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

Aartsen, M. G. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Aguilar, J. A. and Ahlers, M. and Ahrens, M. and Altmann, D. and Anderson, T. and Arguelles, C. and Arlen, T. C. and Auffenberg, J. and Bai, X. and Barwick, S. W. and Baum, V. and Beatty, J. J. and Tjus, J. Becker and Becker, K. -H. and BenZvi, S. and Berghaus, P. and Berley, D. and Bernardini, E. and Bernhard, A. and Besson, D. Z. and Binder, G. and Bindig, D. and Bissok, M. and Blaufuss, E. and Blumenthal, J. and Boersma, D. J. and Bohm, C. and Bojtos, István Péter and Debreczeni, Gergely and Endrőczi, Gábor and Frei, Zsolt and Gondán, László and Nagy-Egri, Máté Ferenc and Rácz, István and Raffai, Péter and Vasúth, Mátyás Zsolt (2014) Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 90 (10). ISSN 2470-0010

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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 Mc 2 at ∼ 150 Hz with ∼ 60 ms duration, and highenergy 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 gravitationalwave detector era.

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