12–23 Jul 2021
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Gravitational Wave Follow-Up Using Low Energy Neutrinos in IceCube DeepCore

20 Jul 2021, 18:00
1h 30m
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Poster MM | Multi-Messenger Discussion

Speaker

Aswathi Balagopal V. (UW-Madison)

Description

The IceCube DeepCore is a dense infill array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. While IceCube is best suited for detecting neutrinos with energies of several 100 GeV and above, DeepCore allows to probe neutrinos with lower energies. We focus on a sample of neutrinos with energies above approximately 10 GeV, which was originally optimised for oscillation experiments. Recently, it has been adapted to enable searches for transient sources of astrophysical neutrinos in the sky. In particular, this low-energy dataset can be used to conduct follow-up searches of gravitational wave transients detected by the LIGO-Virgo instruments. A study of this, which complements IceCube’s follow-up of gravitational wave events using high-energy neutrino samples, will be discussed here.

Keywords

neutrino astronomy, gravitational wave follow-up, low-energy neutrinos, IceCube Deepcore

Subcategory Experimental Methods & Instrumentation
Collaboration IceCube

Primary authors

Aswathi Balagopal V. (UW-Madison) Raamis Hussain (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Alex Pizzuto (University of Wisconsin-Madison) For the IceCube Collaboration

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