1. Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D
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IceCube Collaboration, Abbasi, R., Abdou, Y., Abu-Zayyad, T., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Andeen, K., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Baker, M., Barwick, S. W., Bay, R., Alba, J. L. Bazo, Beattie, K., Beatty, J. J., Bechet, S., Becker, J. K., Becker, K. -H., Benabderrahmane, M. L., BenZvi, S., Berdermann, J., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bertrand, D., Besson, D. Z., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohm, C., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Buitink, S., Carson, M., Chirkin, D., Christy, B., Clem, J., Clevermann, F., Cohen, S., Colnard, C., Cowen, D. F., D'Agostino, M. V., Danninger, M., Davis, J. C., De Clercq, C., Demirors, L., Depaepe, O., Descamps, F., Desiati, P., de Vries-Uiterweerd, G., DeYoung, T., D\?iaz-Velez, J. C., Dierckxsens, M., Dreyer, J., Dumm, J. P., Duvoort, M. R., Ehrlich, R., Eisch, J., Ellsworth, R. W., Engdegård, O., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Foerster, M. M., Fox, B. D., Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Geisler, M., 9, L. Gerhardt, Gladstone, L., Glusenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Goodman, J. A., Grant, D., Griesel, T., Groß, A., Grullon, S., Gurtner, M., Ha, C., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Han, K., Hanson, K., Helbing, K., Herquet, P., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Hubert, D., Huelsnitz, W., Hülß, J. -P., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobsen, J., Japaridze, G. S., Johansson, H., Joseph, J. M., Kampert, K. -H., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kelley, J. L., Kemming, N., Kenny, P., Kiryluk, J., Kislat, F., Klein, S. R., Kohne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Köpke, L., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Kowarik, T., Krasberg, M., Krings, T., Kroll, G., Kuehn, K., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lafebre, S., Laihem, K., Landsman, H., Larson, M. J., Lauer, R., Lehmann, R., Lunemann, J., Madsen, J., Majumdar, P., Marotta, A., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., Matusik, M., Meagher, K., Merck, M., Mészaros, P., Meures, T., Middell, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Movit, S. M., Nahnhauer, R., Nam, J. W., Naumann, U., Nießen, P., Nygren, D. R., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Olivo, M., O'Murchadha, A., Ono, M., Panknin, S., Paul18, L., Heros, C. Perez de los, Petrovic, J., Piegsa, A., Pieloth, D., Porrata, R., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Prikockis, M., Przybylski, G. T., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Ribordy, M., Rizzo, A., Rodrigues, J. P., Roth, P., Rothmaier, F., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Rutledge, D., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Sander, H. -G., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Schlenstedt, S., Schmidt, T., Schukraft, A., Schultes, A., Schulz, O., Schunck, M., Seckel, D., Semburg, B., Seo, S. H., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Silvestri, A., Singh, K., Slipak, A., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stephens, G., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stoyanov, S., 20, E. A. Strahler, Straszheim16, T., Sullivan16, G. W., Swillens, Q., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tarasova, O., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Turcan, D., van Eijndhoven, N., Vandenbroucke, J., Van Overloop, A., van Santen, J., Voge, M., Voigt, B., Walck, C., Waldenmaier, T., Wallraff, M., Walter, M., Weaver, Ch., Wendt1, C., Westerhoff, S., Whitehorn, N., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wikstrom, G., Williams, D. R., Wischnewski, R., Wissing, H., Wolf, M., Woschnagg, K., Xu, C., Xu, X. W., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., and Zarzhitsky, P.
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TELESCOPE ,supernovae ,Supernova ,MUON NEUTRINOS ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,SN 2008D ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Spectral line ,Transient 080109 ,GAMMA-RAY BURST ,individual: SN 2008D [supernovae] ,Astrophysical jet ,ICECUBE DETECTOR ,0103 physical sciences ,Muon neutrino ,individual ,010306 general physics ,Telescope ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,SUPERNOVA ,Cherenkov radiation ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Icecube Detector ,Muon Neutrinos ,supernovae: individual: SN 2008D ,neutrinos ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Science General ,Type II supernova ,Gamma-Ray Burst ,MODEL ,Neutrino detector ,Jet ,JET ,astroparticle physics ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,ddc:520 ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,TRANSIENT 080109 ,Neutrino ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Model - Abstract
SN 2008D, a core collapse supernova at a distance of 27 Mpc, was serendipitously discovered by the Swift satellite through an associated X-ray flash. Core collapse supernovae have been observed in association with long gamma-ray bursts and X-ray flashes and a physical connection is widely assumed. This connection could imply that some core collapse supernovae possess mildly relativistic jets in which high-energy neutrinos are produced through proton-proton collisions. The predicted neutrino spectra would be detectable by Cherenkov neutrino detectors like IceCube. A search for a neutrino signal in temporal and spatial correlation with the observed X-ray flash of SN 2008D was conducted using data taken in 2007-2008 with 22 strings of the IceCube detector. Events were selected based on a boosted decision tree classifier trained with simulated signal and experimental background data. The classifier was optimized to the position and a "soft jet" neutrino spectrum assumed for SN 2008D. Using three search windows placed around the X-ray peak, emission time scales from 100 - 10000 s were probed. No events passing the cuts were observed in agreement with the signal expectation of 0.13 events. Upper limits on the muon neutrino flux from core collapse supernovae were derived for different emission time scales and the principal model parameters were constrained., 8 pages
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- 2011