Kavli Affiliate: Naoki Yasuda
| First 5 Authors: Takayuki Ohgami, Nozomu Tominaga, Yousuke Utsumi, Yuu Niino, Masaomi Tanaka
| Summary:
A gravitational wave event, S190510g, which was classified as a
binary-neutron-star coalescence at the time of preliminary alert, was detected
by LIGO/Virgo collaboration on May 10, 2019. At 1.7 hours after the issue of
its preliminary alert, we started a target-of-opportunity imaging observation
in Y-band to search for its optical counterpart using the Hyper Suprime-Cam
(HSC) on the Subaru Telescope. The observation covers a 118.8 deg$^2$ sky area
corresponding to 11.6% confidence in the localization skymap released in the
preliminary alert and 1.2% in the updated skymap. We divided the observed area
into two fields based on the availability of HSC reference images. For the
fields with the HSC reference images, we applied an image subtraction
technique; for the fields without the HSC reference images, we sought
individual HSC images by matching a catalog of observed objects with the PS1
catalog. The search depth is 22.28 mag in the former method and the limit of
search depth is 21.3 mag in the latter method. Subsequently, we performed
visual inspection and obtained 83 candidates using the former method and 50
candidates using the latter method. Since we have only the 1-day photometric
data, we evaluated probability to be located inside the 3D skymap by estimating
their distances with photometry of associated extended objects. We found three
candidates are likely located inside the 3D skymap and concluded they could be
an counterpart of S190510g, while most of 133 candidates were likely to be
supernovae because the number density of candidates was consistent with the
expected number of supernova detections. By comparing our observational depth
with a light curve model of such a kilonova reproducing AT2017gfo, we show that
early-deep observations with the Subaru/HSC can capture the rising phase of
blue component of kilonova at the estimated distance of S190510g (~230 Mpc).
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