A Search for Coincident Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube
ORAL
Abstract
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has discovered diffuse astrophysical neutrinos. Despite finding evidence for neutrino emission from sources such as TXS 0506+056, the majority of these astrophysical neutrino sources remain to be identified. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a rapidly growing class of galactic and extra-galactic astrophysical objects that could help explain the astrophysical neutrino flux. IceCube has previously performed two searches for neutrino emission with events that originate from charged current muon neutrino interactions. In this analysis, we present a search for neutrinos that are spatially and temporally coincident with 22 unique, non-repeating FRBs and one repeating FRB (FRB121102) using events that originate from all-flavor neutral current interactions as well as electron and tau neutrino charged current interactions. This event selection allows us to probe a longer range of afterglow timescales due to the low background rate. Since no statistically significant fluctuation of neutrinos was observed, we set upper limits on the time-integrated neutrino flux emitted by FRBs for a range of afterglow timescales. These are the first limits to be set on neutrino emission from FRBs with this new event selection.
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Presenters
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Mike Kovacevich
Drexel University
Authors
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Mike Kovacevich
Drexel University
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Naoko Kurahashi Neilson
Drexel Univ, Drexel University