SWIFT FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS OF CANDIDATE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT EVENTS

Document #:

LIGO-P1100038-v6

Document type:

P - Publications

Abstract:

We present multi-wavelength follow-up observations with Swift of a small sample of candidate gravitational-wave transient events recorded by LIGO-Virgo in their 2009-2010 science run.

Files in Document:

• to-be-submitted-to-arXiv (P1100038.pdf, 517.2 kB)

Other Files:

• content of all tables in paper in plain ascii (alltables-plainascii.txt, 8.9 kB)
• data in ascii format for figure 3 of the paper (fig_3_data.txt, 520.5 kB)
• input data for figure 1a (fig_1a_data.txt, 37.9 kB)
• input data for figure 1b (fig_1b_data.txt, 35.1 kB)
• raw data for fig. 2 (lvswift.tar, 33.3 MB)

Topics:

• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger

Author Groups:

• LVC

Keywords:

transients electromagnetic follow-up

Notes and Changes:

This is the version to be submitted to arXiv following the final 1-week wait time within LSC/Virgo. It is TEX version 162, pdf version 156. It accommodates minor comments and v8 of the author list.

Publication Information:

Paper synopsis for students/teachers/public:
http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6LVSwift/

arXiv posting: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1124