Search for neutrino emission from gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope

Adrian-Martinez S, Al Samarai I, Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Anvar S, Ardid M, Astraatmadja T, Aubert JJ, Baret B, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bigongiari C, Bogazzi C, Bou-Cabo M, Bouhou B, Bouwhuis MC, Brunner J, Busto J, Camarena F, Capone A, Carloganu C, Carminati G, Carr J, Cecchini S, Charif Z, Charvis P, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Core L, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Curtil C, De Bonis G, Decowski MP, Dekeyser I, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dorosti Q, Drouhin D, Eberl T, Emanuele U, Enzenhöfer A, Ernenwein JP, Escoffier S, Fehn K, Fermani P, Ferri M, Ferry S, Flaminio V, Folger F, Fritsch U, Fuda JL, Galata S, Gay P, Geyer K, Giacomelli G, Giordano V, Gomez-Gonzalez JP, Graft K, Guillard G, Halladjian G, Hallewell G, Van Haren H, Hartman J, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herold B, Hößl J, Hsu CC, De Jong M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Kappes A, Katz U, Kavatsyuk O, Kooijman P, Kopper C, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lambard G, Larosa G, Lattuada D, Lefevre D, Lim G, Lo Presti D, Loehner H, Loucatos S, Louis F, Mangano S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Martinez-Mora JA, Meli A, Montaruli T, Morganti N, Moscoso L, Motz H, Neff M, Nezri E, Palioselitis D, Pavalas GE, Payet K, Payre P, Petrovic J, Piattelli P, Picot-Clemente N, Popa V, Pradier T, Presani E, Racca C, Reed C, Riccobene GM, Richardt C, Richter R, Riviere C, Robert A, Roensch K, Rostovtsev A, Ruiz-Rivas J, Rujoiu M, Russo GV, Salesa F, Samtleben DFE, Sapienza P, Schoeck F, Schuller JP, Schuessler F, Seitz T, Shanidze R, Simeone F, Spies A, Spurio M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Sanchez-Losa A, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Toscano S, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Vannoni G, Vecchi M, Vernin P, Visser E, Wagner S, Wijnker G, Wilms J, De Wolf E, Yepes H, Zaborov D, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2012)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Book Volume: 36

Pages Range: 204-210

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.06.001

Abstract

The ANTARES telescope is well-suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. Radio-loud active galactic nuclei with jets pointing almost directly towards the observer, the so-called blazars, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point sources. The all-sky monitor LAT on board the Fermi satellite probes the variability of any given gamma-ray bright blazar in the sky on time scales of hours to months. Assuming hadronic models, a strong correlation between the gamma-ray and the neutrino fluxes is expected. Selecting a narrow time window on the assumed neutrino production period can significantly reduce the background.An unbinned method based on the minimization of a likelihood ratio was applied to a subsample of data collected in 2008 (61 days live time). By searching for neutrinos during the high state periods of the AGN light curve, the sensitivity to these sources was improved by about a factor of two with respect to a standard time-integrated point source search. First results on the search for neutrinos associated with ten bright and variable Fermi sources are presented. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) CNRS / Center of Oceanology of Marseille (COM) La-Seyne-Sur-Mer France (FR) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Netherlands (NL) Lomonosov Moscow State University / Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова Russian Federation (RU) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Università degli studi "La Sapienza" Italy (IT)

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APA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., Al Samarai, I., Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G.,... Zuniga, J. (2012). Search for neutrino emission from gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope. Astroparticle Physics, 36(1), 204-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.06.001

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "Search for neutrino emission from gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope." Astroparticle Physics 36.1 (2012): 204-210.

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