The 19th High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting took place in Pittsburgh, PA from March 13-17, 2002. Several members of the Relativistic Astrophysics team attended in person and spoke on various missions:
Michelle Hui (ST12) presented the MoonBEAM and StarBurst missions at the special session: Transient High-Energy Astrophysics with Small Satellites. The session brought together US and international missions, funded or in development, with the goal of observing transients in the era of multi-messenger astronomy. It is put together by the Gamma-ray Burst NanoSats community that the MoonBEAM and StarBurst teams are involved in, and a more focused workshop is planned in the Fall on mission development progress and common technical challenges.
Corinne Fletcher (USRA) presented the joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT search for gamma-ray bursts in coincident with gravitational wave events from the Third Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog. The methodology and joint Fermi and Swift upper limits are presented in the poster titled “The Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT in Coincidence with GWTC Events”. The current upper limits for binary black hole mergers disfavor the neutrino model for electromagnetic emission.
Rachel Hamburg (UAH) presented an overview of Gamma-ray Bursts in Time-Domain Astronomy at the Gamma Ray Science Interest Group meeting. Topics highlighted in the talk include the multi-messenger science with Fermi-GBM, Swift-BAT, and the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational wave observatories, and open questions from the recent optical afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts. Recording of the session is available at https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/physpag/meetings/HEAD2022/HEAD2022-agenda.php
Daniel Kocevski (ST12) and Michael Briggs (UAH) were also in attendance in support of missions the Relativistic Astrophysics team is involved in: Fermi, StarBurst, MoonBEAM, BurstCube, Glowbug, and AMEGO-X.
