Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1
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Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1
Halzen F
Meures T
Tung CF
Chambers K
Mariscal CJL
Taboada I
Diaz-Velez JC
Pankova DV
Ishihara A
Rott C
Nowicki SC
Rauch L
Katz U
Kulacz N
Wainscoat RJ
Stuttard T
Ganster E
Axani S
Rawlins K
Pandya H
Kim J
Pieloth D
Chen C
Besson DZ
Hoshina K
Arguelles C
Tomankova L
Conrad JM
Kurahashi N
Lauber F
Stamatikos M
Fritz A
Wiebe K
Willman M
Dave P
Hebecker D
Koskinen DJ
Magnier E
Cross R
Walck C
O'Murchadha A
Desiati P
Park N
Wright D
Xu DL
Werthebach J
Kheirandish A
BenZvi S
Unger E
Williams DR
Finley C
Turcotte R
Stein R
Baum V
Turcati A
Kelley JL
Dvorak E
Flewelling H
Xu Y
Seunarine S
Stettner J
Rameez M
Soedingrekso J
O'Sullivan E
Rea IC
Hill GC
Bay R
Yodh G
Reimann R
de Andre JPAM
Rongen M
Gaisser TK
de Vries KD
Haack C
de los Heros CP
Lohfink E
Leonard K
Yuan T
Jones BJP
Wendt C
Przybylski GT
Huber M
Yanez JP
Miarecki S
Chen TW
Jacobi E
Karg T
Relethford B
Borner M
Schmidt T
Herrera SES
Coppin P
Nahnhauer R
Ahrens M
Stanev T
Wallace A
In S
Usner M
van Santen J
Snihur R
Strotjohann NL
Menne T
Eberhardt B
Weaver C
Blaufuss E
Wille L
Gonzalez JG
Ansseau I
Steuer A
Weiss MJ
Hanson K
Micallef J
Gallagher J
Sandrock A
Brostean-Kaiser J
Ahlers M
Bagherpour H
Iovine N
Toscano S
Bindig D
Medici M
Hickford S
Kruckl G
Schlunder P
Kang W
Alispach C
Sullivan GW
Kiryluk J
Silva M
Kintscher T
Wrede G
Schumacher L
Meagher K
Sandroos J
Sutherland M
Renzi G
Stezelberger T
Karle A
Stachurska J
Smartt SJ
Lucarelli F
Altmann D
Lu L
Price PB
Wolf M
Keivani A
Pollmann AO
Maunu R
Schneider J
Safa I
Pizzuto A
Montaruli T
Rysewyk D
Dujmovic H
Medina A
Karl M
Liu QR
Ter-Antonyan S
Sclafani S
Naumann U
Wiebusch CH
Palczewski T
Blot S
Hoffmann R
Kappes A
Glauch T
Friedman E
Mase K
Mallot K
Moulai M
Ty B
Correa P
Rhode W
Gerhardt L
Evenson PA
Tjus JB
Raab C
McBrien O
Bai X
Deoskar K
Goldschmidt A
Ackermann M
Tonnis C
Berley D
Cowen DF
Bernardini E
Hultqvist K
Lanfranchi JL
Japaridze GS
Hussain R
Garrappa S
Elorrieta MAU
Turley CF
Hunnefeld M
Smith KW
Ghorbani K
Burgman A
Boser S
Van Driessche W
Tenholt F
Braun J
Fahey S
Waters C
Klein SR
Bourbeau J
Aartsen MG
Terliuk A
Nakarmi P
Raissi A
Momente G
Hoffman KD
Krings K
Halve L
Schultz A
Satalecka K
Young D
Meier M
Stokstad RG
Anton G
Collin GH
Maruyama R
Filimonov K
Becker KH
DeLaunay JJ
Mancina S
Kowalski M
Clark K
Griffith Z
Kopper C
Schneider A
Fazely AR
Koirala R
Barwick SW
Tilav S
Plum M
Kauer M
Kopper S
van Eijndhoven N
Stasik A
Madsen J
Grant D
Binder G
Spiczak GM
Whelan BJ
Xu XW
Andeen K
Nordin J
Labare M
Wood TR
Tselengidou M
Dembinski H
Makino Y
Cheung E
Ehrhardt T
Spiering C
Hignight J
Dunkman M
Aguilar JA
Felde J
Pinat E
Hokanson-Fasig B
Olivas A
Eller P
Niederhausen H
Kolanoski H
de Wasseige G
Bron S
Wandkowsky N
Jero K
Hallgren A
Kyriacou A
Hoinka T
Huang F
DeYoung T
Glsenkamp T
Nagai R
Merino G
Leuermann M
Barbano A
Kunwar S
Luszczak W
Ryckbosch D
de With M
Richman M
Busse RS
Soldin D
Mahn KBM
Larson MJ
Backes P
Bradascio F
Auffenberg J
Lazar JP
Woschnagg K
Whitehorn N
Kankare E
Lunemann J
Botner O
Vanheule S
Moore RW
Song M
Henningsen F
Gunduz M
Seckel D
van Eijk D
Wallraff M
Classen L
Robertson S
Vandenbroucke J
Sarkar S
Weldert J
Lowe T
Carver T
Helbing K
Santander M
Resconi E
Watson TB
Kalaczynski P
Ruhe T
Mari IC
Bretz HP
Heereman D
Tosi D
Anderson T
Stossl A
Bourbeau E
Maggi G
Kopke L
Kittler T
Wood J
De Clercq C
Wills L
Jeong M
Peiffer P
Nygren DR
Adams J
Vraeghe M
Yoshida S
Franckowiak A
Kappesser D
Schaufel M
Chirkin D
Hellauer R
Bohm C
Beatty JJ
Neer G
De Ridder S
Westerhoff S
Meighen-Berger S
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042821178
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042821178
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In order to identify the sources of the observed diffuse high-energy neutrino flux, it is crucial to discover their electromagnetic counterparts. To increase the sensitivity of detecting counterparts of transient or variable sources by telescopes with a limited field of view, IceCube began releasing alerts for single high-energy (E-v > 60 TeV) neutrino detections with sky localisation regions of order 1 degrees radius in 2016. We used Pan-STARRS1 to follow-up five of these alerts during 2016-2017 to search for any optical transients that may be related to the neutrinos. Typically 10-20 faint m(ip1) less than or similar to 22.5 mag) extragalactic transients are found within the Pan-STARRS1 footprints and are generally consistent with being unrelated field supernovae (SNe) and AGN. We looked for unusual properties of the detected transients, such as temporal coincidence of explosion epoch with the IceCube timestamp, or other peculiar light curve and physical properties. We found only one transient that had properties worthy of a specific follow-up. In the Pan-STARRS1 imaging for IceCube-160427A (probability to be of astrophysical origin of similar to 50%), we found a SN PS16cgx, located at 10.0' from the nominal IceCube direction. Spectroscopic observations of PS16cgx showed that it was an H-poor SN at redshift z = 0.2895 +/- 0.0001. The spectra and light curve resemble some high-energy Type Ic SNe, raising the possibility of a jet driven SN with an explosion epoch temporally coincident with the neutrino detection. However, distinguishing Type Ia and Type Ic SNe at this redshift is notoriously difficult. Based on all available data we conclude that the transient is more likely to be a Type Ia with relatively weak Sin absorption and a fairly normal rest-frame r-band light curve. If, as predicted, there is no high-energy neutrino emission from Type Ia SNe, then PS16cgx must be a random coincidence, and unrelated to the IceCube-160427A. We find no other plausible optical transient for any of the five IceCube events observed down to a 5 sigma limiting magnitude of mip1 approximate to 22 mag, between 1 day and 25 days after detection.
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