THE SEARCH FOR TRANSIENT ASTROPHYSICAL NEUTRINO EMISSION WITH ICECUBE-DEEPCORE

被引:8
作者
Aartsen, M. G. [1 ]
Abraham, K. [2 ]
Ackermann, M. [3 ]
Adams, J. [4 ]
Aguilar, J. A. [5 ]
Ahlers, M. [6 ,7 ]
Ahrens, M. [8 ,9 ]
Altmann, D. [10 ]
Anderson, T. [11 ]
Ansseaus, I. [5 ]
Archinger, M. [12 ]
Arguelles, C. [6 ,7 ]
Arlen, T. C. [11 ]
Auffenberg, J. [13 ]
Bai, X. [14 ]
Barwick, S. W. [15 ]
Baum, V. [12 ]
Bay, R. [16 ]
Beatty, J. J. [17 ,18 ,19 ]
Tjus, J. Becker [20 ]
Becker, K-H. [21 ]
Beiser, E. [6 ,7 ]
Benzvi, S. [6 ,7 ]
Berghaus, P. [3 ]
Berley, D. [22 ]
Bernardini, E. [3 ]
Bernhard, A. [2 ]
Besson, D. Z. [23 ]
Binder, G. [16 ,24 ]
Bindig, D. [21 ]
Bissoki, M. [13 ]
Blaufuss, E. [22 ]
Blumenthal, J. [13 ]
Boersma, D. J. [25 ]
Bohm, C. [8 ,9 ]
Boerner, M. [26 ]
Bos, F. [20 ]
Bose, D. [27 ]
Boeser, S. [12 ]
Botner, O. [25 ]
Braun, J. [6 ,7 ]
Brayeur, L. [28 ]
Bretz, H-P [3 ]
Buzinsky, N. [29 ]
Casey, J. [30 ,31 ]
Casier, M. [28 ]
Cheung, E. [22 ]
Chirkin, D. [6 ,7 ]
Christov, A. [32 ]
Clark, K. [33 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[2] Tech Univ Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[3] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany
[4] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand
[5] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Fac Sci, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[7] Univ Wisconsin, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophys Ctr, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[8] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[9] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[10] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[11] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[12] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
[13] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
[14] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Phys, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[15] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[16] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[17] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[18] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[19] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[20] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
[21] Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
[22] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[23] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[24] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[25] Uppsala Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
[26] Tech Univ Dortmund, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[27] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Dept Phys, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[28] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
[29] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada
[30] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[31] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[32] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[33] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[34] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[35] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[36] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[37] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA
[38] Univ Ghent, Dept Phys & Astron, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[39] Univ Humberside, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
[40] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[41] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[42] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[43] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[44] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
[45] Univ Tokyo, Earthquake Res Inst, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130032, Japan
[46] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA
[47] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[48] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[49] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[50] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 瑞典研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
astroparticle physics; gamma-ray burst: general; neutrinos; supernovae: general; TRACK RECONSTRUCTION; POINT SOURCES; PERFORMANCE;
D O I
10.3847/0004-637X/816/2/75
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the results of a search for astrophysical sources of brief transient neutrino emission using IceCube and DeepCore data acquired between 2012 May 15 and 2013 April 30. While the search methods employed in this analysis are similar to those used in previous IceCube point source searches, the data set being examined consists of a sample of predominantly sub-TeV muon-neutrinos from the Northern Sky (-5 degrees < delta < 90 degrees) obtained through a novel event selection method. This search represents a first attempt by IceCube to identify astrophysical neutrino sources in this relatively unexplored energy range. The reconstructed direction and time of arrival of neutrino events are used to search for any significant self-correlation in the data set. The data revealed no significant source of transient neutrino emission. This result has been used to construct limits at timescales ranging from roughly 1 s to 10 days for generic soft-spectra transients. We also present limits on a specific model of neutrino emission from soft jets in core-collapse supernovae.
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