All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope

A. Albert (1) , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J.J. Aubert (2) , T. Avgitas (3) , B. Baret (3) , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa (4) , B. Belhorma , V. Bertin (2) , S. Biagi , R. Bormuth , S. Bourret (3) , M.C. Bouwhuis , H. Brânzaş , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner (2) , J. Busto (2) , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr (2) , S. Celli , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , J.A.B. Coelho (3) , A. Coleiro (3) , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini (2) , P. Coyle (2) , A. Creusot (3) , A.F. Díaz , A. Deschamps (5) , G. de Bonis , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud (3, 6) , D. Dornic (2) , D. Drouhin (1) , T. Eberl , I. El Bojaddaini , N. El Khayati , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer (2) , A. Ettahiri , F. Fassi , I. Felis , L.A. Fusco , P. Gay (3, 7) , V. Giordano , H. Glotin (8, 9) , T. Grégoire (3) , R. Gracia Ruiz (3) , K. Graf , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A.J. Heijboer , Y. Hello (5) , J.J. Hernández-Rey , J. Hössl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , G. Illuminati , C.W. James , M. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kiessling , A. Kouchner (3, 9) , M. Kreter , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy (2) , C. Lachaud (3) , R. Lahmann , D. Lefèvre (10) , E. Leonora , M. Lotze , S. Loucatos (11, 3) , M. Marcelin (4) , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J.A. Martínez-Mora , R. Mele , K. Melis , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , S. Navas , E. Nezri (4) , M. Organokov (12) , G.E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier (12) , L. Quinn (2) , C. Racca (1) , G. Riccobene , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Saldaña , I. Salvadori (2) , D.F.E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , F. Schüssler (11) , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk (11) , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , A. Trovato , D. Turpin (2) , C. Tönnis , B. Vallage (11, 3) , V. van Elewyck (3, 9) , F. Versari , D. Vivolo , A. Vizzoca , J. Wilms , J.D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

1 GRPHE - Groupe de Recherche en Physique des Hautes Energies
2 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
3 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
4 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
5 GEOAZUR 7329 - Géoazur
6 UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11
7 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
8 LSIS - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes
9 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
10 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
11 DPhP - Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP)
12 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4th, 2017. An all-sky high-energy neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the Antares neutrino telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within $\pm 500$  s around the GW event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of $\pm 3$  months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than $\sim {1.2}\times 10^{{55}}$  erg for a $E^{-2}$ spectrum. This constraint is valid in the energy range corresponding to the 5–95% quantiles of the neutrino flux [3.2 TeV, 3.6 PeV], if the GW emitter was below the Antares horizon at the alert time.

Mots clés: energy: high; neutrino: energy; neutrino: detector; black hole: coalescence; gravitational radiation: direct detection; gravitational radiation detector; gravitational radiation; ANTARES; LIGO

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi, G. Anton, M. Ardid, et al.. All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope. Eur.Phys.J.C, 2017, 77 (12), pp.911. ⟨10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5451-z⟩. ⟨hal-01703764⟩