C. Adams, I. Bartos, K. Corley, S. M'arka, Z. Márka, D. Veske, M. Capasso, Rene A. Ong, I. Sadeh, P. Kaaret, Weidong Jin, W. Benbow, R. Mukherjee, R. Prado, M. Lundy, Sameer Patel, P. Moriarty, Gernot Maier, A. Furniss, K. Ragan, David Williams, J. Buckley, L. Fortson, J. Quinn, J. Holder, C. Giuri, E. Pueschel, Daniel Nieto, S. O’Brien, Deivid Ribeiro, K. Pfrang, O. Gueta, G. Foote, A. Weinstein, Sajan Kumar, Tyler Williamson, D. Tak, Conor McGrath, T. Kleiner, M. Pohl, Paul Reynolds, B. Hona, D. Hanna, M. Santander, G. Sembroski, S. R. Patel, M. Errando, M. Kertzman, O. Hervet, Mireia Nievas-Rosillo, Mark Lang, E. Roache, T. Humensky, R. Shang, V. Vassiliev, A. Chromey, A. Falcone, J. Christiansen, A. Otte, A. Gent, A. Brill, J. Ryan, Kayla Farrell, G. Gillanders, Qi Feng, A. Archer, D. Kieda
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The recent discovery of electromagnetic signals in coincidence with gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers has solidified the importance of multimessenger campaigns for studying the most energetic astrophysical events. Pioneering multimessenger observatories, such as the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detectors and the IceCube neutrino observatory, record many candidate signals that fall short of the detection significance threshold. These sub-threshold event candidates are promising targets for multimessenger studies, as the information provided by these candidates may, when combined with time-coincident gamma-ray observations, lead to significant detections. In this contribution, I describe our use of sub-threshold binary neutron star merger candidates identified in Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1) to search for transient events in very-high-energy gamma rays using archival observations from the VERITAS imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array. I describe the promise of this technique for future joint sub-threshold searches.