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

Authors

A. Albert
M. André
M. Anghinolfi
Teviet Creighton, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Mario C. Diaz, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Soma Mukherjee, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Volker Quetschke, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Malik Rakhmanov, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-15-2017

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 2×1⁢051–2×1⁢054  erg.

Comments

© Physical Review D. Original version available at: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005

Recommended Citation

ANTARES Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration LIGO Scientific Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, et al. “Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube.” Physical Review D 96, no. 2 (2017): 022005. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005

Publication Title

Physical Review D

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022005