Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope

Adrian-Martinez S, Albert A, Andre M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bogazzi C, Bormuth R, Bou-Cabo M, Bouwhuis MC, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Dekeyser I, Deschamps A, De Bonis G, Distefano C, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Dumas A, Eberl T, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Fehn K, Felis I, Fermani P, Folger F, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Gracia-Ruiz R, Graf K, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herrero A, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Hugon CM, James CW, De Jong M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kießling D, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lambard G, Lattuada D, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Loucatos S, Mangano S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Martinez-Mora JA, Martini S, Mathieu A, Michael T, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Mueller C, Neff M, Nezri E, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Perrina C, Piattelli P, Popa V, Pradier T, Racca C, Riccobene GM, Richter R, Roensch K, Rostovtsev A, Saldana M, Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schmid J, Schnabel J, Schulte S, Schuessler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spurio M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Sanchez-Losa A, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Trovato A, Tselengidou M, Toennis C, Turpin D, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Visser E, Vivolo D, Wagner S, Wilms J, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2015)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal

Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Article Number: ARTN 014

Journal Issue: 12

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/014

Abstract

The ANTARES telescope is well-suited for detecting astrophysical transient neutrino sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. The background due to atmospheric particles can be drastically reduced, and the point-source sensitivity improved, by selecting a narrow time window around possible neutrino production periods. Blazars, being radio-loud active galactic nuclei with their jets pointing almost directly towards the observer, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point sources, since they are among the most likely sources of the very high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos and gamma rays may be produced in hadronic interactions with the surrounding medium. Moreover, blazars generally show high time variability in their light curves at different wavelengths and on various time scales. This paper presents a time-dependent analysis applied to a selection of flaring gamma-ray blazars observed by the FERMI/LAT experiment and by TeV Cherenkov telescopes using five years of ANTARES data taken from 2008 to 2012. The results are compatible with fluctuations of the background. Upper limits on the neutrino fluence have been produced and compared to the measured gamma-ray spectral energy distribution.

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Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Lomonosov Moscow State University / Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова Russian Federation (RU) Centre CEA de Saclay (Essonne) France (FR) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR)

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APA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., Albert, A., Andre, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.J.,... Zuniga, J. (2015). Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/12/014

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "Search for muon-neutrino emission from GeV and TeV gamma-ray flaring blazars using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 12 (2015).

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