SEARCH FOR PROMPT NEUTRINO EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS WITH ICECUBE
By I. C. M. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, J. Aguilar, M. Ahlers, M. Ahrens, D. Altmann, T. Anderson, C. Arguelles, T. Arlen and 292 more. Astrophysical Journal, 2014
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We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible with the atmospheric neutrino background, was found in coincidence with one of the 506 observed bursts. Although GRBs have been proposed as candidate sources for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, our limits on the neutrino flux disfavor much of the parameter space for the latest models. We also find that no more than ∼1% of the recently observed astrophysical neutrino flux consists of prompt emission from GRBs that are potentially observable by existing satellites.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- Extending the Search for Muon Neutrinos Coincident with Gamma-Ray Bursts in IceCube Data (2017, methodology): “Combined with the previously published four-year northern hemisphere track (Aartsen et al. 2015d) and three-year all-sky cascade(Aartsen et al. 2016a) analyses, the stacked analysis has a final significance of p=0.60, consistent with the background-only hypothesis.”
- IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe (2020, background): “Similar to blazars, the non-detection of neutrinos in spatial and temporal coincidence with GRBs over many years has placed a strict upper bound of 1% for the maximum contribution from observed GRBs to the diffuse flux observed by IceCube [31].”
- OBSERVATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A COSMIC MUON NEUTRINO FLUX FROM THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE USING SIX YEARS OF ICECUBE DATA (2016, methodology): “With this result we have further established the observation of an astrophysical neutrino signal (Aartsen et al. 2013a, 2014b, 2015c) in a second, largely independent detection channel.”