Optical and X-ray early follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts

Adrian-Martinez S, Ageron M, Albert A, Al Samarai I, 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, Bruijnk 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, Elsasser D, Enzenhofer A, Fehn K, Feis I, Fermani P, Folger F, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geisselsoder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Gracia-Ruiz R, Graf K, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herrero A, Hossl J, Hofestadt J, Hugon CM, James C, 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, Sanguinetiz M, Sapienza P, Schmid J, Schnabel J, Schulte S, Schussler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spurio M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Sanchez-Losa A, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Trovato A, Tselengidou M, Tonnis C, Turpin D, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Vecchi M, Visser E, Vivolo D, Wagner S, Wilms J, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J, Klotz A, Boer M, Le Van Suu A, Akerlof C, Zheng W, Evans P, Gehrels N, Kennea J, Osborne JP, Coward DM (2016)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Review article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Publisher: Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access

Book Volume: 2016

Article Number: 062

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/062

Abstract

High-energy neutrinos could be produced in the interaction of charged cosmic rays with matter or radiation surrounding astrophysical sources. Even with the recent detection of extraterrestrial high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube experiment, no astrophysical neutrino source has yet been discovered. Transient sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, or active galactic nuclei are promising candidates. Multi-messenger programs offer a unique opportunity to detect these transient sources. By combining the information provided by the ANTARES neutrino telescope with information coming from other observatories, the probability of detecting a source is enhanced, allowing the possibility of identifying a neutrino progenitor from a single detected event. A method based on optical and X-ray follow-ups of high-energy neutrino alerts has been developed within the ANTARES collaboration. This method does not require any assumptions on the relation between neutrino and photon spectra other than time-correlation. This program, denoted as TAToO, triggers a network of robotic optical telescopes (TAROT and ROTSE) and the Swift-XRT with a delay of only a few seconds after a neutrino detection, and is therefore well-suited to search for fast transient sources. To identify an optical or X-ray counterpart to a neutrino signal, the images provided by the follow-up observations are analysed with dedicated pipelines. A total of 42 alerts with optical and 7 alerts with X-ray images taken with a maximum delay of 24 hours after the neutrino trigger have been analysed. No optical or X-ray counterparts associated to the neutrino triggers have been found, and upper limits on transient source magnitudes have been derived. The probability to reject the gamma-ray burst origin hypothesis has been computed for each alert.

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Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) 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) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) ARTEMIS France (FR) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States (USA) (US) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) University of Michigan United States (USA) (US) University of Leicester United Kingdom (GB) Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées France (FR) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States (USA) (US) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University 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) Observatoire de Haute-Provence France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) University of Western Australia (UWA) Australia (AU) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) University of California, Berkeley United States (USA) (US) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR)

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APA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., Ageron, M., Albert, A., Al Samarai, I., Andre, M., Anton, G.,... Coward, D.M. (2016). Optical and X-ray early follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/02/062

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "Optical and X-ray early follow-up of ANTARES neutrino alerts." Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2016.2 (2016).

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