[vsnet-grb-info 25303] LIGO/Virgo S200316bj: No counterpart candidates in Fermi-LAT observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  27403
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S200316bj: No counterpart candidates in Fermi-LAT observations 
DATE:    20/03/17 23:12:02 GMT
FROM:    Milena Crnogorcevic at U.of Maryland/NASA-GSFC  <milenaGCN at gmail.com>

M. Crnogorcevic (Univ. of Maryland & NASA/GSFC), E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari), 
N. Di Lalla (Stanford University), M. Axelsson (KTH & Stockholm Univ), 
D. Kocevski (NASA/MSFC), N. Omodei (Stanford Univ.) 
and F. Longo (University and INFN, Trieste)
report on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration:

We have searched data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) on 
March 16, 2020, for possible high-energy (E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray emission in 
spatial/temporal coincidence with the LIGO/Virgo trigger S200316bj (GCN 27388).
 
We define "instantaneous coverage" as the integral over the region of the LIGO
probability map that is within the LAT field of view at a given time, and "cumulative
coverage" as the integral of the instantaneous coverage over time. Fermi-LAT had
an instantaneous coverage of ~33% of the LIGO probability at the time of the trigger
(T0 = 2020-03-16 21:57:56.158 UTC), and reached 100% cumulative coverage after ~2.3 ks.

We performed a search for a transient counterpart within the observed region of 
the 90% contour of LIGO map in a fixed time window from T0 to T0 + 10 ks. 
No significant new sources are found.
 
We also performed a search which adapted the time interval of the analysis to the
exposure of each region of the sky, and no additional excesses were found.

Energy flux upper bounds for the fixed time interval between 100 MeV and 1 GeV
for this search vary between 1.9e-10 and 2.0e-9 [erg/cm^2/s].
  
The Fermi-LAT point of contact for this event is 
Milena Crnogorcevic (mcrnogor at astro.umd.edu).

The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover
the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV.
It is the product of an international collaboration between
NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions
across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.