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Description
The talk will summarize the scientific implication of the INTEGRAL observations of the LVC O2 run and, in particular, of the upper limits for the BH-BH mergers and the detection of the first prompt electromagnetic counterpart coincident with a GW170817.
Authors : UBERTINI, Pietro (IAPS-INAF), BAZZANO, Angela (IAPS-INAF) ; NATALUCCI, Lorenzo (INAF/IAPS) ; RODI, James (IAPS-INAF) et al on behalf of the INTEGRAL GW Team.
Summary
The first detection of the prompt electromagnetic counterpart coincident with a GW170817 has been a forward step in our knowledge of NS-NS merging.
An unexpected result was the extremely low isotropic luminosity of the event relative to other short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) with known redshifts, revealing a population of low luminosity SGRBs. The most popular interpretation has been that GRB 170817A was viewed off-axis, rather than that the event had an intrinsically low luminosity. In either case, this
result has spurred off-line searches for SGRBs below instrument trigger thresholds in hopes of finding similar events.
We will present a data set from the INTEGRAL soft gamma-ray detector IBIS/PICsIT (~200 keV - 10 MeV) to corroborate the list of publicly available un-triggered SGRB candidates reported by Fermi/GBM.
