Implications for the Origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO Observations
- Creators
- Abadie, J.
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, Rana X.
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Ajith, P.
- Anderson, S. B.
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Arai, K.
- Araya, M. C.
- Ballmer, S.
- Betzwieser, J.
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Billingsley, G.
- Black, E.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Cannon, K.
- Cepeda, C.
- Chalermsongsak, T.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Dannenberg, R.
- Daudert, B.
- Dergachev, V.
- DeSalvo, R.
- Driggers, J. C.
- Ehrens, P.
- Engel, R.
- Etzel, T.
- Gustafson, E. K.
- Hanna, C.
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Harms, J.
- Heefner, J.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
- Hodge, K. A.
- Ivanov, A.
- Kalmus, P.
- Kells, W.
- King, P. J.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D.
- Lazzarini, A.
- Lindquist, P. E.
- Mageswaran, M.
- Mailand, K.
- Maros, E.
- Marx, J. N.
- McIntyre, G.
- Meshkov, S.
- Nash, T.
- Ogin, G. H.
- Osthelder, C.
- Patel, P.
- Pedraza, M.
- Phelps, M.
- Privitera, S.
- Robertson, N. A.
- Sannibale, V.
- Searle, A. C.
- Seifert, F.
- Sengupta, A. S.
- Singer, A.
- Singer, L.
- Smith, M. R.
- Stochino, A.
- Taylor, R.
- Torrie, C. I.
- Vass, S.
- Villar, A. E.
- Wallace, L.
- Ward, R. L.
- Whitcomb, S. E.
- Willems, P. A.
- Yamamoto, H.
- Yeaton-Massey, D.
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Zhang, L.
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Zweizig, J.
- Boyle, M.
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Chen, Y.
- Hong, T.
- Luan, J.
- Mino, Y.
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Ott, C. D.
- Somiya, K.
- Thorne, K. S.
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Vallisneri, M.
- Wen, L.
- Yang, H.
- Drever, R. W. P.
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Weinstein, Alan J.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Abstract
We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral galaxy M81, which is 3.6 Mpc from Earth. Possible progenitors for short-hard GRBs include compact object mergers and soft gamma repeater (SGR) giant flares. A merger progenitor would produce a characteristic GW signal that should be detectable at a distance of M81, while GW emission from an SGR is not expected to be detectable at that distance. We found no evidence of a GW signal associated with GRB 051103. Assuming weakly beamed γ-ray emission with a jet semi-angle of 30°, we exclude a binary neutron star merger in M81 as the progenitor with a confidence of 98%. Neutron star-black hole mergers are excluded with >99% confidence. If the event occurred in M81, then our findings support the hypothesis that GRB 051103 was due to an SGR giant flare, making it one of the most distant extragalactic magnetars observed to date.
Additional Information
© 2012 American Astronomical Society. Received 2012 February 6, accepted for publication 2012 May 26. Published 2012 July 19. The authors thank A. Rowlinson and N. Tanvir for bringing GRB 051103 to our attention. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Spanish Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This document has been assigned LIGO Laboratory document number LIGO-P10000097-v12.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max Planck Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Australian Research Council
- International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Ministerio de EducaciÏŒn y Ciencia (MEC)
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- NASA
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Research Corporation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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2012-09-04Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- LIGO Document
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- LIGO-P10000097-v12