{
  "id": "2001.05436",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-01-15T17:13:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-01-15T17:13:49.000Z",
  "title": "Limits on the Electromagnetic Counterpart to S190814bv",
  "authors": [
    "Alan M. Watson",
    "Nathaniel R. Butler",
    "William H. Lee",
    "Rosa L. Becerra",
    "Margarita Pereyra",
    "Fernando Angeles",
    "Alejandro Farah",
    "Liliana Figueroa",
    "Diego González-Buitrago",
    "Fernando Quirós",
    "Jaime Ruíz-Díaz-Soto",
    "Carlos Tejada de Vergas",
    "Silvio J. Tinoco",
    "Tanner Wolfram"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted by MNRAS. 6 pages",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.IM"
  ],
  "abstract": "We derive limits on any electromagnetic counterpart to the compact binary merger S190814bv, whose parameters are consistent with the merger of a black hole and a neutron star. We present observations with the new wide-field optical imager DDOTI and also consider Swift/BAT observations reported by Palmer et al. (2019). We show that Swift/BAT would have detected a counterpart with similar properties to a typical on-axis short GRB at the 98 per cent confidence level, whereas our DDOTI observations only rule out such a counterpart at the 27 per cent confidence level. Neither have sufficient sensitivity to rule out an off-axis counterpart like GW 170817. We compare the efficiency of Swift/BAT and DDOTI for future observations, and show that DDOTI is likely to be about twice as efficient as Swift/BAT for off-axis events up to about 100 Mpc.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-01-15T17:13:49.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "electromagnetic counterpart",
      "cent confidence level",
      "compact binary merger s190814bv",
      "wide-field optical imager ddoti",
      "typical on-axis short grb"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}