Search for Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 886:1 (2019) 75

Authors:

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, G Allen, A Allocca, MA Aloy, PA Altin, A Amato, S Anand, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, S Antier, S Appert, K Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arène, N Arnaud, SM Aronson, S Ascenzi, G Ashton, SM Aston, P Astone, F Aubin, P Aufmuth, K AultONeal, C Austin, V Avendano, A Avila-Alvarez, S Babak, P Bacon, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, J Baird, PT Baker, F Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, A Bals, S Banagiri, JC Barayoga, C Barbieri, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, K Barkett, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, M Bazzan, B Bécsy, M Bejger, I Belahcene, AS Bell, D Beniwal, MG Benjamin, BK Berger, G Bergmann, S Bernuzzi, CPL Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, J Bidler, E Biggs, IA Bilenko, SA Bilgili, G Billingsley, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, M Bischi, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, J Blackman, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, F Bobba, N Bode, M Boer, Y Boetzel, G Bogaert, F Bondu, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, V Bossilkov, J Bosveld, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, A Bramley, M Branchesi, JE Brau, M Breschi, T Briant, JH Briggs, F Brighenti, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, P Brockill, AF Brooks, J Brooks, DD Brown, S Brunett, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, M Cabero, L Cadonati, G Cagnoli, C Cahillane, J Calderón Bustillo, TA Callister, E Calloni, JB Camp, WA Campbell, M Canepa, KC Cannon, H Cao, J Cao, G Carapella, F Carbognani, S Caride, MF Carney, G Carullo, J Casanueva Diaz, C Casentini, S Caudill, M Cavaglià, F Cavalier, R Cavalieri, G Cella, P Cerdá-Durán, E Cesarini, O Chaibi, K Chakravarti, SJ Chamberlin, M Chan, S Chao, P Charlton, EA Chase, E Chassande-Mottin, D Chatterjee, M Chaturvedi, BD Cheeseboro, HY Chen, X Chen, Y Chen, H-P Cheng, CK Cheong, HY Chia, F Chiadini, A Chincarini, A Chiummo, G Cho, HS Cho, M Cho, N Christensen, Q Chu, S Chua, KW Chung, S Chung, G Ciani, M Cieślar, AA Ciobanu, R Ciolfi, F Cipriano, A Cirone, F Clara, JA Clark, P Clearwater, F Cleva, E Coccia, P-F Cohadon, D Cohen, M Colleoni, CG Collette, C Collins, M Colpi, LR Cominsky, M Constancio, L Conti, SJ Cooper, P Corban, TR Corbitt, I Cordero-Carrión, S Corezzi, KR Corley, N Cornish, D Corre, A Corsi, S Cortese, CA Costa, R Cotesta, MW Coughlin, SB Coughlin, J-P Coulon, ST Countryman, P Couvares, PB Covas, EE Cowan, DM Coward, MJ Cowart, DC Coyne, R Coyne, JDE Creighton, TD Creighton, J Cripe, M Croquette, SG Crowder, TJ Cullen, A Cumming, L Cunningham, E Cuoco, T Dal Canton, G Dálya, B D’Angelo, SL Danilishin, S D’Antonio, K Danzmann, A Dasgupta, CF Da Silva Costa, LEH Datrier, V Dattilo, I Dave, M Davier, D Davis, EJ Daw, D DeBra, M Deenadayalan, J Degallaix, M De Laurentis, S Deléglise, W Del Pozzo, LM DeMarchi, N Demos, T Dent, R De Pietri, R De Rosa, C De Rossi, R DeSalvo, O de Varona, S Dhurandhar, MC Díaz, T Dietrich, L Di Fiore, C DiFronzo, C Di Giorgio, F Di Giovanni, M Di Giovanni, T Di Girolamo, A Di Lieto, B Ding, S Di Pace, I Di Palma, F Di Renzo, AK Divakarla, A Dmitriev, Z Doctor, F Donovan, KL Dooley, S Doravari, I Dorrington, TP Downes, M Drago, JC Driggers, Z Du, J-G Ducoin, P Dupej, O Durante, SE Dwyer, PJ Easter, G Eddolls, TB Edo, A Effler, P Ehrens, J Eichholz, SS Eikenberry, M Eisenmann, RA Eisenstein, L Errico, RC Essick, H Estelles, D Estevez, ZB Etienne, T Etzel, M Evans, TM Evans, V Fafone, S Fairhurst, X Fan, S Farinon, B Farr, WM Farr, EJ Fauchon-Jones, M Favata, M Fays, M Fazio, C Fee, J Feicht, MM Fejer, F Feng, A Fernandez-Galiana, I Ferrante, EC Ferreira, TA Ferreira, F Fidecaro, I Fiori, D Fiorucci, M Fishbach, RP Fisher, JM Fishner, R Fittipaldi, M Fitz-Axen, V Fiumara, R Flaminio, M Fletcher, E Floden, E Flynn, H Fong, JA Font, PWF Forsyth, J-D Fournier, Francisco Hernandez Vivanco, S Frasca, F Frasconi, Z Frei, A Freise, R Frey, V Frey, P Fritschel, VV Frolov, G Fronzè, P Fulda, M Fyffe, HA Gabbard, BU Gadre, SM Gaebel, JR Gair, L Gammaitoni, SG Gaonkar, C García-Quirós, F Garufi, B Gateley, S Gaudio, G Gaur, V Gayathri, G Gemme, E Genin, A Gennai, D George, J George, L Gergely, S Ghonge, Abhirup Ghosh, Archisman Ghosh, S Ghosh, B Giacomazzo, JA Giaime, KD Giardina, DR Gibson, K Gill, L Glover, J Gniesmer, P Godwin, E Goetz, R Goetz, B Goncharov, G González, JM Gonzalez Castro, A Gopakumar, SE Gossan, M Gosselin, R Gouaty, B Grace, A Grado, M Granata, A Grant, S Gras, P Grassia, C Gray, R Gray, G Greco, AC Green, R Green, EM Gretarsson, A Grimaldi, SJ Grimm, P Groot, H Grote, S Grunewald, P Gruning, GM Guidi, HK Gulati, Y Guo, A Gupta, Anchal Gupta, P Gupta, EK Gustafson, R Gustafson, L Haegel, O Halim, BR Hall, ED Hall, EZ Hamilton, G Hammond, M Haney, MM Hanke, J Hanks, C Hanna, MD Hannam, OA Hannuksela, TJ Hansen, J Hanson, T Harder, T Hardwick, K Haris, J Harms, GM Harry, IW Harry, RK Hasskew, CJ Haster, K Haughian, FJ Hayes, J Healy, A Heidmann, MC Heintze, H Heitmann, F Hellman, P Hello, G Hemming, M Hendry, IS Heng, J Hennig, M Heurs, S Hild, T Hinderer, S Hochheim, D Hofman, AM Holgado, NA Holland, K Holt, DE Holz, P Hopkins, C Horst, J Hough, EJ Howell, CG Hoy, Y Huang, MT Hübner, EA Huerta, D Huet, B Hughey, V Hui, S Husa, SH Huttner, T Huynh-Dinh, B Idzkowski, A Iess, H Inchauspe, C Ingram, R Inta, G Intini, B Irwin, HN Isa, J-M Isac, M Isi, BR Iyer, T Jacqmin, SJ Jadhav, K Jani, NN Janthalur, P Jaranowski, D Jariwala, AC Jenkins, J Jiang, DS Johnson, AW Jones, DI Jones, JD Jones, R Jones, RJG Jonker, L Ju, J Junker, CV Kalaghatgi, V Kalogera, B Kamai, S Kandhasamy, G Kang, JB Kanner, SJ Kapadia, S Karki, R Kashyap, M Kasprzack, S Katsanevas, E Katsavounidis, W Katzman, S Kaufer, K Kawabe, NV Keerthana, F Kéfélian, D Keitel, R Kennedy, JS Key, FY Khalili, I Khan, S Khan, EA Khazanov, N Khetan, M Khursheed, N Kijbunchoo, Chunglee Kim, JC Kim, K Kim, W Kim, WS Kim, Y-M Kim, C Kimball, PJ King, M Kinley-Hanlon, R Kirchhoff, JS Kissel, L Kleybolte, JH Klika, S Klimenko, TD Knowles, P Koch, SM Koehlenbeck, G Koekoek, S Koley, V Kondrashov, A Kontos, N Koper, M Korobko, WZ Korth, M Kovalam, DB Kozak, C Krämer, V Kringel, N Krishnendu, A Królak, N Krupinski, G Kuehn, A Kumar, P Kumar, Rahul Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, L Kuo, A Kutynia, S Kwang, BD Lackey, D Laghi, KH Lai, TL Lam, M Landry, BB Lane, RN Lang, J Lange, B Lantz, RK Lanza, A Lartaux-Vollard, PD Lasky, M Laxen, A Lazzarini, C Lazzaro, P Leaci, S Leavey, YK Lecoeuche, CH Lee, HK Lee, HM Lee, HW Lee, J Lee, K Lee, J Lehmann, AK Lenon, N Leroy, N Letendre, Y Levin, A Li, J Li, KJL Li, TGF Li, X Li, F Lin, F Linde, SD Linker, TB Littenberg, J Liu, X Liu, M Llorens-Monteagudo, RKL Lo, LT London, A Longo, M Lorenzini, V Loriette, M Lormand, G Losurdo, JD Lough, CO Lousto, G Lovelace, ME Lower, H Lück, D Lumaca, AP Lundgren, R Lynch, Y Ma, R Macas, S Macfoy, M MacInnis, DM Macleod, A Macquet, I Magaña Hernandez, F Magaña-Sandoval, RM Magee, E Majorana, I Maksimovic, A Malik, N Man, V Mandic, V Mangano, GL Mansell, M Manske, M Mantovani, M Mapelli, F Marchesoni, F Marion, S Márka, Z Márka, C Markakis, AS Markosyan, A Markowitz, E Maros, A Marquina, S Marsat, F Martelli, IW Martin, RM Martin, V Martinez, DV Martynov, H Masalehdan, K Mason, E Massera, A Masserot, TJ Massinger, M Masso-Reid, S Mastrogiovanni, A Matas, F Matichard, L Matone, N Mavalvala, JJ McCann, R McCarthy, DE McClelland, S McCormick, L McCuller, SC McGuire, C McIsaac, J McIver, DJ McManus, T McRae, ST McWilliams, D Meacher, GD Meadors, M Mehmet, AK Mehta, J Meidam, E Mejuto Villa, A Melatos, G Mendell, RA Mercer, L Mereni, K Merfeld, EL Merilh, M Merzougui, S Meshkov, C Messenger, C Messick, F Messina, R Metzdorff, PM Meyers, F Meylahn, A Miani, H Miao, C Michel, H Middleton, L 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Riemenschneider, K Riles, M Rizzo, NA Robertson, F Robinet, A Rocchi, L Rolland, JG Rollins, VJ Roma, M Romanelli, R Romano, CL Romel, JH Romie, CA Rose, D Rose, K Rose, D Rosińska, SG Rosofsky, MP Ross, S Rowan, A Rüdiger, P Ruggi, G Rutins, K Ryan, S Sachdev, T Sadecki, M Sakellariadou, OS Salafia, L Salconi, M Saleem, A Samajdar, L Sammut, EJ Sanchez, LE Sanchez, N Sanchis-Gual, JR Sanders, KA Santiago, E Santos, N Sarin, B Sassolas, BS Sathyaprakash, O Sauter, RL Savage, P Schale, M Scheel, J Scheuer, P Schmidt, R Schnabel, RMS Schofield, A Schönbeck, E Schreiber, BW Schulte, BF Schutz, J Scott, SM Scott, E Seidel, D Sellers, AS Sengupta, N Sennett, D Sentenac, V Sequino, A Sergeev, Y Setyawati, DA Shaddock, T Shaffer, MS Shahriar, MB Shaner, A Sharma, P Sharma, P Shawhan, H Shen, R Shink, DH Shoemaker, DM Shoemaker, K Shukla, S ShyamSundar, K Siellez, M Sieniawska, D Sigg, LP Singer, D Singh, N Singh, A Singhal, AM Sintes, S Sitmukhambetov, V Skliris, BJJ Slagmolen, TJ 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van Beuzekom, JFJ van den Brand, C Van Den Broeck, DC Vander-Hyde, L van der Schaaf, JV VanHeijningen, AA van Veggel, M Vardaro, V Varma, S Vass, M Vasúth, A Vecchio, G Vedovato, J Veitch, PJ Veitch, K Venkateswara, G Venugopalan, D Verkindt, F Vetrano, A Viceré, AD Viets, S Vinciguerra, DJ Vine, J-Y Vinet, S Vitale, T Vo, H Vocca, C Vorvick, SP Vyatchanin, AR Wade, LE Wade, M Wade, R Walet, M Walker, L Wallace, S Walsh, H Wang, JZ Wang, S Wang, WH Wang, YF Wang, RL Ward, ZA Warden, J Warner, M Was, J Watchi, B Weaver, L-W Wei, M Weinert, AJ Weinstein, R Weiss, F Wellmann, L Wen, EK Wessel, P Weßels, JW Westhouse, K Wette, JT Whelan, BF Whiting, C Whittle, DM Wilken, D Williams, AR Williamson, JL Willis, B Willke, W Winkler, CC Wipf, H Wittel, G Woan, J Woehler, JK Wofford, JL Wright, DS Wu, DM Wysocki, S Xiao, R Xu, H Yamamoto, CC Yancey, L Yang, Y Yang, Z Yang, MJ Yap, M Yazback, DW Yeeles, Hang Yu, Haocun Yu, SHR Yuen, AK Zadrożny, A Zadrożny, M Zanolin, T Zelenova, J-P Zendri, M Zevin, J Zhang, L Zhang, T Zhang, C Zhao, G Zhao, M Zhou, Z Zhou, XJ Zhu, ME Zucker, J Zweizig, RL Aptekar, WV Boynton, DD Frederiks, SV Golenetskii, DV Golovin, K Hurley, AV Kozlova, ML Litvak, IG Mitrofanov, AB Sanin, DS Svinkin, Francesco Carotenuto, Badri Krishnan

MKT J170456.2-482100: the first transient discovered by MeerKAT

(2019)

Authors:

LN Driessen, I McDonald, DAH Buckley, M Caleb, EJ Kotze, SB Potter, KM Rajwade, A Rowlinson, BW Stappers, E Tremou, PA Woudt, RP Fender, R Armstrong, P Groot, I Heywood, A Horesh, AJ van der Horst, E Koerding, VA McBride, JCA Miller-Jones, KP Mooley, RAMJ Wijers

Physical constraints from near-infrared fast photometry of the black-hole transient GX 339-4

(2019)

Authors:

FM Vincentelli, P Casella, P Petrucci, T Maccarone, D Russell, P Uttley, B De Marco, R Fender, P Gandhi, J Malzac, K O'Brien, J Tomsick

Spectrophotometric templates for core-collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 489:4 (2019) 5802-5821

Authors:

M Vincenzi, M Sullivan, RE Firth, CP Gutiérrez, C Frohmaier, M Smith, C Angus, RC Nichol

An ASKAP survey for H I absorption towards dust-obscured quasars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 489:4 (2019) 4926-4943

Authors:

M Glowacki, JR Allison, VA Moss, EK Mahony, EM Sadler, JR Callingham, SL Ellison, MT Whiting, JD Bunton, AP Chippendale, Ian Heywood, D McConnell, W Raja, MA Voronkov

Abstract:

Obscuration of quasars by accreted gas and dust, or dusty intervening galaxies, can cause active galactic nuclei (AGN) to be missed in optically selected surveys. Radio observations can overcome this dust bias. In particular, radio surveys searching for H I absorption inform us on how the AGN can impact on the cold neutral gas medium within the host galaxy, or the population of intervening galaxies through the observed line of sight gas kinematics. We present the results of an H I absorption line survey at 0.4 < z < 1 towards 34 obscured quasars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) commissioning array. We detect three H I absorption lines, with one of these systems previously unknown. Through optical follow-up for two sources, we find that in all detections the H I gas is associated with the AGN, and hence that these AGN are obscured by material within their host galaxies. Most of our sample are compact, and in addition, are either gigahertz peaked spectrum (GPS), or steep spectrum (CSS) sources, both thought to represent young or recently re-triggered radio AGN. The radio spectral energy distribution classifications for our sample agree with galaxy evolution models in which the obscured AGN has only recently become active. Our associated H I detection rate for GPS and compact SS sources matches those of other surveys towards such sources. We also find shallow and asymmetric H I absorption features, which agrees with previous findings that the cold neutral medium in compact radio galaxies is typically kinematically disturbed by the AGN.