Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube
Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) have infrared luminosities LIR ≥ 1012L⊙, making them the most luminous objects in the infrared sky. These dusty objects are generally powered by starbursts with star formation rates that exceed 100 M⊙ yr−1, possibly combined with a contribution from an active...
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author | Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Anton, G Arguelles, C Ashida, Y Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, AV Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boddenberg, M Bontempo, F Borowka, J Boser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Burley, RT |
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description | Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) have infrared luminosities LIR ≥ 1012L⊙, making them the most luminous objects in the infrared sky. These dusty objects are generally powered by starbursts with star formation rates that exceed 100 M⊙ yr−1, possibly combined with a contribution from an active galactic nucleus. Such environments make ULIRGs plausible sources of astrophysical high-energy neutrinos, which can be observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. We present a stacking search for high-energy neutrinos from a representative sample of 75 ULIRGs with redshift z ≤ 0.13 using 7.5 yr of IceCube data. The results are consistent with a background-only observation, yielding upper limits on the neutrino flux from these 75 ULIRGs. For an unbroken E−2.5 power-law spectrum, we report an upper limit on the stacked flux ${{\rm{\Phi }}}_{{\nu }_{\mu }+{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }}^{90 \% }=3.24\times {10}^{-14}\,{\mathrm{TeV}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}\,{(E/10\,\mathrm{TeV})}^{-2.5}$ at 90% confidence level. In addition, we constrain the contribution of the ULIRG source population to the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux as well as model predictions. |
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spelling | ftuloxford:oai:ora.ox.ac.uk:uuid:c37a58e9-4577-4bc0-8ea0-c7c23148a8f4 2025-01-17T00:52:09+00:00 Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Anton, G Arguelles, C Ashida, Y Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, AV Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boddenberg, M Bontempo, F Borowka, J Boser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Burley, RT 2022-03-22 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3cb6 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c37a58e9-4577-4bc0-8ea0-c7c23148a8f4 eng eng American Astronomical Society doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac3cb6 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c37a58e9-4577-4bc0-8ea0-c7c23148a8f4 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3cb6 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC Attribution (CC BY) CC-BY Journal article 2022 ftuloxford https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3cb6 2022-06-28T20:23:14Z Ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) have infrared luminosities LIR ≥ 1012L⊙, making them the most luminous objects in the infrared sky. These dusty objects are generally powered by starbursts with star formation rates that exceed 100 M⊙ yr−1, possibly combined with a contribution from an active galactic nucleus. Such environments make ULIRGs plausible sources of astrophysical high-energy neutrinos, which can be observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. We present a stacking search for high-energy neutrinos from a representative sample of 75 ULIRGs with redshift z ≤ 0.13 using 7.5 yr of IceCube data. The results are consistent with a background-only observation, yielding upper limits on the neutrino flux from these 75 ULIRGs. For an unbroken E−2.5 power-law spectrum, we report an upper limit on the stacked flux ${{\rm{\Phi }}}_{{\nu }_{\mu }+{\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }}^{90 \% }=3.24\times {10}^{-14}\,{\mathrm{TeV}}^{-1}\,{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}\,{(E/10\,\mathrm{TeV})}^{-2.5}$ at 90% confidence level. In addition, we constrain the contribution of the ULIRG source population to the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux as well as model predictions. Article in Journal/Newspaper South pole ORA - Oxford University Research Archive South Pole The Astrophysical Journal 926 1 59 |
spellingShingle | Abbasi, R Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Alispach, C Jr, AAA Amin, NM An, R Andeen, K Anderson, T Anton, G Arguelles, C Ashida, Y Axani, S Bai, X Balagopal, AV Barbano, A Barwick, SW Bastian, B Basu, V Baur, S Bay, R Beatty, JJ Becker, K-H Tjus, JB Bellenghi, C BenZvi, S Berley, D Bernardini, E Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Blaufuss, E Blot, S Boddenberg, M Bontempo, F Borowka, J Boser, S Botner, O Boettcher, J Bourbeau, E Bradascio, F Braun, J Bron, S Brostean-Kaiser, J Browne, S Burgman, A Burley, RT Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title | Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title_full | Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title_fullStr | Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title_full_unstemmed | Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title_short | Search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
title_sort | search for high-energy neutrinos from ultraluminous infrared galaxies with icecube |
url | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3cb6 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c37a58e9-4577-4bc0-8ea0-c7c23148a8f4 |