Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., Antares Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D, 96 (2). 022005. ISSN 1550-2368 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005)

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Abstract

The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up search for the second gravitational wave event, GW151226, as well as for gravitational wave candidate LVT151012. We find two and four neutrino candidates detected by IceCube, and one and zero detected by Antares, within ±500  s around the respective gravitational wave signals, consistent with the expected background rate. None of these neutrino candidates are found to be directionally coincident with GW151226 or LVT151012. We use nondetection to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW151226, adopting the GW event’s 3D localization, to less than 2×1051–2×1054  erg.

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Abbott, B. P., Jawahar, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4945-691X, Lockerbie, N. A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-3260 and Tokmakov, K. V. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2808-6593;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:62497
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    12 July 2017
    Published
    1 April 2017
    Accepted
    Notes:Over 1000 authors of this article. Please see manuscript for full attribution details.
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:01 Dec 2017 11:34
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:51
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62497
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