DETECTING BINARY NEUTRON STARS WITH LIGO
GERGELY DÁLYA ELTE Dept. of Atomic Physics
ELFT Astroparticle Summer School 09/05/2018
DETECTING BINARY NEUTRON STARS WITH LIGO GERGELY D LYA ELTE Dept. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
DETECTING BINARY NEUTRON STARS WITH LIGO GERGELY D LYA ELTE Dept. of Atomic Physics ELFT Astroparticle Summer School 09/05/2018 FURTHER DETECTORS SOURCE LOCALIZATION 2 aLIGO: ~100 sqdeg, aLIGO + AdV: ~10 sqdeg SOURCE LOCALIZATION ~200
GERGELY DÁLYA ELTE Dept. of Atomic Physics
ELFT Astroparticle Summer School 09/05/2018
2 aLIGO: ~100 sqdeg, aLIGO + AdV: ~10 sqdeg
~200 galaxies; with distance information: 15 within 1 sigma
50 000 3 000 000 Complete to 30 Mpc 37 Mpc Cutoff @ 100 Mpc
GWGC GLADE
no cutoff
2MASS XSC 2MPZ HyperLEDA SDSS-DR12Q ~1.6 million gx, no distance or B magnitude ~900 000 galaxies, photo-z and B mag ~2.6 million galaxies, spectro-z ~300 000 quasars, spectro-z or photo-z
CROSS-MATCHING PECULIAR VELOCITY CORRECTION Chi-squared probe with 4 parameters (RA, dec, z, B) For cosmological applications
3 million galaxies, 300 000 quasars, 150 globular clusters
Comparing the total B luminosity of GLADE galaxies to the expected
Dividing the galaxies into 12 distance shells and comparing their integrated luminosity to that of the Schechter function
Dividing the galaxies into 12 distance shells and comparing their integrated luminosity to that of the Schechter function
Online & offline analyses
Matched filtering Burst searches
Once in every hour, well-modeled
~40 Mpc distance: the closest one! 1.6 and 1.1 solar masses SNR=32, 100 s length Fermi & INTEGRAL: GRB EM counterparts? Alerting partner observatories