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Very high-energy gamma-ray follow-up program using neutrino triggers from IceCube
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Author:
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Galindo Fernández, Daniel; Marcote Martin, Benito; Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria; Paredes Fortuny, Xavier; Ribó Gomis, Marc; Zanin, Roberta; MAGIC Collaboration; VERITAS Collaboration; IceCube Collaboration
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract:
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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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-Neutrins -Raigs gamma -Neutrinos -Gamma rays |
Rights:
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cc-by (c) Galindo Fernández, Daniel et al., 2016
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es |
Document type:
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Article Article - Published version |
Published by:
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Institute of Physics (IOP)
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