GCN Circular 20134

D. Dornic (CPPM/CNRS), A. Coleiro (APC/Universite Paris Diderot) on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration:

Using data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a follow-up analysis of the recently reported single high-energy (HESE) neutrino IceCube-161103A (AMON IceCube HESE 38561326 128672). The reconstructed origin was 26.1 degrees below the horizon for ANTARES, with this position remaining below the horizon from -2.6h, +8h around the time of the alert. Thus ANTARES had a high sensitivity to any neutrinos from the same region.

ANTARES is the largest neutrino detector installed in the Mediterranean Sea, and is primarily sensitive to astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range.  At 10 TeV, the median angular resolution for muon neutrinos is below 0.5 degrees. In the range 1-100 TeV, ANTARES has the best sensitivity to this position in the sky.

No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were recorded within three degrees of the IceCube event coordinates during a +/- 1h time-window centered on the IceCube event time. A search on an extended time window of +/- 1 day has also yielded no detection (64% visibility probability).

This yields a preliminary 90% confidence level upper limit on the muon-neutrino fluence from a point source of 13 GeV.cm^-2 over the energy range 3.8 TeV-3.8 PeV (the range corresponding to 5-95% of the detectable flux) for an E^-2 power-law spectrum, and 32 GeV.cm^-2 (660 GeV-370 TeV) for an E^-2.5 spectrum.