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A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino Alerts
The Astrophysical journal, v 883(2), 125
26 Sep 2019
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Abstract
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 ∼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 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 confidence level using DECam observations similar to those of this work for ∼60 (∼200) neutrino alerts with (without) redshift information for all candidates.
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- Title
- A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino Alerts
- Creators
- R Morgan - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation Data Science Fellowship Program, USAK Bechtol - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USAR Kessler - University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL 60637, USAM Sako - University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAK Herner - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAZ Doctor - University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL 60637, USAD Scolnic - University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL 60637, USAI Sevilla-Noarbe - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, SpainA Franckowiak - Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, GermanyK. N Neilson - Drexel University Department of Physics, 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAM Kowalski - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15735 Zeuthen, GermanyA Palmese - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAE Swann - University of Portsmouth Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth, PO1 3FX, UKB. P Thomas - University of PortsmouthA. K Vivas - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, ChileA Drlica-Wagner - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAD Brout - University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAF Paz-Chinchón - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USAE Neilsen - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAH. T Diehl - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAM Soares-Santos - Brandeis University , Physics Department, 415 South Street, Waltham MA 02453, USAT. M. C Abbott - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, ChileS Avila - Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, SpainE Bertin - Sorbonne Universités , UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, FranceD Brooks - UCL AustraliaE Buckley-Geer - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAA. Carnero Rosell - Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia-LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, BrazilM. Carrasco Kind - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Astronomy, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USAJ Carretero - Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), SpainR Cawthon - University of Wisconsin-Madison Physics Department, 2320 Chamberlin Hall, 1150 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706-1390, USAM Costanzi - Universitäts-Sternwarte , Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, GermanyJ De Vicente - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, SpainS Desai - Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, IndiaP Doel - University College London Department of Physics & Astronomy, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UKB Flaugher - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAP Fosalba - Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, 08193 Barcelona, SpainJ Frieman - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAJ García-Bellido - Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, SpainE Gaztanaga - Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, 08193 Barcelona, SpainD. W Gerdes - University of Michigan Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAD Gruen - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USAR. A Gruendl - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Astronomy, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USAJ Gschwend - Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, BrazilG Gutierrez - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAD. L Hollowood - Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USAK Honscheid - The Ohio State University Department of Physics, Columbus, OH 43210, USAD. J James - Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USAN Kuropatkin - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAM Lima - Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP, 05314-970, BrazilM. A. G Maia - Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ-20921-400, BrazilJ. L Marshall - Texas A&M University George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, College Station, TX 77843, USAF Menanteau - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Astronomy, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USAC. J Miller - University of Michigan Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAR Miquel - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, SpainA. A Plazas - Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USAE Sanchez - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, SpainV Scarpine - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USAM Schubnell - University of Michigan Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAS Serrano - Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, 08193 Barcelona, SpainM Smith - University of SouthamptonF Sobreira - Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, BrazilE Suchyta - Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USAM. E. C Swanson - National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USAG Tarle - University of Michigan Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAV Vikram - Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USAA. R Walker - Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, ChileJ Weller - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Publication Details
- The Astrophysical journal, v 883(2), 125
- Publisher
- The American Astronomical Society
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- AST-1536171 / National Science Foundation AST-1138766 / National Science Foundation
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000488058300015
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85074161331
- Other Identifier
- 991019169587004721
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