Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac9785

Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Icecube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are considered as promising sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) due to their large power output. Observing a neutrino flux from GRBs would offer evidence that GRBs are hadronic accelerators of UHECRs. Previous IceCube analyses, which primarily focused on neutrinos arriving in temporal coincidence with the prompt gamma-rays, found no significant neutrino excess. The four analyses presented in this paper extend the region of interest to 14 days before and after the prompt phase, including generic extended time windows and targeted precursor searches. GRBs were selected between 2011 May and 2018 October to align with the data set of candidate muon-neutrino events observed by IceCube. No evidence of correlation between neutrino events and GRBs was found in these analyses. Limits are set to constrain the contribution of the cosmic GRB population to the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube. Prompt neutrino emission from GRBs is limited to 21% of the observed diffuse neutrino flux, and emission on timescales up to 104 s is constrained to 24% of the total diffuse flux.

Original language	English
Article number	116
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	939
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9785
State	Published - Nov 1 2022

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Searches for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

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