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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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

Extracting the global signal from 21-cm fluctuations: The multi-tracer approach

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (2019)

Authors:

A Fialkov, R Barkana, Matthew Jarvis

Abstract:

The multi-tracer technique employs a ratio of densities of two differently biased galaxy samples that trace the same underlying matter density field, and was proposed to alleviate the cosmic variance problem. Here we propose a novel application of this approach, applying it to two different tracers one of which is the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the epochs of reionization and comic dawn. The second tracer is assumed to be a sample of high-redshift galaxies, but the approach can be generalized and applied to other high-redshift tracers. We show that the anisotropy of the ratio of the two density fields can be used to measure the sky-averaged 21-cm signal, probe the spectral energy distribution of radiative sources that drive this signal, and extract large-scale properties of the second tracer, e.g., the galaxy bias. Using simulated 21-cm maps and mock galaxy samples, we find that the method works well for an idealized galaxy survey. However, in the case of a more realistic galaxy survey which only probes highly biased luminous galaxies, the inevitable Poisson noise makes the reconstruction far more challenging. This difficulty can be mitigated with the greater sensitivity of future telescopes along with larger survey volumes.

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

GBTrans: a commensal search for radio pulses with the Green Bank 20-m telescope

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 489:3 (2019) 4001-4006

Authors:

Golnoosh Golpayegani, Duncan R Lorimer, Steven W Ellingson, Devansh Agarwal, Olivia Young, Frank Ghigo, Richard Prestage, Kaustubh Rajwade, Maura A McLaughlin, Michael Mingyar