Murchison Widefield Array Limits on Radio Emission from ANTARES Neutrino Events
- Creators
- Croft, S.
- Kaplan, D. L.
- Tingay, S. J.
- Murphy, T.
- Bell, M. E.
- Rowlinson, A.
- Adrian-Martinez, S.
- Ageron, M.
- Albert, A.
- Andre, M.
- Anton, G.
- Ardid, M.
- Aubert, J. -J.
- Avgitas, T.
- Baret, B.
- Barrios-Marti, J.
- Basa, S.
- Bertin, V.
- Biagi, S.
- Bormuth, R.
- Bouwhuis, M. C.
- Bruijn, R.
- Brunner, J.
- Busto, J.
- Capone, A.
- Caramete, L.
- Carr, J.
- Chiarusi, T.
- Circella, M.
- Coleiro, A.
- Coniglione, R.
- Costantini, H.
- Coyle, P.
- Creusot, A.
- Dekeyser, I.
- Deschamps, A.
- de Bonis, G.
- Distefano, C.
- Donzaud, C.
- Dornic, D.
- Drouhin, D.
- Eberl, T.
- Bojaddaini, I. El
- Elsasser, D.
- Enzenhofer, A.
- Fehn, K.
- Felis, I.
- Fermani, P.
- Fusco, L. A.
- Galata, S.
- Gay, P.
- Geisselsoder, S.
- Geyer, K.
- Giordano, V.
- Gleixner, A.
- Glotin, Hervé
- Gracia-Ruiz, R.
- Graf, K.
- Hallmann, S.
- van Haren, H.
- Heijboer, A. J.
- Hello, Y.
- Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
- Hossl, J.
- Hofestadt, J.
- Hugon, C.
- James, C. W
- de Jong, M.
- Kadler, M.
- Kalekin, O.
- Katz, U.
- Kiessling, D.
- Kooijman, P.
- Kouchner, A.
- Kreter, M.
- Kreykenbohm, I.
- Kulikovskiy, V.
- Lachaud, C.
- Lahmann, R.
- Lefèvre, Dominique
- Leonora, E.
- Loucatos, S.
- Marcelin, M.
- Margiotta, A.
- Marinelli, A.
- Martinez-Mora, J. A.
- Mathieu, A.
- Michael, T.
- Migliozzi, P.
- Moussa, A.
- Mueller, C.
- Nezri, E.
- Pavalas, G. E.
- Pellegrino, C.
- Perrina, C.
- Piattelli, P.
- Popa, V.
- Pradier, T.
- Racca, C.
- Riccobene, G.
- Roensch, K.
- Saldana, M.
- Samtleben, D. F. E.
- Sanchez-Losa, A.
- Sanguineti, M.
- Sapienza, P.
- Schmid, J.
- Schnabel, J.
- Schussler, F.
- Seitz, T.
- Sieger, C.
- Spurio, M.
- Steijger, J. J. M.
- Stolarczyk, T.
- Taiuti, M.
- Tamburini, C.
- Trovato, A.
- Tselengidou, M.
- Turpin, D.
- Tonnis, C.
- Vallage, B.
- Vallee, C.
- van Elewyck, V.
- Visser, E.
- Vivolo, D.
- Wagner, S.
- Wilms, J.
- Zornoza, J. D.
- Zuniga, J.
- Klotz, A.
- Boer, M.
- van Suu, A. Le
- Akerlof, C.
- Zheng, W.
- Others:
- Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) ; Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- MWA and ANTARES and TAROT and ROTSE Collaborations
Description
We present a search, using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), for electromagnetic counterparts to two candidate high energy neutrino events detected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope in 2013 November and 2014 March. These events were selected by ANTARES because they are consistent, within 0.4 degrees, with the locations of galaxies within 20 Mpc of Earth. Using MWA archival data at frequencies between 118 and 182 MHz, taken ~20 days prior to, at the same time as, and up to a year after the neutrino triggers, we look for transient or strongly variable radio sources consistent with the neutrino positions. No such counterparts are detected, and we set a 5 sigma upper limit for low-frequency radio emission of ~1E37 erg/s for progenitors at 20 Mpc. If the neutrino sources are instead not in nearby galaxies, but originate in binary neutron star coalescences, our limits place the progenitors at z > 0.2. While it is possible, due to the high background from atmospheric neutrinos, that neither event is astrophysical, the MWA observations are nevertheless among the first to follow up neutrino candidates in the radio, and illustrate the promise of wide-field instruments like MWA to detect electromagnetic counterparts to such events.
Abstract
7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Abstract
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Additional details
- URL
- https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-01290180
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:in2p3-01290180v1
- Origin repository
- UNICA