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Caption: Figure 9.
Constraints set on the minidisk model for BBHs. The color scale measures the peak radio (3 GHz) afterglow luminosity of a top-hat jet observed on edge (θobs = 10°) as a function of nISM and Eiso (we leave the other model parameters unchanged; see Section 4). The vertical line indicates the isotropic-equivalent energy for a GRB at the distance of GW241125 with γ-ray fluence as measured by the Swift/GUANO for the candidate GRB counterpart to GW241125. The dashed line marks the constraints derived using our VLA observations of the GUANO field, namely, events with nISM and Eiso in the region to the right of the dashed line would have a radio luminosity density at 5 days since the GW trigger (E1) in excess to the 5σ sensitivity of our 3 GHz VLA observations. A similar contour is also plotted for VLA constraints obtained at 18 days since the GW trigger (E2).
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