Search for Supernova Neutrino Bursts at Super-Kamiokande

By M. Ikeda, A. Takeda, Y. Fukuda, M. Vagins, K. Abe, T. Iida, K. Ishihara, J. Kameda, Y. Koshio, A. Minamino and 133 more. 2007

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We report the results of a search for neutrino bursts from supernova explosions using the Super-Kamiokande detector. Super-Kamiokande is sensitive to core-collapse supernova explosions via observation of their neutrino emissions. The expected number of events comprising such a burst is ~104, and the average energy of the neutrinos is in the range of a few tens of MeV for a core-collapse supernova explosion at a typical distance in our galaxy (10 kpc); this strong signal means that the detection efficiency anywhere within our galaxy and well past the Magellanic Clouds should be 100%. We examined a data set taken from 1996 May to 2001 July, and from 2002 December to 2005 October, corresponding to 2589.2 live days. However, there is no evidence of such a supernova explosion during the data-taking period. The 90% C.L. upper limit on the rate of core-collapse supernova explosions out to distances of 100 kpc is found to be 0.32 SN yr-1.

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A Survey About Nothing: Monitoring a Million Supergiants for Failed Supernovae (2008, background): “3 (Beacom et al. 2001, Alekseev & Alekseeva 2002, Ikeda et al. 2007) sets a weak upper bound on all core collapses in the Galaxy of <∼ 12 events per century (95% confidence) as compared to the rate of roughly 1 SN per century (e.g., van den Bergh & Tammann 1991; Cappellaro et al. 1999).”
OBSERVING THE NEXT GALACTIC SUPERNOVA (2013, methodology): “Combining the upper limit placed by the non-detection of SN neutrinos over ∼ 30 years of measurements by neutrino detection experiments (Alexeyev & Alexeyeva 2002; Ikeda et al. 2007) of .”
The search for failed supernovae with the Large Binocular Telescope: first candidates (2014, background): “Adams et al. (2013) combined the observed SN rate of the galaxy with the absence of any neutrino detections (Alexeyev & Alexeyeva 2002; Ikeda et al. 2007) of a failed SN over the last ∼3 decades to estimate that f ≤ 0.69 at 90% confidence.”
IceCube sensitivity for low-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae (2011, background): “Currently, Super-Kamiokande (Fukuda et al., 2002; Ikeda et al., 2007), LVD (Aglietta et al., 2002), Borexino (Alimonti et al., 2009) and IceCube (Ahrens et al., 2004) contribute to SNEWS, with a number of other neutrino and gravitational wave detectors planning to join in the near future.”