Multimessenger Science Reach and Analysis Method for Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos

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Title: Multimessenger Science Reach and Analysis Method for Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos
Authors: Baret, Bruny, Bartos, Imre, Bouhou, Boutayeb, Chassande-Mottin, Eric, Corsi, Alessandra, Di Palma, Irene, Donzaud, Corinne, Drago, Marco, Finley, Chad, Jones, Gareth, Klimenko, Sergey, Kouchner, Antoine, Márka, Szabolcs, Márka, Zsuzsa, Moscoso, Luciano, Papa, Maria Alessandra, Pradier, Thierry, Prodi, Giovanni, Raffai, Peter, Re, Virginia, Rollins, Jameson, Salemi, Francesco, Sutton, Patrick, Tse, Maggie, Van Elewyck, Véronique, Vedovato, Gabriele
Source: Phys. Rev. D 85, 103004 (2012)
Publication Year: 2011
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
More Details: We present the baseline multimessenger analysis method for the joint observations of gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN), together with a detailed analysis of the expected science reach of the joint search. The analysis method combines data from GW and HEN detectors, and uses the blue-luminosity-weighted distribution of galaxies. We derive expected GW+HEN source rate upper limits for a wide range of source parameters covering several emission models. Using published sensitivities of externally triggered searches, we derive joint upper limit estimates both for the ongoing analysis with the initial LIGO-Virgo GW detectors with the partial IceCube detector (22 strings) HEN detector and for projected results to advanced LIGO-Virgo detectors with the completed IceCube (86 strings). We discuss the constraints these upper limits impose on some existing GW+HEN emission models.
Comment: *Corresponding author: ibartos@phys.columbia.edu
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.103004
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1140
Accession Number: edsarx.1112.1140
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.103004