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

LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Anna Green; Alberto Vecchio; Andreas Freise; Walter Del Pozzo; Ilya Mandel; John Veitch; Carl-Johan Haster; Hannah Middleton; Haoyu Wang; Will Farr; Christopher Berry; Haixing Miao; Edward Thomas; Daniel Töyrä; Serena Vinciguerra; Conor Mow-Lowry

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122010

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

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Anna Green, Alberto Vecchio, Andreas Freise, Walter Del Pozzo, Ilya Mandel, John Veitch, Carl-Johan Haster, Hannah Middleton, Haoyu Wang, Will Farr, Christopher Berry, Haixing Miao, Edward Thomas, Daniel Töyrä, Serena Vinciguerra, Conor Mow-Lowry

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We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 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 nondetection to constrain neutrino emission from the gravitational-wave event.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume	93
Issue number	12-15 June 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122010
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2016

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Ernest Rutherford Grants 2014 - Constrainining Compact Binary Formation with Gravitational Wave Observations (Lead Glasgow University)
Veitch, J.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
14/09/15 → 13/03/19
Project: Research Councils
Ernest Rutherford Fellowship : Dr John Veitch - Surveying black holes and neutron stars with gravitational waves
Veitch, J.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/02/14 → 30/04/17
Project: Research Councils
Birmingham Astrophysics : Consolidated Grant 2013-2016
Vecchio, A., Ponman, T., Freise, A., Smith, G., Speake, C., Mandel, I., Cruise, M., Raychaudhury, S. & Stevens, I.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/04/13 → 30/09/16
Project: Research Councils
UK Involvement in the Operations of Advanced LIGO
Vecchio, A. & Freise, A.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/08/11 → 31/12/15
Project: Research Councils
Bridging Advanced LIGO to Desiign Performance and Further Sensitivity Enhancements
Vecchio, A. & Freise, A.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/07/11 → 30/06/13
Project: Research Councils
Birmingham Astrophysics - Rolling Grant 2010-2015
Ponman, T., Freise, A., Vecchio, A., Cruise, M., Raychaudhury, S., Smith, G. & Speake, C.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/04/10 → 31/03/13
Project: Research Councils
UK Involvement in the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Project
Vecchio, A., Castelli, C. & Cruise, M.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/06/03 → 31/03/11
Project: Research Councils

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Green, A., Vecchio, A., Freise, A., Del Pozzo, W., Mandel, I., Veitch, J., Haster, C-J., Middleton, H., Wang, H., Farr, W., Berry, C., Miao, H., Thomas, E., Töyrä, D., Vinciguerra, S., & Mow-Lowry, C. (2016). High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), 93(12-15 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122010

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

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Ernest Rutherford Grants 2014 - Constrainining Compact Binary Formation with Gravitational Wave Observations (Lead Glasgow University)

Ernest Rutherford Fellowship : Dr John Veitch - Surveying black holes and neutron stars with gravitational waves

Birmingham Astrophysics : Consolidated Grant 2013-2016

UK Involvement in the Operations of Advanced LIGO

Bridging Advanced LIGO to Desiign Performance and Further Sensitivity Enhancements

Birmingham Astrophysics - Rolling Grant 2010-2015

UK Involvement in the Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Project

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