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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b

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Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b. / The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration.
In: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 928, No. 2, 186, 01.04.2022.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration 2022, 'Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 928, no. 2, 186. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration (2022). Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b. The Astrophysical Journal, 928(2), Article 186. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b. The Astrophysical Journal. 2022 Apr 1;928(2):186. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac532b

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration. / Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO–Virgo Run O3b. In: The Astrophysical Journal. 2022 ; Vol. 928, No. 2.

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abstract = "We search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the second half of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2019 November 1 15:00 UTC–2020 March 27 17:00 UTC). We conduct two independent searches: a generic gravitational-wave transients search to analyze 86 GRBs and an analysis to target binary mergers with at least one neutron star as short GRB progenitors for 17 events. We find no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with any of these GRBs. A weighted binomial test of the combined results finds no evidence for subthreshold gravitational-wave signals associated with this GRB ensemble either. We use several source types and signal morphologies during the searches, resulting in lower bounds on the estimated distance to each GRB. Finally, we constrain the population of low-luminosity short GRBs using results from the first to the third observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The resulting population is in accordance with the local binary neutron star merger rate.",
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