SEARCHES FOR PERIODIC NEUTRINO EMISSION FROM BINARY SYSTEMS WITH 22 AND 40 STRINGS OF ICECUBE

被引:9
作者
Abbasi, R. [1 ]
Abdou, Y. [2 ]
Abu-Zayyad, T. [3 ]
Ackermann, M. [4 ]
Adams, J. [5 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [1 ]
Ahlers, M. [6 ]
Allen, M. M. [7 ]
Altmann, D. [8 ]
Andeen, K. [1 ]
Auffenberg, J. [9 ]
Bai, X. [10 ,11 ]
Baker, M. [1 ]
Barwick, S. W. [12 ]
Bay, R. [13 ]
Alba, J. L. Bazo [4 ]
Beattie, K. [14 ]
Beatty, J. J. [15 ,16 ,17 ]
Bechet, S. [18 ]
Becker, J. K. [19 ]
Becker, K. -H. [9 ]
Benabderrahmane, M. L. [4 ]
BenZvi, S. [1 ]
Berdermann, J. [4 ]
Berghaus, P. [10 ,11 ]
Berley, D. [20 ]
Bernardini, E. [4 ]
Bertrand, D. [18 ]
Besson, D. Z. [21 ]
Bindig, D. [9 ]
Bissok, M. [8 ]
Blaufuss, E. [20 ]
Blumenthal, J. [8 ]
Boersma, D. J. [8 ]
Bohm, C. [22 ,23 ]
Bose, D. [24 ]
Boeser, S. [25 ]
Botner, O. [26 ]
Brown, A. M. [5 ]
Buitink, S. [24 ]
Caballero-Mora, K. S. [7 ]
Carson, M. [2 ]
Chirkin, D. [1 ]
Christy, B. [20 ]
Clevermann, F. [27 ]
Cohen, S. [28 ]
Colnard, C. [29 ]
Cowen, D. F. [7 ,30 ]
Silva, A. H. Cruz [4 ]
D'Agostino, M. V. [13 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA
[4] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany
[5] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand
[6] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England
[7] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[8] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 2, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[9] Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
[10] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[11] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[12] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[13] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[14] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[15] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[16] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[17] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[18] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Sci Fac CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[19] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[20] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[21] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[22] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[23] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[24] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[25] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[26] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
[27] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[28] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[29] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany
[30] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[31] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[32] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[33] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[34] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[35] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G7, Canada
[36] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[37] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[38] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[39] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA
[40] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[41] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[42] Univ Alaska, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA
[43] Univ W Indies, Dept Phys, BB-11000 Bridgetown, Barbados
[44] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[45] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
[46] Dipartimento Fis, Sez INFN, I-70126 Bari, Italy
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
astroparticle physics; binaries: general; neutrinos; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION; LS I+61-DEGREES 303; X-RAY; CYGNUS X-1; DISCOVERY; MICROQUASAR; VARIABILITY; PERIASTRON; TELESCOPE;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/118
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In this paper, we present the results of searches for periodic neutrino emission from a catalog of binary systems. Such modulation, observed in the photon flux, would be caused by the geometry of these systems. In the analysis, the period is fixed by these photon observations, while the phase and duration of the neutrino emission are treated as free parameters to be fit with the data. If the emission occurs during similar to 20% or less of the total period, this analysis achieves better sensitivity than a time-integrated analysis. We use the IceCube data taken from 2007 May 31 to 2008 April 5 with its 22 string configuration and from 2008 April 5 to 2009 May 20 with its 40 string configuration. No evidence for neutrino emission is found, with the strongest excess occurring for Cygnus X-3 at 2.1 sigma significance after accounting for trials. Neutrino flux upper limits for both periodic and time-integrated emission are provided.
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