Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
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| author | Cai, Ce Xiong, Shao-Lin Zhang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Jin-Peng Wang, Ping Zheng, Yao-Guang Zheng, Shi-Jie Xiao, Shuo Guo, Hao-Xuan Liu, Jia-Cong Ren, Yang-Zhao Tan, Wen-Jun Wang, Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Xie, Sheng-Lun Xue, Wang-Chen Yu, Zheng-Hang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Wen-Long Zheng, Chao Luo, Jia-Wei Zhang, Shuai Song, Li-Ming Zhang, Shuang-Nan |
| author_facet | Cai, Ce Xiong, Shao-Lin Zhang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Jin-Peng Wang, Ping Zheng, Yao-Guang Zheng, Shi-Jie Xiao, Shuo Guo, Hao-Xuan Liu, Jia-Cong Ren, Yang-Zhao Tan, Wen-Jun Wang, Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Xie, Sheng-Lun Xue, Wang-Chen Yu, Zheng-Hang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Wen-Long Zheng, Chao Luo, Jia-Wei Zhang, Shuai Song, Li-Ming Zhang, Shuang-Nan |
| contents | Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are often missed. Here we present a systematic search for and verification of missed SGRBs using Fermi/GBM subthreshold triggers, jointly analyzing data from GBM, GECAM-B, and GECAM-C. Among 466 Fermi/GBM sub-threshold events (with reliability >= 5) from 2021 to 2024, 181 are within GECAM's field of view. We find that 49 out of 181 are confirmed astrophysical transients, and 41 can be classified as SGRBs. Thus, the SGRB detection rate of Fermi/GBM is increased to about 50 per year. Additionally, a complete multi-instrument monitoring and systematic verification of GBM sub-threshold events is expected to further increase the SGRB rate to about 80 per year, which is about 100% improvement relative to the GBM-triggered SGRBs. These results may have important implications on the local formation rate of SGRBs and the binary neutron star merger rate. We also searched for potential temporal coincidences between these SGRBs and gravitational waves from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4 run resulting in no detection. |
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| spellingShingle | Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications Cai, Ce Xiong, Shao-Lin Zhang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Jin-Peng Wang, Ping Zheng, Yao-Guang Zheng, Shi-Jie Xiao, Shuo Guo, Hao-Xuan Liu, Jia-Cong Ren, Yang-Zhao Tan, Wen-Jun Wang, Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Xie, Sheng-Lun Xue, Wang-Chen Yu, Zheng-Hang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Wen-Long Zheng, Chao Luo, Jia-Wei Zhang, Shuai Song, Li-Ming Zhang, Shuang-Nan High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are often missed. Here we present a systematic search for and verification of missed SGRBs using Fermi/GBM subthreshold triggers, jointly analyzing data from GBM, GECAM-B, and GECAM-C. Among 466 Fermi/GBM sub-threshold events (with reliability >= 5) from 2021 to 2024, 181 are within GECAM's field of view. We find that 49 out of 181 are confirmed astrophysical transients, and 41 can be classified as SGRBs. Thus, the SGRB detection rate of Fermi/GBM is increased to about 50 per year. Additionally, a complete multi-instrument monitoring and systematic verification of GBM sub-threshold events is expected to further increase the SGRB rate to about 80 per year, which is about 100% improvement relative to the GBM-triggered SGRBs. These results may have important implications on the local formation rate of SGRBs and the binary neutron star merger rate. We also searched for potential temporal coincidences between these SGRBs and gravitational waves from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4 run resulting in no detection. |
| title | Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02995 |