SNEWS: the SuperNova Early Warning System

By P. Antonioli, R. Fienberg, F. Fleurot, Y. Fukuda, W. Fulgione, A. Habig, J. Heise, A. McDonald, Corrinne Mills, T. Namba and 11 more. 2004

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This paper provides a technical description of the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS), an international network of experiments with the goal of providing an early warning of a galactic supernova.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment (2015, unknown): “SNO+ is preparing to participate in the inter–experiment Supernova Early Warning System (SNEWS) [75], which has the goal to provide a fast and reliable alert using the coincident observation of burst signals in several operating detectors.”
• Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF (2015, background): “e-of-flightanalysis)wouldbe especiallyinteresting[160,161,162,163]. Thesupernovaneutrinoburstispromptwithrespecttotheelectromagneticsignalandtherefore canbeexploitedtoprovideanearlywarningtoastronomers[164,165]. Additionally,aliquidargon signal [166] is expected to provide some pointing information, ”
• Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects (2015, background): “The supernova neutrino burst is prompt with respect to the electromagnetic signal and therefore can be exploited to provide an early warning to astronomers [164, 165].”
• The Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Exploring Fundamental Symmetries of the Universe (2013, background): “Because the neutrinos emerge promptly after core collapse, in contrast to the electromagnetic radiation which must beat its way out of the stellar envelope, an observation could provide a prompt supernova alert [116,117], allowing astronomers to find the supernova in early light turn-on stages, whic”
• IceCube sensitivity for low-energy neutrinos from nearby supernovae (2011, unknown): “Since 2009 it supersedes AMANDA in the SNEWS network.”
• New experimental approaches in the search for axion-like particles (2018, background): “Pointing the helioscope towards Betelgeuse in time for the burst is in principle possible due to the early warning (∼ few days) due to the thermal neutrinos from the silicon burning phase preceding core collapse, that could be detectable by the neutrino detectors associated in the SuperNova Early Wa”
• The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Instrumentation and Online Systems (2016, background): “7), and the Supernova Neutrino Early Warning System (SNEWS) [63] is notified.”
• IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe (2020, background): “Therefore it is a participant in the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) [184], a network of neutrino detectors monitoring the neutrino sky for CCSNe.”
• DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector (2016, unknown): “Thus, with O(100) neutrino events from a Galactic supernova, DARWIN will be a supernova neutrino detector that can contribute to the Supernova Early Warning System SNEWS [91].”
• OBSERVING THE NEXT GALACTIC SUPERNOVA (2013, methodology): “In order to avoid false alarms and potential embarrassment of the experimental collaborations, by binding agreement, no information whatsoever is ever released unless the SNEWS coincidence threshold determined by the number of participating detectors is reached.”
• Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), Far Detector Technical Design Report, Volume II: DUNE Physics (2020, background): “The supernova neutrino burst is prompt with respect to the electromagnetic signal and therefore can be exploited to provide an early warning to astronomers [273, 274].”