Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Initial Results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

Authors

Tiffany Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow
IceCube Collaboration
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-15-2014

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 10−2  M⊙c2 at ∼150  Hz with ∼60  ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of 1051  erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below 1.6×10−2  Mpc−3 yr−1. We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era.

Comments

The author is a participant the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

Journal Title

Physics Review D

Volume

90

Issue

10

First Page

1

Last Page

22

Recommended Citation

Summerscales, Tiffany; IceCube Collaboration; and LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, "Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Initial Results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube" (2014). Faculty Publications. 12.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/physics-pubs/12

Acknowledgements

Retrieved September 17, 2015, from http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.1042.pdf