Swift-BAT GUANO Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Triggers in the Third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; the Virgo Collaboration; the KAGRA Collaboration

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad9749

Swift-BAT GUANO Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Triggers in the Third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
, the Virgo Collaboration
, the KAGRA Collaboration

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pennsylvania State University
University of Alabama
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Astrophysics Science Division
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
INAF
Science and Research Directorate
Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
MIFT Department
University of Messina
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Leicester
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Clemson University
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
MST-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
California Institute of Technology
Graduate School of Science
Tokyo Institute of Technology
LIGO Hanford
Dipartimento di Farmacia
University of Salerno
INFN Sezione di Napoli
University of Warwick
Monash Centre for Astrophysics
Monash University
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Louisiana State University
Australian National University
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
University of Cambridge
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Stanford University
Cardiff University
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
National Astronomical Observatory
Advanced Technology Center
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Turin
INFN Sezione di Torino
University of Glasgow
The University of Western Australia
Astroparticule and Cosmol APC

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We present results from a search for X-ray/gamma-ray counterparts of gravitational-wave (GW) candidates from the third observing run (O3) of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA network using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT). The search includes 636 GW candidates received with low latency, 86 of which have been confirmed by the offline analysis and included in the third cumulative Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogs (GWTC-3). Targeted searches were carried out on the entire GW sample using the maximum-likelihood Non-imaging Transient Reconstruction and Temporal Search pipeline on the BAT data made available via the GUANO infrastructure. We do not detect any significant electromagnetic emission that is temporally and spatially coincident with any of the GW candidates. We report flux upper limits in the 15–350 keV band as a function of sky position for all the catalog candidates. For GW candidates where the Swift-BAT false alarm rate is less than 10⁻³ Hz, we compute the GW–BAT joint false alarm rate. Finally, the derived Swift-BAT upper limits are used to infer constraints on the putative electromagnetic emission associated with binary black hole mergers.

Original language	English
Article number	207
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	980
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9749
Publication status	Published - 20 Feb 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Swift-BAT GUANO Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Triggers in the Third LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observing Run

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