pith. sign in

arxiv: 2006.11306 · v1 · pith:PA7K5LKRnew · submitted 2020-06-19 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM· astro-ph.SR

Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Mergers

Mansi M. Kasliwal , Shreya Anand , Tomas Ahumada , Robert Stein , Ana Sagues Carracedo , Igor Andreoni , Michael W. Coughlin , Leo P. Singer
show 95 more authors
Erik C. Kool Kishalay De Harsh Kumar Mouza AlMualla Yuhan Yao Mattia Bulla Dougal Dobie Simeon Reusch Daniel A. Perley S. Bradley Cenko Varun Bhalerao David L. Kaplan Jesper Sollerman Ariel Goobar Christopher M. Copperwheat Eric C. Bellm G.C. Anupama Alessandra Corsi Samaya Nissanke Ivan Agudo Ashot Bagdasaryan Sudhanshu Barway Justin Belicki Joshua S. Bloom Bryce Bolin David A. H. Buckley Kevin B. Burdge Rick Burruss Maria D. Caballero-Garc{\i}a Chris Cannella Alberto J. Castro-Tirado David O. Cook Jeff Cooke Virginia Cunningham Aishwarya Dahiwale Kunal Deshmukh Simone Dichiara Dmitry A. Duev Anirban Dutta Michael Feeney Anna Franckowiak Sara Frederick Christoffer Fremling Avishay Gal-Yam Pradip Gatkine Shaon Ghosh Daniel A. Goldstein V. Zach Golkhou Matthew J. Graham Melissa L. Graham Matthew J. Hankins George Helou Youdong Hu Wing-Huen Ip Amruta Jaodand Viraj Karambelkar Albert K. H. Kong Marek Kowalski Maitreya Khandagale S. R. Kulkarni Brajesh Kumar Russ R. Laher K.L. Li Ashish Mahabal Frank J. Masci Adam A. Miller Moses Mogotsi Siddharth Mohite Kunal Mooley Przemek Mroz Jeffrey A. Newman Chow-Choong Ngeow Samantha R. Oates Atharva Sunil Patil Shashi B. Pandey M. Pavana Elena Pian Reed Riddle Ruben Sanchez-Ram{\i}rez Yashvi Sharma Avinash Singh Roger Smith Maayane T. Soumagnac Kirsty Taggart Hanjie Tan Anastasios Tzanidakis Eleonora Troja Azamat F. Valeev Richard Walters Gaurav Waratkar Sara Webb Po-Chieh Yu Bin-Bin Zhang Rongpu Zhou Jeffry Zolkower
This is my paper
classification 🌌 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.IMastro-ph.SR
keywords kilonovaemedianprobabilitybrighterneutronstarassumingfind
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run. We searched binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star black hole (NSBH) merger localizations with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and undertook follow-up with the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaboration. The GW triggers had a median localization of 4480 deg^2, median distance of 267 Mpc and false alarm rates ranging from 1.5 to 1e-25 per yr. The ZTF coverage had a median enclosed probability of 39%, median depth of 20.8mag, and median response time of 1.5 hr. The O3 follow-up by the GROWTH team comprised 340 UVOIR photometric points, 64 OIR spectra, and 3 radio. We find no promising kilonova (radioactivity-powered counterpart) and we convert the upper limits to constrain the underlying kilonova luminosity function. Assuming that all kilonovae are at least as luminous as GW170817 at discovery (-16.1mag), we calculate our joint probability of detecting zero kilonovae is only 4.2%. If we assume that all kilonovae are brighter than -16.6mag (extrapolated peak magnitude of GW170817) and fade at 1 mag/day (similar to GW170817), the joint probability of zero detections is 7%. If we separate the NSBH and BNS populations, the joint probability of zero detections, assuming all kilonovae are brighter than -16.6mag, is 9.7% for NSBH and 7.9% for BNS mergers. Moreover, <57% (<89%) of putative kilonovae could be brighter than -16.6mag assuming flat (fading) evolution, at 90% confidence. If we further account for the online terrestrial probability for each GW trigger, we find that <68% of putative kilonovae could be brighter than -16.6mag. Comparing to model grids, we find that some kilonovae must have Mej < 0.03 Msun or Xlan>1e-4 or phi>30deg to be consistent with our limits. (Abridged)

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 2 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Rapid data quality investigations of gravitational-wave events with the Data Quality Report Builder toolkit

    astro-ph.IM 2026-05 accept novelty 4.0

    DQRbuild toolkit automates data quality vetting for gravitational-wave events, recovering 96% of human-identified issues from O3 with a 24% false alarm rate.

  2. GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run

    gr-qc 2021-11 accept novelty 4.0

    GWTC-3 catalogs 90 compact binary coalescence events with p_astro > 0.5 from LIGO and Virgo's first three observing runs, including the first confident neutron star-black hole binaries.