Eur. Phys. J. C (2020) 80: 487
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8015-6

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Search for neutrino counterparts of gravitational-wave events detected by LIGO and Virgo during run O2 with the ANTARES telescope

¹ Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67000, Strasbourg, France
² Université de Haute Alsace, 68200, Mulhouse, France
³ Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Rambla Exposició, Technical University of Catalonia, 08800, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain
⁴ INFN-Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
⁵ Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
⁶ Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió Integrada de les Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, C/ Paranimf 1, 46730, Gandia, Spain
⁷ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, Marseille, France
⁸ Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, 75013, Paris, France
⁹ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
¹⁰ National Center for Energy Sciences and Nuclear Techniques, B.P.1382, Rabat, R. P.10001, Morocco
¹¹ Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), INFN, Via S. Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
¹² University Mohammed V in Rabat, Faculty of Sciences, 4 av. Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014, Rabat, R.P. 10000, Morocco
¹³ Laboratory of Physics of Matter and Radiations, University Mohammed I, B.P.717, 6000, Oujda, Morocco
¹⁴ Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁵ Institute of Space Science, 077125, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
¹⁶ Instituut voor Hoge-Energie Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Science Park 105, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁷ INFN-Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁸ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università La Sapienza, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
¹⁹ Gran Sasso Science Institute, Viale Francesco Crispi 7, 00167, L’Aquila, Italy
²⁰ LPHEA, Faculty of Science-Semlali, Cadi Ayyad University, P.O.B. 2390, Marrakech, Morocco
²¹ INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Viale Berti-Pichat 6/2, 40127, Bologna, Italy
²² INFN-Sezione di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy
²³ IFIC-Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC - Universitat de València) c/ Catedrático José Beltrán, 2 E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
²⁴ Department of Computer Architecture and Technology/CITIC, University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
²⁵ Géoazur, UCA, CNRS, IRD, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France
²⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy
²⁷ Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France
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 LIS, UMR Université de Toulon, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, 83041, Toulon, France
³¹ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University, Landsdiep 4, 1797, SZ ’t Horntje (Texel), The Netherlands
³² International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia
³³ Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Universiteit Leiden, leiden, The Netherlands
³⁴ Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Emil-Fischer Str. 31, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
³⁵ Institut Universitaire de France, 75005, Paris, France
³⁶ Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte and ECAP, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049, Bamberg, Germany
³⁷ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Leninskie Gory, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
³⁸ Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), Aix-Marseille University, 13288, Marseille, Cedex 9, France
³⁹ Université du Sud Toulon-Var, CNRS-INSU/IRD UM 110, 83957, La Garde Cedex, France
⁴⁰ INFN-Sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
⁴¹ Dpto. de Física Teórica y del Cosmos and C.A.F.P.E., University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
⁴² IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁴³ INFN-Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
⁴⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
⁴⁵ INFN-Sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy
⁴⁶ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università Federico II di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126, Naples, Italy

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

Received: 9 March 2020
Accepted: 6 May 2020
Published online: 30 May 2020

Abstract

An offline search for a neutrino counterpart to gravitational-wave (GW) events detected during the second observation run (O2) of Advanced-LIGO and Advanced-Virgo performed with ANTARES data is presented. In addition to the search for long tracks induced by () charged current interactions, a search for showering events induced by interactions of neutrinos of any flavour is conducted. The severe spatial and time coincidence provided by the gravitational-wave alert allows regions above the detector horizon to be probed, extending the ANTARES sensitivity over the entire sky. The results of this all-neutrino-flavour and all-sky time dependent analysis are presented. The search for prompt neutrino emission within ±500 s around the time of six GW events yields no neutrino counterparts. Upper limits on the neutrino spectral fluence and constraints on the isotropic energy radiated via high-energy neutrinos (from a few TeV to a few tens of PeV) are set for each GW event analysed.