Search for Ultra-high-energy Photons from Gravitational Wave Sources with the Pierre Auger Observatory
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2023
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Abdul Halim, A.
Abreu, P.
Aglietta, M.
Allekotte, I.
Almeida Cheminant, K.
Almela, A.
Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
Ammerman Yebra, J.
Anastasi, G.A.
Anchordoqui, L.
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The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 2023; 952(1):91-1-91-11
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A. Abdul Halim ... J.A. Bellido ... R.W. Clay ... B.R. Dawson ... T.D. Grubb ... V.M. Harvey ... B.C. Manning ... et al. (The Pierre Auger Collaboration)
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A search for time-directional coincidences of ultra-high-energy (UHE) photons above 10 EeV with gravitational wave (GW) events from the LIGO/Virgo runs O1 to O3 is conducted with the Pierre Auger Observatory. Due to the distinctive properties of photon interactions and to the background expected from hadronic showers, a subset of the most interesting GW events is selected based on their localization quality and distance. Time periods of 1000 s around and 1 day after the GW events are analyzed. No coincidences are observed. Upper limits on the UHE photon fluence from a GW event are derived that are typically at ∼7 MeV cm−2 (time period 1000 s) and ∼35 MeV cm−2 (time period 1 day). Due to the proximity of the binary neutron star merger GW170817, the energy of the source transferred into UHE photons above 40 EeV is constrained to be less than 20% of its total GW energy. These are the first limits on UHE photons from GW sources.
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