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Title: Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). Here, we introduce a high-energy neutrino follow-up search for the second gravitational wave event, GW151226, as well as for gravitational wave candidate LVT151012. We find 2 and 4 neutrino candidates detected by IceCube, and 1 and 0 detected by ANTARES, within ±500 s around the respective gravitational wave signals, consistent with the expected background rate. None of these neutrino candidates are discovered to be directionally coincident with GW151226 or LVT151012. We use non-detection to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW151226 adopting the GW event's 3D localization, to less than 2×1051₋2×1054 erg.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Organization:
ANTARES Collaboration; IceCube Collaboration; LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration
OSTI ID:
1544381
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1369491
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 96, Issue 2; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 37 works
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