A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrinos
| Autor: | G. Gutierrez, Vinu Vikram, Shantanu Desai, Flavia Sobreira, Jennifer L. Marshall, D. J. Brout, Mathew Smith, B. Flaugher, Devon L. Hollowood, Alistair R. Walker, Zoheyr Doctor, M. Carrasco Kind, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Josh Frieman, M. A. G. Maia, Alyssa Garcia, Marcos Lima, A. A. Plazas, V. Scarpine, Eric H. Neilsen, J. Gschwend, Alex Drlica-Wagner, David J. James, Jochen Weller, A. Carnero Rosell, Pablo Fosalba, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, Anna Franckowiak, Marek Kowalski, J. De Vicente, Enrique Gaztanaga, E. Suchyta, E. Swann, T. M. C. Abbott, N. Kuropatkin, M. Sako, Peter Doel, Daniel Gruen, E. J. Sanchez, E. Buckley-Geer, Richard Kessler, H. T. Diehl, J. Carretero, R. Cawthon, B. P. Thomas, Juan Garcia-Bellido, D. W. Gerdes, Ramon Miquel, S. Avila, K. N. Neilson, E. Bertin, F. Paz-Chinchón, Robert Morgan, Antonella Palmese, Daniel Scolnic, Christopher J. Miller, Molly E. C. Swanson, Keith Bechtol, M. Costanzi, A. K. Vivas, S. Serrano, K. Herner, Robert A. Gruendl, Michael Schubnell, David Brooks, Felipe Menanteau, Gregory Tarle, K. Honscheid |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DES, Morgan, R., Bechtol, K., Kessler, R., Sako, M., Herner, K., Doctor, Z., Scolnic, D., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Franckowiak, A., Neilson, K. N., Kowalski, M., Palmese, A., Swann, E., Thomas, B. P., Vivas, A. K., Drlica-Wagner, A., Garcia, A., Brout, D., Paz-Chinchon, F., Neilsen, E., Diehl, H. T., Soares-Santos, M., Abbott, T. M. C., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Rosell, A. C., Kind, M. C., Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., Costanzi, M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Weller, J. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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collapse [supernova]
Explosive material neutrino: energy: high supernova: collapse Optical observation FOS: Physical sciences 01 natural sciences neutrino: flux IceCube particle source [neutrino] 0103 physical sciences Core-collapse supernovae optical energy: high [neutrino] 010306 general physics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Neutrino astronomy Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) background Astronomy Astronomy and Astrophysics neutrino: particle source flux [neutrino] redshift 3. Good health messenger Space and Planetary Science efficiency ddc:520 Neutrino Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] |
| Zdroj: | The astrophysical journal / 1 883(2), 125-(2019). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab3a45 Astrophys.J. Astrophys.J., 2019, 883, pp.125. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ab3a45⟩ |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3a45 |
| Popis: | In this work, we investigate the likelihood of association between realtime, TeV-PeV energy neutrino alerts from IceCube and optical counterparts in the form of core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe). The optical follow-up of IceCube alerts requires two main instrumental capabilities: (1) deep imaging, since 73\% of neutrinos would come from CC SNe at redshifts $z > 0.3$, and (2) a large field of view (FoV), since typical IceCube muon neutrino pointing accuracy is on the order of $\sim1$~deg. With Blanco/DECam ($gri$ to 24th magnitude and $2.2$~deg diameter FoV), we performed a triggered optical follow-up observation of two IceCube alerts, IC170922A and IC171106A on $\sim6$~nights during the $\sim3$~weeks following each alert. For the IC170922A (IC171106A) follow-up observations, we expect that 12.1\% (9.5\%) of coincident CC SNe at $z \lesssim 0.3$ are detectable, and that on average, 0.23 (0.07) unassociated SNe in the neutrino 90\% containment regions also pass our selection criteria. We find two candidate CC SNe that are temporally coincident with the neutrino alerts in the FoV, but none in the 90\% containment regions, which is statistically consistent with expected rates of background CC SNe for these observations. If CC SNe are the dominant source of TeV-PeV neutrinos, we would expect an excess of coincident CC SNe to be detectable at the $3\sigma$ confidence level using DECam observations similar to those of this work for $\sim60$ ($\sim200$) neutrino alerts with (without) redshift information for all candidates. Comment: Published in ApJ |
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