Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

ANTARES COLLABORATION; ICECUBE COLLABORATION; THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION; LIGO COLLABORATION; GARCIA, B (500 AUTORES EN ORDEN ALFABETICO); GARCIA, B (500 AUTHORS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2017 vol. 850 p. 1 - 19

0004-637X

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; }TheAdvanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discoveredgravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A shortgamma-ray burst(GR B)that followed the merger of this binary was also recorded by theFermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM),and the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for theInternational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory(INTEGRAL),indicating particle acceleration by the source. Theprecise location of the event was determined by optical detections ofemission following the merger. We searched for high-energy neutrinosfrom the merger in the GeV EeV energy range using the ANTARES,IceCube, andPierre Auger Observatories. No neutrinos directionally coincidentwith the source were detected within ± 500s around the merger time. Additionally, no MeV neutrino burst signalwas detected coincident with the merger. We furthercarried out an extended search in the direction of the source forhigh-energy neutrinos within the 14 day period following the merger,but found no evidence of emission. We used these results to probedissipation mechanismsin relativistic out flows driven by thebinary neutron star merger. The non-detection is consistent withmodel predictions of short GRBs observed at a large off-axis angle.