Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

Authors

A. Albert, Universite de Haute Alsace
M. André, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
M. Anghinolfi, National Institute for Nuclear Physics
M. Ardid, Polytechnic University of Valencia
J. J. Aubert, Aix-Marseille Université
J. Aublin, Universite Paris 7
T. Avgitas, University of Valencia
Marc Favata, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Rodica Martin, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2017

Journal / Book Title

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Abstract

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merger of this binary was also recorded by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM), and the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), indicating particle acceleration by the source. The precise location of the event was determined by optical detections of emission following the merger. We searched for high-energy neutrinos from the merger in the GeV-EeV energy range using the Antares, IceCube, and Pierre Auger Observatories. No neutrinos directionally coincident with the source were detected within ± 500 s around the merger time. Additionally, no MeV neutrino burst signal was detected coincident with the merger. We further carried out an extended search in the direction of the source for high-energy neutrinos within the 14 day period following the merger, but found no evidence of emission. We used these results to probe dissipation mechanisms in relativistic outflows driven by the binary neutron star merger. The non-detection is consistent with model predictions of short GRBs observed at a large off-axis angle.

DOI

10.3847/2041-8213/aa9aed

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Ardid, M.; Aubert, J. J.; Aublin, J.; Avgitas, T.; Favata, Marc; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica, "Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory" (2017). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 127.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/127

Published Citation

Collaboration, L. S., & Collaboration, V. (2017). Search for high-energy neutrinos from binary neutron star merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850(L35), 18pp.