TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26649 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S200105ae: no counterpart candidates in the Swift/BAT observations DATE: 20/01/06 23:41:41 GMT FROM: Amy Lien at GSFC S. D. Barthelmy (NASA/GSFC), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), A. P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), M. G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), A. A. Breeveld (MSSL-UCL), D. N. Burrows (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC), G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (ASI-ASDC), S. Emery (UCL-MSSL), P. A. Evans (U. Leicester), P. Giommi (ASI), C. Gronwall (PSU), D. Hartmann (Clemson U.), J. A. Kennea (PSU), N. Klingler (PSU), H. A. Krimm (NSF), N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J. A. Nousek (PSU), S. R. Oates (U. of Birmingham), P. T. O'Brien (U. Leicester), J. P. Osborne (U. Leicester), C. Pagani (U. Leicester), K. L. Page (U.Leicester), M. J. Page (UCL-MSSL), M. Perri (ASDC), J. L. Racusin (NASA/GSFC), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), M. H. Siegel (PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto), E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP) report on behalf of the Swift team: We report the search results in the BAT data within T0 +/- 100 s of the LVC event S200105ae (LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration GCN Circ. 26557), where T0 is the LVC trigger time (2020-01-05T16:24:53.057 UTC). The center of the BAT field of view (FOV) at T0 is RA = 206.337 deg, DEC = 41.706 deg, and the roll angle is 103.682 deg. The BAT FOV (>10% partial coding) covers 10.35% of the integrated LVC localization probability. Note that the sensitivity in the BAT FOV changes with the partial coding fraction. Please see the BAT FOV figure in the summary page (link below) for the specific location of the LVC region relative to the BAT FOV. Within T0 +/- 100 s, no significant astrophysical detections (signal-to-noise ratio >~ 5 sigma) are found in the BAT raw light curves with time bins of 64 ms, 1 s, and 1.6 s. The pulse and the dip seen at ~T0+50 s is due to onboard calibration process during spacecraft slews. Assuming an on-axis (100% coded) short GRB with a typical spectrum in the BAT energy range (i.e., a simple power-law model with a power-law index of -1.32, Lien & Sakamoto et al. 2016), the 5-sigma upper limit in the 1-s binned light curve corresponds to a flux upper limit (15-350 keV) of ~ 1.60 x 10^-7 erg/s/cm^2. Assuming a luminosity of ~ 2 x 10^47 erg/s (similar to GW170817) and an average Epeak of ~ 400 keV for short GRBs (Bhat et al. 2016), this flux upper limit corresponds to a distance of ~ 56.80 Mpc. No event data are available within T0 +/- 100 s. BAT retains decreased, but significant, sensitivity to rate increases for gamma-ray events outside of its FOV. About 7.88% of the integrated LVC localization probability was outside of the BAT FOV but above the Earth's limb from Swift's location, and the corresponding flux upper limits for this region are within roughly an order of magnitude higher than those within the FOV. The results of the BAT analysis are available at https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/BATbursts/team_web/S200105ae/web/source_public.html