Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 911
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5451-z

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope

The ANTARES Collaboration

¹ GRPHE, Université de Haute Alsace - Institut universitaire de technologie de Colmar, 34 rue du Grillenbreit, BP 50568, 68008, Colmar, France
² Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia, Rambla Exposició, 08800, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain
³ INFN-Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
⁴ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
⁵ Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/ Paranimf 1, 46730, Gandia, Spain
⁶ CPPM, Aix Marseille Univ., CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
⁷ APC, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
⁸ IFIC-Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-Universitat de València), c/ Catedrático José Beltrán, 2, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
⁹ LAM-Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Pôle de l’Étoile Site de Château-Gombert, rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie 38, 13388, Marseille Cedex 13, France
¹⁰ National Center for Energy Sciences and Nuclear Techniques, B.P.1382, 10001, R. P. Rabat, Morocco
¹¹ INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), Via S. Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
¹² Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹³ Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
¹⁴ Institute for Space Science, Măgurele, 077125, Bucharest, Romania
¹⁵ Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 105, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁶ INFN-Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁷ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁸ Gran Sasso Science Institute, Viale Francesco Crispi 7, 00167, L’Aquila, Italy
¹⁹ Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V in Rabat, 4 av. Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014, 10000, R. P. Rabat, Morocco
²⁰ INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
²¹ INFN-Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
²² Department of Computer Architecture and Technology/CITIC, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
²³ Géoazur, UCA, CNRS, IRD, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France
²⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
²⁵ Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
²⁶ Laboratory of Physics of Matter and Radiations, University Mohammed I, B.P.717, 6000, Oujda, Morocco
²⁷ Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Emil-Fischer Str. 31, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
²⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università, Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
²⁹ Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
³⁰ INFN-Sezione di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy
³¹ LSIS, Aix Marseille Université CNRS ENSAM LSIS UMR 7296, 13397, Marseille, France
³² Université de Toulon CNRS LSIS UMR 7296, 83957, La Garde, France
³³ Institut Universitaire de France, 75005, Paris, France
³⁴ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Utrecht University, Landsdiep 4, 1797 SZ, ’t Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands
³⁵ Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049, Bamberg, Germany
³⁶ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia
³⁷ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix-Marseille University, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France
³⁸ Université du Sud Toulon-Var, CNRS-INSU/IRD UM 110, 83957, La Garde Cedex, France
³⁹ Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia dell’Università, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125, Catania, Italy
⁴⁰ Direction des Sciences de la Matière-Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l’Univers-Service de Physique des Particules, CEA Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
⁴¹ INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
⁴² Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
⁴³ INFN-Sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
⁴⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
⁴⁵ Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos and C.A.F.P.E., University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
⁴⁶ Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67000, Strasbourg, France

^* e-mail: coleiro@apc.in2p3.fr

Received: 5 October 2017
Accepted: 5 December 2017
Published online: 28 December 2017

Abstract

Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4th, 2017. An all-sky high-energy neutrino follow-up search has been made using data from the Antares neutrino telescope, including both upgoing and downgoing events in two separate analyses. No neutrino candidates were found within  s around the GW event time nor any time clustering of events over an extended time window of  months. The non-detection is used to constrain isotropic-equivalent high-energy neutrino emission from GW170104 to less than  erg for a spectrum. This constraint is valid in the energy range corresponding to the 5–95% quantiles of the neutrino flux [3.2 TeV; 3.6 PeV], if the GW emitter was below the Antares horizon at the alert time.