A Search for IceCube Sub-TeV Neutrinos Correlated with Gravitational-wave Events Detected By LIGO/Virgo

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, SK Agarwalla, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, JM Alameddine…
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023iopscience.iop.org
The LIGO/Virgo collaboration published the catalogs GWTC-1, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3
containing candidate gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during its runs O1, O2, and
O3. These GW events can be possible sites of neutrino emission. In this paper, we present a
search for neutrino counterparts of 90 GW candidates using IceCube DeepCore, the low-
energy infill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The search is conducted using an
unbinned maximum likelihood method, within a time window of 1000s, and uses the spatial …
Abstract
The LIGO/Virgo collaboration published the catalogs GWTC-1, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3 containing candidate gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during its runs O1, O2, and O3. These GW events can be possible sites of neutrino emission. In this paper, we present a search for neutrino counterparts of 90 GW candidates using IceCube DeepCore, the low-energy infill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The search is conducted using an unbinned maximum likelihood method, within a time window of 1000s, and uses the spatial and timing information from the GW events. The neutrinos used for the search have energies ranging from a few GeV to several tens of TeV. We do not find any significant emission of neutrinos, and place upper limits on the flux and the isotropic-equivalent energy emitted in low-energy neutrinos. We also conduct a binomial test to search for source populations potentially contributing to neutrino emission. We report a nondetection of a significant neutrino-source population with this test.
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