ANTARES constrains a blazar origin of two IceCube PeV neutrino events
| dc.contributor.author | Ojha, R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-27T14:07:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-27T14:07:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-03-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The source(s) of the neutrino excess reported by the IceCube Collaboration is unknown. The TANAMI Collaboration recently reported on the multiwavelength emission of six bright, variable blazars which are positionally coincident with two of the most energetic IceCube events. Objects like these are prime candidates to be the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays, and thus of associated neutrino emission. Aims. We present an analysis of neutrino emission from the six blazars using observations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. Methods. The standard methods of the ANTARES candidate list search are applied to six years of data to search for an excess of muons – and hence their neutrino progenitors – from the directions of the six blazars described by the TANAMI Collaboration, and which are possibly associated with two IceCube events. Monte Carlo simulations of the detector response to both signal and background particle fluxes are used to estimate the sensitivity of this analysis for different possible source neutrino spectra. A maximum-likelihood approach, using the reconstructed energies and arrival directions of through-going muons, is used to identify events with properties consistent with a blazar origin. Results. Both blazars predicted to be the most neutrino-bright in the TANAMI sample (1653−329 and 1714−336) have a signal flux fitted by the likelihood analysis corresponding to approximately one event. This observation is consistent with the blazar-origin hypothesis of the IceCube event IC 14 for a broad range of blazar spectra, although an atmospheric origin cannot be excluded. No ANTARES events are observed from any of the other four blazars, including the three associated with IceCube event IC20. This excludes at a 90% confidence level the possibility that this event was produced by these blazars unless the neutrino spectrum is flatter than −2.4. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors would like to thank A. Kappes for helpful discussions regarding the IceCube analysis. The ANTARES authors acknowledge the financial support of the funding agencies: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l’énegie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Commission Européenne (FEDER fund and Marie Curie Program), Région Alsace (contrat CPER), Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Département du Var and Ville de La Seyne-sur-Mer, France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Nederlandse organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), the Netherlands; Council of the President of the Russian Federation for young scientists and leading scientific schools supporting grants, Russia; National Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS), Romania; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Prometeo of Generalitat Valenciana and MultiDark, Spain; Agence de l’Oriental and CNRST, Morocco. We also acknowledge the technical support of Ifremer, AIM and Foselev Marine for the sea operation and the CC-IN2P3 for the computing facilities. The TANAMI authors acknowledge support and partial funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant WI 860-10/1 (TANAMI) and GRK 1147, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt grant 50 OR 1311/50 OR 1303/50 OR 1401, the Spanish MINECO project AYA2012- 38491-C02-01, the Generalitat Valenciana project PROMETEOII/2014/057, the COST MP0905 action “Black Holes in a Violent Universe” and the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics (HAP) | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2015/04/aa25670-15/aa25670-15.html | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 6 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2b0e4-aowo | |
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| dc.title | ANTARES constrains a blazar origin of two IceCube PeV neutrino events | en_US |
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