panuzzo, E Pascale, M Pohlen, CC Popescu, M Prescott, A Robotham, G Rodighiero, D Scott, M Seibert, R Sharp, P Temi, RJ Tuffs, P van der Werf, E van Kampen

Herschel-ATLAS: the link between accretion luminosity and star formation in quasar host galaxies

\mnras 416 (2011) 13-21-13-21

Authors:

DG Bonfield, MJ Jarvis, MJ Hardcastle, A Cooray, E Hatziminaoglou, RJ Ivison, MJ Page, JA Stevens, G de Zotti, R Auld, M Baes, S Buttiglione, A Cava, A Dariush, JS Dunlop, L Dunne, S Dye, S Eales, J Fritz, R Hopwood, E Ibar, SJ Maddox, MJ Micha lowski, E Pascale, M Pohlen, EE Rigby, G Rodighiero, S Serjeant, DJB Smith, P Temi, P van der Werf