Search for counterpart to HAWC-201019A with ANTARES
ATel #14108; Alexis Coleiro (APC/Universite de Paris) and Damien Dornic (CPPM/CNRS) on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration
on 21 Oct 2020; 20:41 UT
Credential Certification: Antoine Kouchner (kouchner@apc.univ-paris-diderot.fr)
Subjects: >GeV, TeV, Neutrinos, Transient
Using data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a follow-up analysis of the recently reported HAWC-201019A alert (GCN 28709 [https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/28709.gcn3]).
No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were detected within the error box of the HAWC event during a +/- 1h time-window centered on the HAWC event time (T0), and over which the potential source remained visible all time in the up-going field of view of ANTARES. At T0, the elevation of the alert is -15 degrees below the horizon for ANTARES.
This leads to a preliminary 90% confidence level upper limit on the muon-neutrino radiant fluence from a point source of about 17 GeV.cm^-2 over the energy range 7 TeV â 6 PeV (the range corresponding to 5-95% of the detectable flux) for an E^-2 power-law spectrum, and about 37 GeV.cm^-2 (1 - 630 TeV) for an E^-2.5 spectrum. A search over an extended time window of +/-1 day has also yielded no detection (32% visibility).
ANTARES [http://antares.in2p3.fr/] is the largest undersea neutrino detector (Mediterranean Sea) and it is primarily sensitive to astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. At 10 TeV, the median angular resolution for muon neutrinos is about 0.5 degrees. In the range 1-100 TeV ANTARES has a competitive sensitivity to this position in the sky.
