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Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube

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Oct 6, 2016

40 pages

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JINST 11 (2016) 11, P11009

Published: Nov 21, 2016

e-Print:

1610.01814 [hep-ex]

DOI:

10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11009

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We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the whole sky continuously, high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have restricted fields of view and in general are unlikely to be observing a potential neutrino-flaring source at the time such neutrinos are recorded. The use of neutrino-triggered alerts thus aims at increasing the availability of simultaneous multi-messenger data during potential neutrino flaring activity, which can increase the discovery potential and constrain the phenomenological interpretation of the high-energy emission of selected source classes (e.g. blazars). The requirements of a fast and stable online analysis of potential neutrino signals and its operation are presented, along with first results of the program operating between 14 March 2012 and 31 December 2015.

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accepted for publication in JINST

Neutrino detectors
Gamma telescopes
neutrino: potential
gamma ray: detector
neutrino: trigger
gamma ray: VHE
IceCube
monitoring
stability
VERITAS

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