Search for Continuous and Transient Neutrino Emission Associated with IceCube's Highest-energy Tracks: An 11 yr Analysis
Journal article, 2024

IceCube alert events are neutrinos with a moderate-to-high probability of having astrophysical origin. In this study, we analyze 11 yr of IceCube data and investigate 122 alert events and a selection of high-energy tracks detected between 2009 and the end of 2021. This high-energy event selection (alert events + high-energy tracks) has an average probability of >= 0.5 of being of astrophysical origin. We search for additional continuous and transient neutrino emission within the high-energy events' error regions. We find no evidence for significant continuous neutrino emission from any of the alert event directions. The only locally significant neutrino emission is the transient emission associated with the blazar TXS 0506+056, with a local significance of 3 sigma, which confirms previous IceCube studies. When correcting for 122 test positions, the global p-value is 0.156 and compatible with the background hypothesis. We constrain the total continuous flux emitted from all 122 test positions at 100 TeV to be below 1.2 x 10-15 (TeV cm2 s)-1 at 90% confidence assuming an E -2 spectrum. This corresponds to 4.5% of IceCube's astrophysical diffuse flux. Overall, we find no indication that alert events in general are linked to lower-energetic continuous or transient neutrino emission.

Author

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Loyola University of Chicago

M. Ackermann

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

J. Adams

University of Canterbury

S. K. Agarwalla

University of Wisconsin Madison

Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar

J. A. Aguilar

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

M. Ahlers

University of Copenhagen

J. M. Alameddine

Technische Universität Dortmund

N. M. Amin

University of Delaware

K. Andeen

Marquette University

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University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

C. Argueelles

Harvard University

Y. Ashida

University of Utah

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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University of Delaware

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South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

A. V. Balagopal

University of Wisconsin Madison

M. Baricevic

University of Wisconsin Madison

S. W. Barwick

University of California at Irvine (UCI)

V. Basu

University of Wisconsin Madison

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University of California at Berkeley

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Ohio State University

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University of Rochester

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University of Maryland

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University of Padua

D. Z. Besson

University of Kansas

E. Blaufuss

University of Maryland

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

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Harvard University

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University of Padua

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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Uppsala University

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University of Padua

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University of Copenhagen

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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University of Adelaide

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Drexel University

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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SUNY Stony Brook

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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Astrophysical Journal

0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)

Vol. 964 1 40

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/ad18d6

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