Search for Coincident Gravitational-wave and Fast Radio Burst Events from 4-OGC and the First CHIME/FRB Catalog

Abstract

Advanced LIGO and Virgo have reported 90 confident gravitational-wave (GW) observations from compact-binary coalescences from their three observation runs. In addition, numerous subthreshold GW candidates have been identified. Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can produce GWs and short-gamma-ray bursts, as confirmed by GW170817/GRB 170817A. There may be electromagnetic counterparts recorded in archival observations associated with subthreshold GW candidates. The CHIME/FRB Collaboration has reported the first large sample of fast radio bursts (FRBs), millisecond radio transients detected up to cosmological distances; a fraction of these may be associated with BNS mergers. This work searches for coincident GWs and FRBs from BNS mergers using candidates from the fourth Open Gravitational-wave Catalog and the first CHIME/FRB catalog. We use a ranking statistic for GW/FRB association that combines the GW detection statistic with the odds of temporal and spatial association. We analyze GW candidates and nonrepeating FRBs from 2019 April 1 to 2019 July 1, when both the Advanced LIGO/Virgo GW detectors and the CHIME radio telescope were observing. The most significant coincident candidate has a false alarm rate of 0.29 per observation time, which is consistent with a null observation. The null results imply, at most,  ( 0.01 ) % –  ( 1 ) % of FRBs are produced promptly from the BNS mergers.

Searching for Associations between Short Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast Radio Bursts

“…The dispersion measures (DMs) of FRBs exceed the Milky Way's contribution and some of them have been reliably determined to be located in extragalactic systems (Chatterjee et al 2017;Bannister et al 2019;Ravi et al 2019;Marcote et al 2020). Up to now, except for the X-ray burst from the Galactic soft gamma repeater (SGR) SGR 1935+2154 coincident with the fast radio burst FRB 200428 (Bochenek et al 2020;CHIME/FRB Collaboration et al 2020), no other multiwavelength/multimessenger transients associated with FRBs have been definitely observed (DeLaunay et al 2016;Yamasaki et al 2016;Hardy et al 2017;Xi et al 2017;Zhang & Zhang 2017;Cunningham et al 2019;James et al 2019;Mereghetti et al 2020;Tavani et al 2020;Li et al 2021;Xin et al 2021;Abbott et al 2023;Wang & Nitz 2022), though there have been some works claiming tentative associations of FRBs with multiwavelength transient counterparts (Li et al 2022;Wang et al 2020b). Current FRB models can be divided into two categories: catastrophic models (e.g., Kashiyama et al 2013;Totani 2013;Falcke & Rezzolla 2014;Zhang 2014;Liu et al 2016;Wang et al 2016;Zhang 2016) and non-catastrophic models (e.g., Dai et al 2016;Murase et al 2016;Metzger et al 2017;Margalit & Metzger 2018;Ioka & Zhang 2020;Wang et al 2020a;Zhang 2020;…”

Search for Coincident Gravitational Waves and Long Gamma-Ray Bursts from 4-OGC and the Fermi-GBM/Swift-BAT Catalog

“…(2017f, 2019b, 2021b, 2022) and Nitz et al (2019) have studied temporal and spatial coincidence between GW and GRB using archival LIGO/Virgo data and Fermi-GBM/Swift-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT; Gehrels et al 2004;Barthelmy et al 2005;Meegan et al 2009) data. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al (2022) and Wang & Nitz (2022) have searched for GWs coincident with observations from the fast radio burst catalog released by the CHIME collaboration (Amiri et al 2018(Amiri et al , 2021.…”