Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

Adrian-Martinez S, Albert A, Andre M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagii 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, Core L, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, De Rosa G, Dekeyser I, Deschamps A, De Bonis G, Distefano C, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dorosti Q, Drouhin D, Dumas A, Eberl T, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Escoffier S, Fehn K, Fells I, Fermani P, Folger F, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Gomez-Gonzalez JP, Graf K, Guillard G, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herold B, Herrero A, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Hugon CM, James C, De Jong M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Kappes A, Katz U, Kießling D, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lambard E, Lambard G, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Loehner H, Loucatos S, Mangano S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Martinez-Mora JA, Martini S, Mathieu A, Michael T, Migliozzi P, Müller C, Neff M, Nezri E, Palioselitis D, Pavalas GE, Perrina C, Popa V, Pradier T, Racca C, Riccobene GM, Richter R, Roensch K, Rostovtsev A, Saldana M, Samtleben DFE, Sanchez-Losa A, Sanguineti M, Schmid J, Schnabel J, Schulte S, Schuessler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spies A, Spurioi M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Tayalati Y, Trovato A, Tselengidou M, Toennis C, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Eewyck V, Visser E, Vivolo D, Wagner S, Wilms J, De Wolf E, Yatkin K, Yepes H, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J, Falco EE (2014)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Journal

Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Article Number: ARTN 017

Journal Issue: 11

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/11/017

Abstract

This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. This strategy is illustrated with a search for cosmic neutrinos in the direction of four distant and gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars. The magnification factor is estimated for each system assuming a singular isothermal profile for the lens. Based on data collected from 2007 to 2012 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope, the strongest constraint is obtained from the lensed quasar B0218+357, providing a limit on the total neutrino luminosity of this source of 1.08 x 10(46) erg s(-1) This limit is about one order of magnitude lower than those previously obtained in the ANTARES standard point source searches with non-lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars.

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Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) 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) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU) Harvard University United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., Albert, A., Andre, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.J.,... Falco, E.E. (2014). Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 11. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/11/017

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 11 (2014).

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