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Search for prompt neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with icecube

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  • University of Adelaide
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • University of Canterbury
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • University of Wisconsin
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
  • University of California, Irvine
  • Johannes Gutenberg University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • Ohio State University
  • Max-Planck-lnstitut für Kohlenforschung
  • Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Kansas
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Uppsala University
  • Sungkyunkwan University
  • VUB Neurology
  • University of Alberta
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Geneva
  • University of Toronto
  • pro3dure medical GmbH
  • Michigan State University
  • Ghent University
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • University of Delaware
  • Southern University and A&M College
  • Chiba-U
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Tokyo
  • Clark-Atlanta University
  • Yale University
  • SUNY
  • University of Mons
  • Niels Bohr Institutet
  • Drexel University
  • University of Wisconsin-River Falls
  • University of Alabama
  • University of Alaska Anchorage
  • University of Oxford
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Abstract

We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible with the atmospheric neutrino background, was found in coincidence with one of the 506 observed bursts. Although GRBs have been proposed as candidate sources for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, our limits on the neutrino flux disfavor much of the parameter space for the latest models. We also find that no more than ∼1% of the recently observed astrophysical neutrino flux consists of prompt emission from GRBs that are potentially observable by existing satellites.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL5
JournalAstrophysical Journal Letters
Volume805
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 May 2015

Keywords

  • gamma-ray burst: general
  • neutrinos

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