IceCube search for neutrinos from novae

The IceCube Collaboration

IceCube search for neutrinos from novae

The IceCube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

Loyola University Chicago
German Electron Synchrotron
University of Canterbury
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
Université libre de Bruxelles
University of Copenhagen
TU Dortmund University
University of Delaware
Marquette University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Harvard University
University of Utah
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Berkeley
Ohio State University
Ruhr University Bochum
Chalmers University of Technology
Uppsala University
Technical University of Munich
RWTH Aachen University
University of Rochester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Padua
University of Kansas
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Adelaide
University of Münster
Drexel University

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Abstract

Despite being one of the longest known classes of astrophysical transients, novae continue to present modern surprises. The Fermi-LAT discovered that many if not all novae are GeV gamma ray sources, even though theoretical models had not even considered them as a possible source class. More recently, MAGIC and H.E.S.S. detected TeV gamma rays from a nova. Moreover, there is strong evidence that the gamma rays are produced hadronically, and that the long-studied optical emission by novae is also shock-powered. If this is true, novae should emit a neutrino signal correlated with their gamma-ray and optical signals. We present the first search for neutrinos from novae. Because the neutrino energy spectrum is expected to match the gamma-ray spectrum, we use an IceCube DeepCore event selection focused on GeV-TeV neutrinos. We present results from two searches, one for neutrinos correlated with gamma-ray emission and one for neutrinos correlated with optical emission. The event selection presented here is promising for additional astrophysical transients including gamma-ray bursts and gravitational wave sources.

Original language	English
Article number	1560
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	444
State	Published - Sep 27 2024
Event	38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan Duration: Jul 26 2023 → Aug 3 2023

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IceCube search for neutrinos from novae

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