A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Doctor, Z.; Kessler, R.; Herner, K.; Palmese, A.; Soares-Santos, M.; Annis, J.; Brout, D.; Holz, D. E.; Sako, M.; Rest, A.; Cowperthwaite, P.; Berger, E.; Foley, R. J.; Conselice, C. J.; Gill, M. S.  S.; Allam, S.; Balbinot, E.; Butler, R. E.; Chen, H. -Y.; Chornock, R.; Cook, E.; Diehl, H. T.; Farr, B.; Fong, W.; Frieman, J.; Fryer, C.; García-Bellido, J.; Margutti, R.; Marshall, J. L.; Matheson, T.; Metzger, B. D.; Nicholl, M.; Paz-Chinchón, F.; Salim, S.; Sauseda, M.; Secco, L. F.; Smith, R. C.; Smith, N.; Vivas, A. K.; Tucker, D. L.; Abbott, T. M.  C.; Avila, S.; Bechtol, K.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Burke, D. L.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Carrasco Kind, M.; Carretero, J.; Castander, F. J.; D’Andrea, C. B.; da Costa, L. N.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Doel, P.; Flaugher, B.; Fosalba, P.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerdes, D. W.; Goldstein, D. A.; Gruen, D.; Gruendl, R. A.; Gutierrez, G.; Hartley, W. G.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; Hoyle, B.; James, D. J.; Jeltema, T.; Kent, S.; Kuehn, K.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lahav, O.; Lima, M.; Maia, M. A.  G.; March, M.; Menanteau, F.; Miller, C. J.; Miquel, R.; Neilsen, E.; Nord, B.; Ogando, R. L.  C.; Plazas, A. A.; Roodman, A.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Schindler, R.; Schubnell, M.; Serrano, S.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Smith, M.; Sobreira, F.; Suchyta, E.; Swanson, M. E.  C.; Tarle, G.; Thomas, D.; Walker, A. R.; Wester, W.

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab08a3

Title: A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

Journal Article · Fri Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab08a3· OSTI ID:1565862

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Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of electromagnetic emission. To test whether they have rapidly fading optical counterparts, we used the Dark Energy Camera to perform an i-band search for the BBH merger GW170814, the first gravitational wave (GW) detected by three interferometers. The 87 deg² localization region (at 90% confidence) centered in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) footprint enabled us to image 86% of the probable sky area to a depth of i ~ 23 mag and provide the most comprehensive data set to search for electromagnetic (EM) emission from BBH mergers. To identify candidates, we perform difference imaging with our search images and with templates from pre-existing Dark Energy Survey (DES) images. The analysis strategy and selection requirements were designed to remove supernovae and to identify transients that decline in the first two epochs. We find two candidates, each of which is spatially coincident with a star or a high-redshift galaxy in the DES catalogs, and they are thus unlikely to be associated with GW170814. Our search finds no candidates associated with GW170814, disfavoring rapidly declining optical emission from BBH mergers brighter than i ~ 23 mag (L _optical ~ 5 × 10⁴¹ erg s^-1) 1–2 days after coalescence. In terms of GW sky map coverage, this is the most complete search for optical counterparts to BBH mergers to date.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

Contributing Organization:: DES Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; SC0019193; AC02-07CH11359; AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1565862

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1488586; OSTI ID: 1503974; OSTI ID: 1728450

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-31578; arXiv:1812.01579; FERMILAB-PUB-18-601-PPD; TRN: US2000914

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online), Vol. 873, Issue 2; ISSN 2041-8213

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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