A search for time-dependent astrophysical neutrino emission with IceCube data from 2012 to 2017
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2021-06-15 v1
Abstract
High-energy neutrinos are unique messengers of the high-energy universe, tracing the processes of cosmic-ray acceleration. This paper presents analyses focusing on time-dependent neutrino point-source searches. A scan of the whole sky, making no prior assumption about source candidates, is performed, looking for a space and time clustering of high-energy neutrinos in data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory between 2012 and 2017. No statistically significant evidence for a time-dependent neutrino signal is found with this search during this period since all results are consistent with the background expectation. Within this study period, the blazar 3C 279, showed strong variability, inducing a very prominent gamma-ray flare observed in 2015 June. This event motivated a dedicated study of the blazar, which consists of searching for a time-dependent neutrino signal correlated with the gamma-ray emission. No evidence for a time-dependent signal is found. Hence, an upper limit on the neutrino fluence is derived, allowing us to constrain a hadronic emission model.
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@article{arxiv.2012.01079,
title = {A search for time-dependent astrophysical neutrino emission with IceCube data from 2012 to 2017},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and C. Alispach and A. A. Alves and N. M. Amin and R. An and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and I. Ansseau and G. Anton and C. Argüelles and S. Axani and X. Bai and A. Balagopal V. and A. Barbano and S. W. Barwick and B. Bastian and V. Basu and V. Baum and S. Baur and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and K. -H. Becker and J. Becker Tjus and C. Bellenghi and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and D. Z. Besson and G. Binder and D. Bindig and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and S. Böser and O. Botner and J. Böttcher and E. Bourbeau and J. Bourbeau and F. Bradascio and J. Braun and S. Bron and J. Brostean-Kaiser and A. Burgman and R. S. Busse and M. A. Campana and C. Chen and D. Chirkin and S. Choi and B. A. Clark and K. Clark and L. Classen and A. Coleman and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and P. Coppin and P. Correa and D. F. Cowen and R. Cross and P. Dave and C. De Clercq and J. J. 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Tollefson and L. Tomankova and C. Tönnis and S. Toscano and D. Tosi and A. Trettin and M. Tselengidou and C. F. Tung and A. Turcati and R. Turcotte and C. F. Turley and J. P. Twagirayezu and B. Ty and M. A. Unland Elorrieta and J. Vandenbroucke and D. van Eijk and N. van Eijndhoven and D. Vannerom and J. van Santen and S. Verpoest and M. Vraeghe and C. Walck and A. Wallace and T. B. Watson and C. Weaver and A. Weindl and M. J. Weiss and J. Weldert and C. Wendt and J. Werthebach and M. Weyrauch and B. J. Whelan and N. Whitehorn and K. Wiebe and C. H. Wiebusch and D. R. Williams and M. Wolf and K. Woschnagg and G. Wrede and J. Wulff and X. W. Xu and Y. Xu and J. P. Yanez and S. Yoshida and T. Yuan and Z. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01079},
year = {2021}
}