A search for electron antineutrinos associated with gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226 using KamLAND

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Authors
  • A. Gando
  • Y. Gando
  • T. Hachiya
  • A. Hayashi
  • S. Hayashida
  • H. Ikeda
  • K. Inoue
  • K. Ishidoshiro
  • Y. Karino
  • M. Koga
  • S. Matsuda
  • T. Mitsui
  • K. Nakamura
  • S. Obara
  • T. Oura
  • H. Ozaki
  • I. Shimizu
  • Y. Shirahata
  • J. Shirai
  • A. Suzuki
  • T. Takai
  • K. Tamae
  • Y. Teraoka
  • K. Ueshima
  • H. Watanabe
  • A. Kozlov
  • Y. Takemoto
  • S. Yoshida
  • K. Fushimi
  • A. Piepke
  • T.I. Banks
  • B.E. Berger
  • B.K. Fujikawa
  • T. O'Donnell
  • J.G. Learned
  • J. Maricic
  • M. Sakai
  • L.A. Winslow
  • E. Krupczak
  • J. Ouellet
  • Y. Efremenko
  • H.J. Karwowski
  • D.M. Markoff
  • W. Tornow
  • J.A. Detwiler
  • S. Enomoto
  • M.P. Decowski
  • The KamLAND Collaboration
Publication date 01-10-2016
Journal Astrophysical Journal Letters
Article number L34
Volume | Issue number 829 | 2
Number of pages 5
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract We present a search, using KamLAND, a kiloton-scale anti-neutrino detector, for low-energy anti-neutrino events that were coincident with the gravitational-wave (GW) events GW150914 and GW151226, and the candidate event LVT151012. We find no inverse beta-decay neutrino events within ±500 s of either GW signal. This non-detection is used to constrain the electron anti-neutrino fluence and the total integrated luminosity of the astrophysical sources.
Document type Article
Note © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. - Erratum published in: 2017 ApJL 851 L22
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/829/2/L34
Other links http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9a32
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