Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCub

Aartsen, M. G., Adams, Thomas, Fairhurst, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1961, Hamman, Mark, Hopkins, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1535-3848, MacDonald, Erin, Ohme, Frank, Predoi, Valeriu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-6578, Puerrer, Michael, Sathyaprakash, Bangalore S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-7586, Schutz, Bernard Frederick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-6983, Sutton, Patrick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-3922, Tiwari, Vaibhav and Williamson, Andrew R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7627-8688 2014. Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCub. Physical Review D Particles and Fields 90 (10) , 102002. 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.102002

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Abstract

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint operation between 2007–2010. These include parts of the 2005–2007 run and the 2009–2010 run for LIGO-Virgo, and IceCube’s observation periods with 22, 59 and 79 strings. We find no significant coincident events, and use the search results to derive upper limits on the rate of joint sources for a range of source emission parameters. For the optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of 10−2  M⊙c2 at ∼150  Hz with ∼60  ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of 1051  erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below 1.6×10−2  Mpc−3 yr−1. We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Additional Information:	Please follow the link to the article page for a full list of authors.
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	0556-2821
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 March 2018
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2024 05:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110329

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