ANTARES Neutrino Search for Time and Space Correlations with IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events

Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bormuth R, Boumaaza J, Bourret S, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Branzas H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Celli S, Chabab M, El Moursli RC, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Colomer M, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Diaz AF, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma , Domi A, Dona R, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini , El Khayati N, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Ettahiri A, Fassi F, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Fusco L, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini R, Gregoire T, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Hallmann S, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Illuminati G, James CW, De Jong M, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Khan-Chowdhury NR, Kouchner A, Kreter M, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Le Breton R, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Lopez-Coto D, Lotze M, Loucatos S, Maggi G, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martinez-Mora JA, Mele R, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Navas S, Nezri E, Nielsen C, Nunez A, Organokov M, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Popa , Pradier T, Quinn L, Racca C, Randazzo N, Riccobene G, Sanchez-Losa A, Salah-Eddine A, Salvadori , Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schussler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Thakore T, Trovato A, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zaborov D, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Book Volume: 879

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab253c

Abstract

In past years the IceCube Collaboration has reported the observation of astrophysical high-energy neutrino events in several analyses. Despite compelling evidence for the first identification of a neutrino source, TXS 0506+056, the origin of the majority of these events is still unknown. In this paper, we search for a possible transient origin of the IceCube astrophysical events using neutrino events detected by the ANTARES telescope. The arrival time and direction of 6894 track-like and 160 shower-like events detected over 2346 days of livetime are examined to search for coincidences with 54 IceCube high-energy track-like neutrino events, by means of a maximum likelihood method. No significant correlation is observed and upper limits on the one-flavor neutrino fluence from the direction of the IceCube candidates are derived. The nonobservation of time and space correlation within the time window of 0.1 days with the two most energetic IceCube events constrains the spectral index of a possible point-like transient neutrino source to be harder than -2.3 and -2.4 for each event, respectively.

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Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) École Polytechnique - Université Paris-Saclay France (FR) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) National Center for Energy Science & Nuclear Technology Morocco (MA) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Universidad de Cádiz (UCA) Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) Curtin University Australia (AU) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES)

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APA:

Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.-J.,... Zuniga, J. (2019). ANTARES Neutrino Search for Time and Space Correlations with IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events. Astrophysical Journal, 879(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab253c

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "ANTARES Neutrino Search for Time and Space Correlations with IceCube High-energy Neutrino Events." Astrophysical Journal 879.2 (2019).

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