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Swift follow-up of IceCube triggers, and implications for the Advanced-LIGO era.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 4/11/2015, Vol. 448 Issue 3, p2210-2223. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Between 2011 March and 2014 August Swift responded to 20 triggers from the IceCube neutrino observatory, observing the IceCube 50 per cent confidence error circle in X-rays, typically within 5 h of the trigger. No confirmed counterpart has been detected. We describe the Swift follow-up strategy and data analysis and present the results of the campaign. We discuss the challenges of distinguishing the X-ray counterpart to a neutrino trigger from serendipitous uncatalogued X-ray sources in the error circle, and consider the implications of our results for future strategies for multimessenger astronomy, with particular reference to the follow-up of gravitational wave triggers from the advanced-era detectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *X-ray astronomy
*DATA analysis
*GRAVITATIONAL waves
*ASTROPHYSICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 448
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 110198812
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv136