Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2017-04-12 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the whole sky continuously, high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have restricted fields of view and in general are unlikely to be observing a potential neutrino-flaring source at the time such neutrinos are recorded. The use of neutrino-triggered alerts thus aims at increasing the availability of simultaneous multi-messenger data during potential neutrino flaring activity, which can increase the discovery potential and constrain the phenomenological interpretation of the high-energy emission of selected source classes (e.g. blazars). The requirements of a fast and stable online analysis of potential neutrino signals and its operation are presented, along with first results of the program operating between 14 March 2012 and 31 December 2015.
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@article{arxiv.1610.01814,
title = {Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube},
author = {IceCube Collaboration and M. G. Aartsen and K. Abraham and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and M. Ahrens and D. Altmann and K. Andeen and T. Anderson and I. Ansseau and G. Anton and M. Archinger and C. Arguelles and J. Auffenberg and S. Axani and X. Bai and S. W. Barwick and V. Baum and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and J. Becker-Tjus and K. -H. Becker and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and A. Bernhard and D. Z. Besson and G. Binder and D. Bindig and M. Bissok and E. Blaufuss and S. Blot and C. Bohm and M. Borner and F. Bos and D. Bose and S. Boser and O. Botner and J. Braun and L. Brayeur and H. -P. Bretz and S. Bron and A. Burgman and T. Carver and M. Casier and E. Cheung and D. Chirkin and A. Christov and K. Clark and L. Classen and S. Coenders and G. H. Collin and J. M. Conrad and D. F. Cowen R. Cross and M. Day and J. P. A. M. de Andre and C. De Clercq and E. del Pino Rosendo and H. Dembinski and S. De Ridder and P. Desiati and K. 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Barres de Almeida and J. A. Barrio and J. Becerra Gonzalez and W. Bednarek and E. Bernardini and A. Berti and B. Biasuzzi and A. Biland and O. Blanch and S. Bonnefoy and G. Bonnoli and F. Borracci and T. Bretz and S. Buson and A. Carosi and A. Chatterjee and R. Clavero and P. Colin and E. Colombo and J. L. Contreras and J. Cortina and S. Covino and P. Da Vela and F. Dazzi and A. De Angelis and B. De Lotto and E. de Ona Wilhelmi and F. Di Pierro and M. Doert and A. Dominguez and D. Dominis Prester and D. Dorner and M. Doro and S. Einecke and D. Eisenacher Glawion and D. Elsaesser and M. Engelkemeier and V. Fallah Ramazani and A. Fernandez-Barral and D. Fidalgo and M. V. Fonseca and L. Font and K. Frantzen and C. Fruck and D. Galindo and R. J. Garcia Lopez and M. Garczarczyk and D. Garrido Terrats and M. Gaug and P. Giammaria and N. Godinovic and A. Gonzalez Munoz and D. Gora and D. Guberman and D. Hadasch and A. Hahn and Y. Hanabata and M. Hayashida and J. Herrera and J. Hose and D. Hrupec and G. Hughes and W. Idec and K. Kodani and Y. Konno and H. Kubo and J. Kushida and A. La Barbera and D. Lelas and E. Lindfors and S. Lombardi and F. Longo and M. Lopez and R. Lopez-Coto and P. Majumdar and M. Makariev and K. Mallot and G. Maneva and M. Manganaro and K. Mannheim and L. Maraschi and B. Marcote and M. Mariotti and M. Martinez and D. Mazin and U. Menzel and J. M. Miranda and R. Mirzoyan and A. Moralejo and E. Moretti and D. Nakajima and V. Neustroev and A. Niedzwiecki and M. Nievas Rosillo and K. Nilsson and K. Nishijima and K. Noda and L. Nogues and A. Overkemping and S. Paiano and J. Palacio and M. Palatiello and D. Paneque and R. Paoletti and J. M. Paredes and X. Paredes-Fortuny and G. Pedaletti and M. Peresano and L. Perri and M. Persic and J. Poutanen and P. G. Prada Moroni and E. Prandini and I. Puljak and I. Reichardt and W. Rhode and M. Ribo and J. Rico and J. Rodriguez Garcia and T. Saito and K. Satalecka and S. Schroeder and C. Schultz and T. Schweizer and A. Sillanpaa and J. Sitarek and I. Snidaric and D. Sobczynska and A. Stamerra and T. Steinbring and M. Strzys and T. Suric and L. Takalo and F. Tavecchio and P. Temnikov and T. Terzic and D. Tescaro and M. Teshima and J. Thaele and D. F. Torres and T. Toyama and A. Treves and G. Vanzo and V. Verguilov and I. Vovk and J. E. Ward and M. Will and M. H. Wu and R. Zanin VERITAS Collaboration and : and A. U. Abeysekara and S. Archambault and A. Archer and W. Benbow and R. Bird and E. Bourbeau and M. Buchovecky and V. Bugaev and K. Byrum and J. V Cardenzana and M. Cerruti and L. Ciupik and M. P. Connolly and W. Cui and H. J. Dickinson and J. Dumm and J. D. Eisch and M. Errando and A. Falcone and Q. Feng and J. P. Finley and H. Fleischhack and A. Flinders and L. Fortson and A. Furniss and G. H. Gillanders and S. Griffin and J. Grube and M. Hutten and N. Haakansson and O. Hervet and J. Holder and T. B. Humensky and C. A. Johnson and P. Kaaret and P. Kar and N. Kelley-Hoskins and M. Kertzman and D. Kieda and M. Krause and F. Krennrich and S. Kumar and M. J. Lang and G. Maier and S. McArthur and A. McCann and P. Moriarty and R. Mukherjee and T. Nguyen and D. Nieto and S. O'Brien and R. A. Ong and A. N. Otte and N. Park and M. Pohl and A. Popkow and E. Pueschel and J. Quinn and K. Ragan and P. T. Reynolds and G. T. Richards and E. Roache and C. Rulten and I. Sadeh and M. Santander and G. H. Sembroski and K. Shahinyan and D. Staszak and I. Telezhinsky and J. V. Tucci and J. Tyler and S. P. Wakely and A. Weinstein and P. Wilcox and A. Wilhelm and D. A. Williams and B. Zitzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01814},
year = {2017}
}
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accepted for publication in JINST