Journal Article

All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope

Bertin, V., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Lotze, M., Pradier, T., Felis, I., Giordano, V., Graf, K., Sapienza, P., Bruijn, R., Kadler, M., Vallage, B., Kouchner, A., Donzaud, C., Anton, G., André, M., Capone, A., Michael, T., Pellegrino, C., Coniglione, R., Zornoza, J. D., Migliozzi, P., Versari, F., Lahmann, R., Hugon, C., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Biagi, S., Kulikovskiy, V., Hallmann, S., Sanguineti, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Nezri, E., El Khayati, N., Mele, R., Piattelli, P., Turpin, D., Distefano, C., Illuminati, G., Vizzoca, A., Lachaud, C., Salvadori, I., Eberl, T., Perrina, C., Sánchez-Losa, A., Celli, S., Wilms, J., Fusco, L. A., Enzenhöfer, A., Heijboer, A. J., Marcelin, M., Moussa, A., Bormuth, R., James, C. W., Stolarczyk, Th, Bourret, S., Riccobene, G., Vivolo, D., Creusot, A., Grégoire, T., Chiarusi, T., El Bojaddaini, I., Sieger, C., Avgitas, T., Organokov, M., Gay, P., Samtleben, D. F. E., Loucatos, S., Aubert, J.-J., Belhorma, B., Hößl, J., Díaz, A. F., Katz, U., Albert, A., Navas, S., Caramete, L., Cherkaoui El Moursli, R., Kalekin, O., Glotin, H., Gracia Ruiz, R., Hello, Y., Costantini, H., Circella, M., Quinn, L., de Jong, M., Leonora, E., Racca, C

2017

Overview

Advanced  LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4th, 2017. An all-sky high-energy neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the Antares  neutrino telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within ± 500  s around the GW event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of ± 3  months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than ∼ 1.2 × 10 55  erg for a E - 2 spectrum. This constraint is valid in the energy range corresponding to the 5–95% quantiles of the neutrino flux [3.2 TeV; 3.6 PeV], if the GW emitter was below the Antares horizon at the alert time.

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Subject: Astronomy / Astrophysics and Cosmology / Elementary Particles / Hadrons / Heavy Ions / Measurement Science and Instrumentation / Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Physics / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Field Theories / Quantum Field Theory / Regular Article - Experimental Physics / String Theory