Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations

Abbott, B; Abbott, Robert; Adhikari, Rana; Agresti, A; Ajith, P; Allen, B; Amin, R; Anderson, S B; Anderson, WG; Arain, M; Ashley, Michael; Dickson, James; Gossler, Stefan; Gray, Malcolm; Lam, Ping Koy; McClelland, David; McKenzie, Kirk; Mow-Lowry, C; Moylan, Andrew; Rabeling, David; Scott, Susan M; Searle, Antony; Slagmolen, Bram; Wette, Karl; Heefner, J; Hosken, Dave; Hough, J; Ivanov, A

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Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations

Date

2008

Authors

Abbott, B

Abbott, Robert

Adhikari, Rana

Agresti, A

Ajith, P

Allen, B

Amin, R

Anderson, S B

Anderson, WG

Arain, M

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short-duration, hard-spectrum γ-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral arms of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Possible progenitors of