ANTARES search for neutrino flares from the direction of radio-bright blazars
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Defense date2021
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Abstract
In 2017, a high-energy muon neutrino detected by IceCube was found positionally coincident with the direction of a known blazar, TXS 0506+056, in a state of enhanced 훾-ray emission. Soon after, IceCube reported a compelling evidence for an earlier neutrino flare from the same direction found in the archival data, this time not accompanied by any observed electromagnetic activity. The IceCube findings suggest searching for flaring neutrino emissions from astrophysical sources, not necessarily accompanied by flares detected in y-rays. The analysis presented in this contribution scans the events collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope in 13 years of data taking in a search for clustering in space and time. The analysis method is based on an unbinned maximum likelihood approach. Generic Gaussian and Box profiles are assumed for the signal time emission, with both the central time and duration of the flare being free parameters in the likelihood maximization. The time-dependent approach is applied to the catalog of radio-bright blazars for which a promising directional correlation with IceCube muon tracks was recently reported [ApJ 894 (2020) 101, ApJ 908 (2021) 157].
CitationAlves, S. [et al.]. ANTARES search for neutrino flares from the direction of radio-bright blazars. A: International Cosmic Ray Conference. "37th International Cosmic Ray Conference: ICRC2021: 12-23 July 2021, Berlin, Germany-online". Ithaca, NY: arXiv, 2021, ISBN 18248039.
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Publisher versionhttps://pos.sissa.it/395/972
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