High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

Abstract

We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on Sept. 14 th , 2015. We search for coincident neutrino candidates within the data recorded by the IceCube and Antares neutrino detectors. A possible joint detection could be used in targeted electromagnetic follow-up observations, given the significantly better angular resolution of neutrino events compared to gravitational waves. We find no neutrino candidates in both temporal and spatial coincidence with the gravitational wave event. Within ±500 s of the gravitational wave event, the number of neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and Antares were three and zero, respectively. This is consistent with the expected atmospheric background, and none of the neutrino candidates were directionally coincident with GW150914. We use this non-detection to constrain neutrino emission from the gravitational-wave event.

Search for Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande Associated With Gravitational-Wave Events Gw150914 and Gw151226

“…This is consistent with the time window chosen by the authors of Adrián-Martínez et al (2016). Using data from 2339.4 days of livetime in SK, the number of neutrino events we expect to see in a 1000 s time window is (9.41 ± 0.07)×10…”

“…For example, the possibility of highenergy neutrino emission from relativistic jets when an accretion disk is formed around the source has been discussed (Eichler et al 1989;Woosley 1993). IceCube and ANTARES have searched for high-energy neutrinos above ∼100 GeV in a time window of±500 s around the real-time alert for GW150914 issued by LIGO, but reported no positive evidence for coincident neutrino events (Adrián-Martínez et al 2016).…”

A Search for Low-energy Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational Wave Events GW 150914, GW 151226, and GW 170104 with the Borexino Detector

“…Together with the measured oscillation mass differences [38] it leads to a constraint on the maximum neutrino mass m 1 , m 2 , m 3 of 70 meV. consistent with the time window chosen in [4][5][6][7]. Two visible energy ranges are used in this analysis, the first is from 0.25 MeV to 15 MeV and the second extends from 0.4 to 15 MeV.…”

“…Cerenkov neutrino telecopes (ANTARES, IceCube [4]) and Pierre Auger Observatory [5] have searched for high energy neutrinos above 100 GeV and 100 PeV respectively. KamLAND has searched for inverse beta decay (IBD) antineutrino events with energies in the range (1.8 − 111) MeV [6] and Super-Kamiokande has reported the results for neutrino signals in neutrino energy range from 3.5 MeV to 100 PeV [7].…”

“…The observation of two gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226 and the candidate LVT151012 by the LIGO experiment [1][2][3] triggered an intensive follow-up campaign in neutrino detectors [4][5][6][7]. Cerenkov neutrino telecopes (ANTARES, IceCube [4]) and Pierre Auger Observatory [5] have searched for high energy neutrinos above 100 GeV and 100 PeV respectively.…”