Published August 20, 2009
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Journal article
SEARCH FOR HIGH-ENERGY MUON NEUTRINOS FROM THE 'NAKED-EYE' GRB 080319B WITH THE IceCube NEUTRINO TELESCOPE
Creators
- Abbasi, R.1
- Aguilar, J. A.1
- Andeen, K.1
- Baker, M.1
- Abdou, Y.2
- Abu-Zayyad, T.3
- Adams, J.4
- Ahlers, M.5
- Auffenberg, J.6
- Becker, K.-H.6
- Bai, X.7
- Barwick, S. W.8
- Bay, R.9
- Alba, J. L. Bazo10
- Benabderrahmane, M. L.10
- Berdermann, J.10
- Beattie, K.11
- Beatty, J. J.12
- Bechet, S.13
- Becker, J. K.14
- and others
- IceCube Collaboration
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (United States)
- 2. Department of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent (Belgium)
- 3. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI 54022 (United States)
- 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch (New Zealand)
- 5. Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP (United Kingdom)
- 6. Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal (Germany)
- 7. Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 (United States)
- 8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 (United States)
- 9. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
- 10. DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen (Germany)
- 11. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
- 12. Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
- 13. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)
- 14. Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund (Germany)
Description
We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.1 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66 s and an extended window of about 300 s around the GRB, no excess was found above background. The 90% CL upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.5 x 10-3 erg cm-2 in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Astrophysical Journal
- Journal Volume
- 701
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1721-1731
- ISSN
- 0004-637X
- CODEN
- ASJOAB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41061690
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; DATA ANALYSIS; FIREBALL MODEL; MUON NEUTRINOS; PEV RANGE; TELESCOPES; TEV RANGE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE MODELS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Collaborations
- IceCube Collaboration