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Constraining High-energy Neutrino Emission from Supernovae with IceCube
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article
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Abbasi, R; Ackermann, M; Adams, J; Agarwalla, SK; Aguilar, JA; Ahlers, M; Alameddine, JM; Amin, NM; Andeen, K; Anton, G; Argüelles, C; Ashida, Y; Athanasiadou, S; Axani, SN; Bai, X; V., A Balagopal; Baricevic, M; Barwick, SW; Basu, V; Bay, R; Beatty, JJ; Becker, K-H; Tjus, J Becker; Beise, J; Bellenghi, C; BenZvi, S; Berley, D; Bernardini, E; Besson, DZ; Binder, G; Bindig, D; Blaufuss, E; Blot, S; Bontempo, F; Book, JY; Meneguolo, C Boscolo; Böser, S; Botner, O; Böttcher, J; Bourbeau, E; Braun, J; Brinson, B; Brostean-Kaiser, J; Burley, RT; Busse, RS; Butterfield, D; Campana, MA; Carloni, K; Carnie-Bronca, EG; Chattopadhyay, S; Chen, C; Chen, Z; Chirkin, D; Choi, S; Clark, BA; Classen, L; Coleman, A; Collin, GH; Connolly, A; Conrad, JM; Coppin, P; Correa, P; Countryman, S; Cowen, DF; Dave, P; De Clercq, C; DeLaunay, JJ; López, D Delgado; Dembinski, H; Deoskar, K; Desai, A; Desiati, P; de Vries, KD; de Wasseige, G; DeYoung, T; Diaz, A; Díaz-Vélez, JC; Dittmer, M; Domi, A; Dujmovic, H; DuVernois, MA; Ehrhardt, T; Eller, P; Engel, R; Erpenbeck, H; Evans, J; Evenson, PA; Fan, KL; Fang, K; Fazely, AR; Fedynitch, A; Feigl, N; Fiedlschuster, S; Finley, C; Fischer, L; Fox, D; Franckowiak, A; Friedman, E; Fritz, A; Fürst, P
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 949(1)
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Abstract
Core-collapse supernovae are a promising potential high-energy neutrino source class. We test for correlation between seven years of IceCube neutrino data and a catalog containing more than 1000 core-collapse supernovae of types IIn and IIP and a sample of stripped-envelope supernovae. We search both for neutrino emission from individual supernovae as well as for combined emission from the whole supernova sample, through a stacking analysis. No significant spatial or temporal correlation of neutrinos with the cataloged supernovae was found. All scenarios were tested against the background expectation and together yield an overall p-value of 93%; therefore, they show consistency with the background only. The derived upper limits on the total energy emitted in neutrinos are 1.7 × 1048 erg for stripped-envelope supernovae, 2.8 × 1048 erg for type IIP, and 1.3 × 1049 erg for type IIn SNe, the latter disfavoring models with optimistic assumptions for neutrino production in interacting supernovae. We conclude that stripped-envelope supernovae and supernovae of type IIn do not contribute more than 14.6% and 33.9%, respectively, to the diffuse neutrino flux in the energy range of about [ 103-105] GeV, assuming that the neutrino energy spectrum follows a power-law with an index of −2.5. Under the same assumption, we can only constrain the contribution of type IIP SNe to no more than 59.9%. Thus, core-collapse supernovae of types IIn and stripped-envelope supernovae can both be ruled out as the dominant source of the diffuse neutrino flux under the given assumptions.