A FIRST SEARCH FOR COINCIDENT GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS USING LIGO, VIRGO AND ANTARES DATA FROM 2007

Document #:

LIGO-P1200006-v13

Document type:

P - Publications

Abstract:

We present the results of the first search for gravitational wave bursts associated with high energy neutrinos. Together, these messengers could reveal new, hidden sources that are not observed by conventional photon astronomy, particularly at high energy. Our search uses neutrinos detected by the underwater neutrino telescope ANTARES in its 5 line configuration during the period January - September 2007, which coincided with the fifth LIGO science run and first Virgo science run. The LIGO-Virgo data is then analysed for candidate gravitational-wave signals coincident in time and direction with the neutrino events. No significant coincident events were observed. We place limits on the density of joint high energy neutrino - gravitational wave emission events in the local universe, and compare them with merger and core-collapse events.

Files in Document:

• LV-ANTARES_to_be_submitted_to_arXiv.pdf (1.4 MB)
• FIG 1 Curves of sensitivities (FIG 1 Curves of sensitivities.txt, 7.8 MB)
• FIG 4 Skymap (FIG 2 Skymap.txt, 8.7 kB)
• FIG 5 Binomial Test for LH (FIG 5 Binomial Test for LF.txt, 2.6 kB)
• FIG 6 Binomial Test for HF (FIG 6 Binomial Test for HF.txt, 735 bytes)
• FIG 7 ExclusionDistances for Low-Frequency search. (FIG 7 ExclusionDistances for Low-Frequency search.txt, 7.1 kB)
• FIG 8 ExclusionDistances for High-Frequency search (FIG 8 ExclusionDistances for High-Frequency search.txt, 975 bytes)
• tables (paper_table.pdf, 103.5 kB)

Topics:

• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger

Author Groups:

• LVC

Publication Information:

The paper is the first joint paper between LIGO-Virgo Collaborations and ANTARES Collaboration

Paper synopsis for students/teachers/public:
http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5LV_ANTARES/

arXiv posting: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3018