2020/12/31 by R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +362
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Cosmic background radiation #Cosmic ray #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutrino detector #Observatory #Pipeline (software) #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abe123
published as ApJ 910 4 (2021) · 18 pages, 9 figures
openalex created_date 2020/12/21 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/01 · arxiv created 2021/03/30 · arxiv updated 2021/03/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract In multi-messenger astronomy, rapid investigation of interesting transients is imperative. As an observatory with a 4 π steradian field of view, and ∼99% uptime, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility to follow up transients, as well as to provide valuable insights for other observatories and inform their observational decisions. Since 2016, IceCube has been using low-latency data to rapidly respond to interesting astrophysical events reported by the multi-messenger observational community. Here, we describe the pipeline used to perform these followup analyses, and provide a summary of the 58 analyses performed as of July 2020. We find no significant signal in the first 58 analyses performed. The pipeline has helped inform various electromagnetic observation strategies, and has constrained neutrino emission from potential hadronic cosmic accelerators.