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Title: A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino Alerts

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In this work, we investigate the likelihood of association between real-time, neutrino alerts with teraelectronvolt to petaelectronvolt energy from IceCube and optical counterparts in the form of core-collapse supernovae (CC SNe). The optical follow-up of IceCube alerts requires two main instrumental capabilities: (1) deep imaging, since 73% of neutrinos would come from CC SNe at redshifts z > 0.3, and (2) a large field of view (FoV), since typical IceCube muon neutrino pointing accuracy is on the order of similar to 1 deg. With Blanco/DECam (gri to 24th magnitude and 2.2 deg diameter FoV), we performed a triggered optical follow-up observation of two IceCube alerts, IC170922A and IC171106A, on six. nights during the three weeks following each alert. For the IC170922A (IC171106A) follow-up observations, we expect that 12.1% (9.5%) of coincident CC SNe at z less than or similar to 0.3 are detectable, and that, on average, 0.23 (0.07) unassociated SNe in the neutrino 90% containment regions also pass our selection criteria. We find two candidate CC SNe that are temporally coincident with the neutrino alerts in the FoV, but none in the 90% containment regions, a result that is statistically consistent with expected rates of background CC SNe for these observations. If CC SNe are the dominant source of teraelectronvolt to petaelectronvolt neutrinos, we would expect an excess of coincident CC SNe to be detectable at the 3 sigma confidence level using DECam observations similar to those of this work for similar to 60 (similar to 200) neutrino alerts with (without) redshift information for all candidates.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Contributing Organization:
DES; IceCube Collaboration; DES Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515; AST-1138766; AST-1536171; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357; SC0019193
OSTI ID:
1568877
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1575121; OSTI ID: 1606730; OSTI ID: 1631963; OSTI ID: 1697999
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1907.07193; FERMILAB-PUB-19-342-AE; DES-2018-0408; oai:inspirehep.net:1744304; TRN: US2100325
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 883, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 7 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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