TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26468 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G191216ap: No counterpart candidates in Fermi-LAT observations DATE: 19/12/17 11:24:45 GMT FROM: Elena Moretti at IFAE,Barcelona M. Crnogorcevic (Univ. of Maryland & NASA/GSFC), E. Moretti (IFAE, Barcelona), M. Axelsson (KTH & Stockholm Univ,), E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari), N. Omodei (Stanford University), M. Arimoto (Kanazawa Univ.) and F. Longo (University & INFN, Trieste) report on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration: We have searched data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Dec 16, 2019, for possible high-energy (E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray emission in spatial/temporal coincidence with the LIGO/Virgo trigger S191216ap (GCN 26454). We define "instantaneous coverage" as the integral over the region of the LIGO probability map that is within the LAT field of view at a given time, and "cumulative coverage" as the integral of the instantaneous coverage over time. Fermi-LAT had an instantaneous coverage of ~80% of the LIGO probability at the time of the trigger (T0 = 2019-12-16 21:33:38.474 UTC), and reached 100% cumulative coverage after ~4.5 ks. We performed a search for a transient counterpart within the observed region of the 90% contour of LIGO map in a fixed time window from T0 to T0 + 10 ks. No significant new sources are found. We also performed a search which adapted the time interval of the analysis to the exposure of each region of the sky, and no additional excesses were found. Energy flux upper bounds for the fixed time interval between 100 MeV and 1 GeV for this search vary between 1.8e-10 and 3.1e-09 [erg/cm^2/s]. The Fermi-LAT point of contact for this event is Milena Crnogorcevic ( mcrnogor@astro.umd.edu). The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden. -- *Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici Cn 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain Tel:+34 931 70 27 10Avís - Aviso - Legal Notice - (LOPD) - http://legal.ifae.es * -- Avís - Aviso - Legal Notice - (LOPD) - http://legal.ifae.es