GCN Circular 21066
Subject
LIGO/Virgo: G284239 ANTARES search
Date
2017-05-04T01:17:05Z (7 years ago)
From
Damien Dornic at CPPM/CNRS <dornic@cppm.in2p3.fr>
M. Ageron (CPPM/CNRS), B. Baret (APC/CNRS), A. Coleiro (IFIC & APC), D.
Dornic (CPPM/CNRS), A. Kouchner (APC/Universite Paris Diderot), T.
Pradier (IPHC/Universite de Strasbourg) report on behalf of the ANTARES
Collaboration:
Using on-line data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a
follow-up analysis of the recently reported LIGO/Virgo G284239 event
using the initial LIGO LIB_skymap probability map at event time (LVC
GCN Circ. 21060). The ANTARES visibility at the time of the alert
together with the 90% contour of the probability map are shown
in: https://www.cppm.in2p3.fr/~dornic/events/G284239.png <https://www.cppm.in2p3.fr/~dornic/events/G284239.png> (gwantares/
ANT@GW). Considering the location probability provided by the LIGO
collaboration, there is a 52% chance that the GW emitter was in the
ANTARES field of view.
No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were recorded within the 90%
contour during a +/- 500s time-window centered on the G284239 event
time. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the
region visible by ANTARES is ~2.6e-2 in the +/- 500s time window. An
extended search during +/- 1 hour gives no up-going neutrino
coincidence.
An estimate of the upper limit on the associated neutrino fluence will
be sent in a subsequent circular.
ANTARES, being installed in the Mediterranean Deep Sea, is the largest
neutrino detector in the Northern Hemisphere. It 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 a
large fraction of the Southern sky.