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LIGO - Fermi Sub-Threshold Search for the 1st Advanced LIGO Science Run Jordan Camp NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Moriond Gravitation Meeting March 25, 2015 Search Team Lindy Blackburn (CfA) Nelson Christensen (Carleton College) Valerie Connaughton, Michael Briggs, Binbin Zhang (UAH) Peter Shawhan (U Md) Leo Singer (Goddard NPP) John Veitch (U Birmingham) Advanced LIGO is now operating Washington Louisiana Gravitational Wave causes differential arm displacement photodetector signal Advanced LIGO Sensitivity Goal • Factor 10 lower noise at high frequency • Higher power laser • Factor 10 lower noise at low frequency • Active seismic isolation • Factor 6 lower cutoff frequency • Multiple suspensions in series Initial LIGO BNS range Advanced LIGO BNS range 20 Mpc 200 Mpc (Washington 28 Mpc, Louisiana 68 Mpc) Recent LIGO Noise Spectrum Initial LIGO, 20 Mpc Advanced LIGO, 59 Mpc Design Sensitivity, 138 Mpc (Laser power = 25 W) O1 run this summer Short Gamma-Ray Burst sGRB Fermi • sGRB is most likely due to merging of Neutron Stars • Inspiral of NS – NS produces GW, merger produces burst of Gamma-rays • Excellent candidate for coincident detection of GW and Gamma-ray • Overlap of GW/Gamma-ray in time and location subthreshold detection • > 100 sGRBs observed by Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) • 12 Na I detectors in varying orientations, 5 degree position resolution • GW is roughly isotropic, but Gamma-ray is beamed (10 degree opening) • Need sGRB within LIGO horizon (400 Mpc), and beamed at earth LIGO – GBM Coincident Search LIGO GWs 4p FoV 100 deg2 Fermi GBM Gamma-rays 2p FoV 25 deg2 NS-NS merger: Short Gamma-Ray Burst (sGRB) • GBM coincidence in time and space will help verify the GW event • Followup of GBM with eg Palomar Transient Facility localization • host galaxy, redshift, accurate BNS parameter extraction • Relative timing of Gamma-ray and GW mass of Graviton • Energetics, beaming, and nature of sGRB • Information on NS Equation of State ? Coherent Analysis of GBM Detectors (L. Blackburn and UAH) data signal Factor 2 gain in SNR Instrument response noise source Evaluate L by marginalizing over source amplitude, position ri provided by GBM detector model (Connaughton, UAH) Test of Initial LIGO – GBM coincident analysis L. Blackburn, ApJ S 217 (2015) LIGO BNS trigger LIGO sky localization ASM GBM 8 sGRB Precursors and NS EOS E. Troja et al, Ap J 723 (2010) 9 NS Crust Resonant Shattering Process Tsang et al, PRL 108 (2012) Available Tidal Energy ~ 1050 erg Mode Energy ~ 1047 erg Fracture Seismic Energy ~ 1046 erg Shattering 10 Luminosity ~ 1046-47 erg 0.1 sec (can see 1047 erg at ~ 150 Mpc) Isotropic (!) Investigating NS Crust Equation of State fres (from GW) at time of Precursor NS EoS 11 Optimistic O1 LIGO and sGRB Rates aLIGO BNS Detections sGRB Detections Typical jet angle ~ 10 degree beaming factor ~ 100 Thus 3 LIGO BNS detections ~ 0.03 coincident sGRB detection ~ 0.3 (subthreshold/GW on jet axis) Realistic rates likely to be factor 10 lower… look to O2, O3 O1 LIGO – GBM Search • O1 run around fall 2015 – 3 months – Hanford and Livingston detector range > 60 Mpc • Pipeline development – Further tests of GBM coherent analysis – Use GBM continuous data from every downlink (CTTE) – LIGO sky localization: low-latency to enable real-time alerts • Run pipeline – Analyze results and get ready for O2 run at > 100 Mpc – Continue development of GBM coherent analysis (UAH)