2009/08/17 by V. Van Elewyck, Van Elewyck, V.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Neutrino Physics Research #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0908.2454
4 pages, 2 figures. Prepared for the Proceedings of the 31st ICRC, Lodz (Poland), July 7-15, 2009
arxiv created 2009/08/17 · openalex publication_date 2009/08/17 · arxiv updated 2019/08/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Cataclysmic cosmic events can be plausible sources of both gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN). Both GW and HEN are alternative cosmic messengers that may escape very dense media and travel unaffected over cosmological distances, carrying information from the innermost regions of the astrophysical engines. For the same reasons, such messengers could also reveal new, hidden sources that were not observed by conventional photon astronomy. Requiring the consistency between GW and HEN detection channels shall enable new searches as one has significant additional information about the common source. A neutrino telescope such as ANTARES can determine accurately the time and direction of high energy neutrino events, while a network of gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and VIRGO can also provide timing/directional information for gravitational wave bursts. By combining the information from these totally independent detectors, one can search for cosmic events that may arrive from common astrophysical sources.