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Searches for TeV gamma-ray counterparts to Gravitational Wave events with H.E.S.S

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arxiv 1906.10426 v2 pith:RG5LYECG submitted 2019-06-25 astro-ph.HE

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The search for electromagnetic counterparts for gravitational waves events is one of the main topics of multi-messenger Astrophysics. Among these searches is the one for high energy gamma-ray emission with the H.E.S.S. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in Namibia. During their second Observation Run O2, the Advanced Virgo detector in Italy and the two advanced LIGO detectors in Washington and Louisiana while conducting joint observations, detected for the first time, on August $14^{th}$, 2017 a transient GW signal due to the coalescence of two stellar masses black holes, an event labeled GW170814. The alert announcing the event was issued two hours later and H.E.S.S. observations could be scheduled for the nights of $16^{th}$, $17^{th}$ and $18^{th}$ August 2017. Three days after the binary BH merger, on August $17^{th}$, the coalescence of two neutron star was detected for the first time, followed by a GRB detection by Fermi's GBM starting a new era in multi-messenger Astronomy. Observations started 5.3 h after the merge and contained the counterpart SSS17a that was identified several hours later. It stands as the first data obtained by a ground-based pointing instrument on this object. In this contribution, we will present the results of the search of high-energy gamma ray emission as electromagnetic counterpart of these two GW events. No significant gamma ray emission was detected for either event. Nevertheless upper limit maps were derived constraining, for the first time, the non-thermal, high-energy emission on the remnant of a three detector binary black hole coalescence (GW170814), and a binary neutron star coalescence (GW170817).

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  1. Searches for counterparts of gravitational waves at very high energies with H.E.S.S

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    H.E.S.S. developed scheduling and alert tools for gravitational wave follow-up and used them to observe GW170814, GW170817, and S190512at, finding no significant very-high-energy gamma-ray emission.

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