SEARCH FOR HIGH-ENERGY MUON NEUTRINOS FROM THE 'NAKED-EYE' GRB 080319B WITH THE IceCube NEUTRINO TELESCOPE

Journal Article · Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721; COUNTRY OF INPUT: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)· OSTI ID:21319500

Abbasi, R; Aguilar, J A; Andeen, K; Baker, M ^[1]; Abdou, Y ^[2]; Abu-Zayyad, T ^[3]; Adams, J ^[4]; Ahlers, M ^[5]; Auffenberg, J; Becker, K -H ^[6]; Bai, X ^[7]; Barwick, S W ^[8]; Bay, R ^[9]; Alba, J L. Bazo; Benabderrahmane, M L; Berdermann, J ^[10]; Beattie, K ^[11]; Beatty, J J ^[12]; Bechet, S ^[13]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
2. Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
3. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI 54022 (United States)
4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch (New Zealand)
5. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP (United Kingdom)
6. Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal (Germany)
7. Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (United States)
8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 (United States)
9. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
10. DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen (Germany)
11. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
12. Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
13. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.1 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66 s and an extended window of about 300 s around the GRB, no excess was found above background. The 90% CL upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.5 x 10{sup -3} erg cm{sup -2} in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.

• OSTI ID: 21319500
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 701, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
DATA ANALYSIS
FIREBALL MODEL
MUON NEUTRINOS
PEV RANGE
TELESCOPES
TEV RANGE