Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

Icecube Collaboration; LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.102002

Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

Icecube Collaboration
, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
, The Virgo Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

University of Adelaide
German Electron Synchrotron
University of Canterbury
University of Geneva
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stockholm University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Pennsylvania State University
RWTH Aachen University
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Ohio State University
Ruhr University Bochum
University of Wuppertal
University of Maryland, College Park
Technical University of Munich
University of Kansas
University of California at Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Uppsala University
Sungkyunkwan University
University of Bonn
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Toronto
TU Dortmund University

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Abstract

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint operation between 2007-2010. These include parts of the 2005-2007 run and the 2009-2010 run for LIGO-Virgo, and IceCube's observation periods with 22, 59 and 79 strings. We find no significant coincident events, and use the search results to derive upper limits on the rate of joint sources for a range of source emission parameters. For the optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of 10-2M c2 at ∼150Hz with ∼60ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of 1051erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below 1.6×10-2Mpc-3yr-1. We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era.

Original language	English
Article number	102002
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	90
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.102002
State	Published - Nov 17 2014

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Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube. / Icecube Collaboration; LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration.
In: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 90, No. 10, 102002, 17.11.2014.

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Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

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