@article{f5d89dacc7674d9099d551d80d8bf78d,
title = "Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations",
abstract = "We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral galaxy M81, which is 3.6Mpc from Earth. Possible progenitors for short-hard GRBs include compact object mergers and soft gamma repeater (SGR) giant flares. A merger progenitor would produce a characteristic GW signal that should be detectable at a distance of M81, while GW emission from an SGR is not expected to be detectable at that distance. We found no evidence of a GW signal associated with GRB 051103. Assuming weakly beamed γ-ray emission with a jet semi-angle of 30°, we exclude a binary neutron star merger in M81 as the progenitor with a confidence of 98%. Neutron star-black hole mergers are excluded with >99% confidence. If the event occurred in M81, then our findings support the hypothesis that GRB 051103 was due to an SGR giant flare, making it one of the most distant extragalactic magnetars observed to date.",
keywords = "gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 051103), gravitational waves, stars: magnetars",
author = "{LIGO Scientific Collaboration} and J. Abadie and Abbott, {B. P.} and Abbott, {T. D.} and R. Abbott and M. Abernathy and C. Adams and R. Adhikari and C. Affeldt and P. Ajith and B. Allen and Allen, {G. S.} and Ceron, {E. Amador} and D. Amariutei and Amin, {R. S.} and Anderson, {S. B.} and Anderson, {W. G.} and K. Arai and Arain, {M. A.} and Araya, {M. C.} and Aston, {S. M.} and D. Atkinson and P. Aufmuth and C. Aulbert and Aylott, {B. E.} and S. Babak and P. Baker and S. Ballmer and D. Barker and S. Barnum and B. Barr and P. Barriga and L. Barsotti and Barton, {M. A.} and I. Bartos and R. Bassiri and M. Bastarrika and J. Bauchrowitz and B. Behnke and Bell, {A. S.} and I. Belopolski and M. Benacquista and A. Bertolini and J. Betzwieser and N. Beveridge and Beyersdorf, {P. T.} and Bilenko, {I. A.} and G. Billingsley and J. Birch and R. Biswas and E. Black and Blackburn, {J. K.} and L. Blackburn and D. Blair and B. Bland and O. Bock and Bodiya, {T. P.} and C. Bogan and R. Bondarescu and R. Bork and M. Born and S. Bose and M. Boyle and Brady, {P. R.} and Braginsky, {V. B.} and Brau, {J. E.} and J. Breyer and Bridges, {D. O.} and M. Brinkmann and M. Britzger and Brooks, {A. F.} and Brown, {D. A.} and A. Brummitt and A. Buonanno and J. Burguet-Castell and O. Burmeister and Byer, {R. L.} and L. Cadonati and Camp, {J. B.} and P. Campsie and J. Cannizzo and K. Cannon and J. Cao and C. Capano and S. Caride and S. Caudill and M. Cavaglia and C. Cepeda and T. Chalermsongsak and E. Chalkley and P. Charlton and S. Chelkowski and Y. Chen and N. Christensen and Chua, {S. S.Y.} and S. Chung and Chung, {C. T.Y.} and F. Clara and D. Clark and J. Clark and Clayton, {J. H.} and R. Conte and D. Cook and Corbitt, {T. R.C.} and N. Cornish and Costa, {C. A.} and M. Coughlin and Coward, {D. M.} and Coyne, {D. C.} and Creighton, {J. D.E.} and Creighton, {T. D.} and Cruise, {A. M.} and A. Cumming and L. Cunningham and Culter, {R. M.} and K. Dahl and Danilishin, {S. L.} and R. Dannenberg and K. Danzmann and K. Das and B. Daudert and H. Daveloza and G. Davies and Daw, {E. J.} and T. Dayanga and D. Debra and J. Degallaix and T. Dent and V. Dergachev and R. Derosa and R. Desalvo and S. Dhurandhar and {Di Palma}, I. and M. D{\'i}az and F. Donovan and Dooley, {K. L.} and S. Dorsher and Douglas, {E. S.D.} and Drever, {R. W.P.} and Driggers, {J. C.} and Dumas, {J. C.} and S. Dwyer and T. Eberle and M. Edgar and M. Edwards and A. Effler and P. Ehrens and R. Engel and T. Etzel and M. Evans and T. Evans and M. Factourovich and S. Fairhurst and Y. Fan and Farr, {B. F.} and D. Fazi and H. Fehrmann and D. Feldbaum and Finn, {L. S.} and M. Flanigan and S. Foley and E. Forsi and N. Fotopoulos and M. Frede and M. Frei and Z. Frei and A. Freise and R. Frey and Fricke, {T. T.} and D. Friedrich and P. Fritschel and Frolov, {V. V.} and P. Fulda and M. Fyffe and J. Garcia and Garofoli, {J. A.} and I. Gholami and S. Ghosh and Giaime, {J. A.} and S. Giampanis and Giardina, {K. D.} and C. Gill and E. Goetz and Goggin, {L. M.} and G. Gonzlez and Gorodetsky, {M. L.} and S. Goler and C. Graef and A. Grant and S. Gras and C. Gray and Greenhalgh, {R. J.S.} and Gretarsson, {A. M.} and R. Grosso and H. Grote and S. Grunewald and C. Guido and R. Gupta and Gustafson, {E. K.} and R. Gustafson and B. Hage and Hallam, {J. M.} and D. Hammer and G. Hammond and J. Hanks and C. Hanna and J. Hanson and J. Harms and Harry, {G. M.} and Harry, {I. W.} and Harstad, {E. D.} and Hartman, {M. T.} and K. Haughian and K. Hayama and J. Heefner and Hendry, {M. A.} and Heng, {I. S.} and Heptonstall, {A. W.} and V. Herrera and M. Hewitson and S. Hild and D. Hoak and Hodge, {K. A.} and K. Holt and T. Hong and S. Hooper and Hosken, {D. J.} and J. Hough and Howell, {E. J.} and B. Hughey and S. Husa and Huttner, {S. H.} and Ingram, {D. R.} and R. Inta and T. Isogai and A. Ivanov and Johnson, {W. W.} and Jones, {D. I.} and G. Jones and R. Jones and L. Ju and P. Kalmus and V. Kalogera and S. Kandhasamy and Kanner, {J. B.} and E. Katsavounidis and W. Katzman and K. Kawabe and S. Kawamura and F. Kawazoe and W. Kells",
year = "2012",
month = aug,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/2",
language = "English",
volume = "755",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal",
issn = "0004-637X",
publisher = "American Astronomical Society",
number = "1",
}