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Follow-up of Astrophysical Transients in Real Time with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
- Source :
- The Astrophysical Journal. 910:4
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Astronomical Society, 2021.
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Abstract
- In multi-messenger astronomy, rapid investigation of interesting transients is imperative. As an observatory with a 4$\pi$ steradian field of view and $\sim$99\% uptime, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility to follow up transients, and to provide valuable insight for other observatories and inform their observing decisions. Since 2016, IceCube has been using low-latency data to rapidly respond to interesting astrophysical events reported by the multi-messenger observational community. Here, we describe the pipeline used to perform these follow up analyses and provide a summary of the 58 analyses performed as of July 2020. We find no significant signal in the first 58 analyses performed. The pipeline has helped inform various electromagnetic observing strategies, and has constrained neutrino emission from potential hadronic cosmic accelerators.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures
- Subjects :
- High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
astro-ph.HE
Physics
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Neutrino astronomy
High energy astrophysics
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Space and Planetary Science
Observatory
0103 physical sciences
Neutrino
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
astro-ph.IM
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15384357 and 0004637X
- Volume :
- 910
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....90dcdb018b8bbd11c83a07ccdb74a1be