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Title: | AGILE Observations of the Gravitational-wave Source GW170104 | Authors: | VERRECCHIA, Francesco TAVANI, MARCO URSI, ALESSANDRO ARGAN, ANDREA PITTORI, Carlotta Donnarumma, I. BULGARELLI, ANDREA FUSCHINO, FABIO LABANTI, CLAUDIO Marisaldi, M. EVANGELISTA, YURI MINERVINI, GABRIELE GIULIANI, ANDREA CARDILLO , MARTINA Longo, F. LUCARELLI, Fabrizio Munar-Adrover, P. PIANO, Giovanni PILIA, Maura FIORETTI, VALENTINA PARMIGGIANI, NICOLO TROIS, ALESSIO Monte, E. Del ANTONELLI, Lucio Angelo Barbiellini, G. CARAVEO, PATRIZIA Cattaneo, P. W. Colafrancesco, S. Costa, E. D’Amico, F. FEROCI, MARCO Ferrari, A. Morselli, A. PACCIANI, LUIGI Paoletti, F. PELLIZZONI, ALBERTO PAOLO Picozza, P. Rappoldi, A. VERCELLONE, STEFANO |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | Number: | 847 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | L20 | Abstract: | The LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected on 2017 January 4 a significant gravitational-wave (GW) event (now named GW170104). We report in this Letter the main results obtained from the analysis of hard X-ray and gamma-ray data of the AGILE mission that repeatedly observed the GW170104 localization region (LR). At the LVC detection time T0 AGILE observed about 36% of the LR. The gamma-ray imaging detector did not reveal any significant emission in the energy range 50 MeV-30 GeV. Furthermore, no significant gamma-ray transients were detected in the LR that was repeatedly exposed over timescales of minutes, hours, and days. We also searched for transient emission using data near T0 of the omnidirectional detector MCAL operating in the energy band 0.4-100 MeV. A refined analysis of MCAL data shows the existence of a weak event (that we call “E2”) with a signal-to-noise ratio of 4.4σ lasting about 32 ms and occurring 0.46 ± 0.05 s before T0. A study of the MCAL background and of the false-alarm rate of E2 leads to the determination of a post-trial significance between 2.4σ and 2.7σ for a temporal coincidence with GW170104. We note that E2 has characteristics similar to those detected from the weak precursor of GRB 090510. The candidate event E2 is worth consideration for simultaneous detection by other satellites. If associated with GW170104, it shows emission in the MeV band of a short burst preceding the final coalescence by 0.46 s and involving ∼10^-7 of the total rest mass energy of the system. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29568 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8224 | ISSN: | 2041-8205 | DOI: | 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8224 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017ApJ...847L..20V | Fulltext: | open |
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