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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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

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei.

Physical review letters American Physical Society (APS) 123:18 (2019) ARTN 181101

Authors:

Y Yang, I Bartos, V Gayathri, Kes Ford, Z Haiman, S Klimenko, B Kocsis, S Márka, Z Márka, B McKernan, R O'Shaughnessy

Abstract:

The origins of the stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered by LIGO/Virgo are still unknown. Here we show that if migration traps develop in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and promote the mergers of their captive black holes, the majority of black holes within disks will undergo hierarchical mergers-with one of the black holes being the remnant of a previous merger. 40% of AGN-assisted mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo will include a black hole with mass ≳50M_{⊙}, the mass limit from stellar core collapse. Hierarchical mergers at traps in AGNs will exhibit black hole spins (anti)aligned with the binary's orbital axis, a distinct property from other hierarchical channels. Our results suggest, although not definitively (with odds ratio of ∼1), that LIGO's heaviest merger so far, GW170729, could have originated from this channel.