The search for high-energy neutrinos coincident with fast radio bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Avgitas T, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bormuth R, Boumaaza J, Bourret S, Bouwhuis MC, Branzas H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Celli S, Chabab M, Cherkaoui El Moursli R, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coelho JAB, Coleiro A, Colomer M, Coniglione R, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Diaz AF, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, El Bojaddaini I, El Khayati N, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Ettahiri A, Fassi F, Felis I, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Fusco L, Gay P, Glotin H, 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 C, De Jong M, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kouchner A, Kreter M, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lachaud C, Lahmann R, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lotze M, Loucatos S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martinez-Mora JA, Mele R, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Navas S, Nezri E, Nunez A, Organokov M, Pavalas GE, Pellegrino C, Piattelli P, Popa V, Pradier T, Quinn L, Racca C, Randazzo N, Riccobene G, Sanchez-Losa A, Saldana M, Salvadori I, Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schussler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Trovato A, Turpin D, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zaborov D, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2019)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Book Volume: 482

Pages Range: 184-193

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2621

Abstract

In the past decade, a new class of bright transient radio sources with millisecond duration has been discovered. The origin of these so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs) is still a mystery, despite the growing observational efforts made by various multiwavelength and multimessenger facilities. To date, many models have been proposed to explain FRBs, but neither the progenitors nor the radiative and the particle acceleration processes at work have been clearly identified. In this paper, we assess whether hadronic processes may occur in the vicinity of the FRB source. If they do, FRBs may contribute to the high-energy cosmic-ray and neutrino fluxes. A search for these hadronic signatures was carried out using the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The analysis consists in looking for high-energy neutrinos, in the TeV-PeV regime, that are spatially and temporally coincident with the detected FRBs. Most of the FRBs discovered in the period 2013-2017 were in the field of view of the ANTARES detector, which is sensitive mostly to events originating from the Southern hemisphere. From this period, 12 FRBs were selected and no coincident neutrino candidate was observed. Upper limits on the per-burst neutrino fluence were derived using a power-law spectrum, dN/DE nu proportional to E-nu(-gamma), for the incoming neutrino flux, assuming spectral indexes gamma = 1.0, 2.0, 2.5. Finally, the neutrino energy was constrained by computing the total energy radiated in neutrinos, assuming different distances for the FRBs. Constraints on the neutrino fluence and on the energy released were derived from the associated null results.

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

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APA:

Albert, A., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J.-J.,... Zuniga, J. (2019). The search for high-energy neutrinos coincident with fast radio bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(1), 184-193. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2621

MLA:

Albert, A., et al. "The search for high-energy neutrinos coincident with fast radio bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482.1 (2019): 184-193.

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