@article{bfb0bcce6cf64878baad59f698f5dde5,
title = "Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory",
abstract = "The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merger of this binary was also recorded by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM), and the Anti-Coincidence Shield for the Spectrometer for the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), indicating particle acceleration by the source. The precise location of the event was determined by optical detections of emission following the merger. We searched for high-energy neutrinos from the merger in the GeV-EeV energy range using the Antares, IceCube, and Pierre Auger Observatories. No neutrinos directionally coincident with the source were detected within ± 500 s around the merger time. Additionally, no MeV neutrino burst signal was detected coincident with the merger. We further carried out an extended search in the direction of the source for high-energy neutrinos within the 14 day period following the merger, but found no evidence of emission. We used these results to probe dissipation mechanisms in relativistic outflows driven by the binary neutron star merger. The non-detection is consistent with model predictions of short GRBs observed at a large off-axis angle.",
keywords = "gamma-ray burst: general, gravitational waves, neutrinos",
author = "{Antares Collaboration} and {Icecube Collaboration} and {Pierre Auger Collaboration} and {LIGO Scientific Collaboration} and {Virgo Collaboration} and Coelho, {J. A.B.} and V. Giordano and James, {C. W.} and Aartsen, {M. G.} and J. Adams and T. Anderson and X. Bai and Barwick, {S. W.} and Beatty, {J. J.} and J. Casey and E. Cheung and K. Clark and Collin, {G. H.} and Cowen, {D. F.} and M. Day and E. Friedman and L. Gerhardt and A. Goldschmidt and D. Grant and Hill, {G. C.} and F. Huang and Jones, {B. J.P.} and Kelley, {J. L.} and J. Kim and Liu, {Q. R.} and L. Lu and J. Madsen and K. Meagher and Moore, {R. W.} and Price, {P. B.} and R. Reimann and S. Robertson and T. Schmidt and A. Schneider and M. Song and Sullivan, {G. W.} and M. Sutherland and Tobin, {M. N.} and A. Wallace and C. Weaver and Whelan, {B. J.} and Williams, {D. R.} and L. Wills and J. Wood and Wood, {T. R.} and Xu, {D. L.} and Xu, {X. W.} and Y. Xu and Clay, {R. W.} and Cooper, {M. J.} and Dawson, {B. R.} and Day, {J. A.} and Harrison, {T. A.} and J. Kemp and M. Malacari and M{\"u}ller, {A. L.} and S. M{\"u}ller and Nguyen, {P. H.} and T. Paul and C. Peters and J. Poh and A. Saleh and A. Schulz and Watson, {A. A.} and M. Weber and B. Zimmermann and Abbott, {B. P.} and R. Abbott and Abbott, {T. D.} and C. Adams and T. Adams and B. Allen and G. Allen and Anderson, {S. B.} and Anderson, {W. G.} and Aston, {S. M.} and C. Austin and Bader, {M. K.M.} and J. Bartlett and C. Beer and Bell, {A. S.} and Berry, {C. P.L.} and Bilenko, {I. A.} and J. Blackman and Blair, {C. D.} and Blair, {D. G.} and M. Boer and S. Bose and Brady, {P. R.} and Brooks, {A. F.} and Brown, {D. A.} and Brown, {D. A.} and Buchanan, {C. C.} and H. Cao and J. Cao and M. Chan and Chen, {H. Y.} and X. Chen and Y. Chen and Cheng, {H. P.} and H. Chia and Q. Chu and Chua, {A. J.K.} and S. Chua and Chung, {A. K.W.} and S. Chung and Clark, {J. A.} and D. Cohen and Cooper, {S. J.} and Costa, {C. A.} and Cowan, {E. 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Singh and Slagmolen, {B. J.J.} and B. Smith and Smith, {J. R.} and Smith, {R. J.E.} and Spencer, {A. P.} and Srivastava, {A. K.} and Stevenson, {S. P.} and R. Stone and Strigin, {S. E.} and L. Sun and Sutton, {P. J.} and C. Talbot and Taylor, {J. A.} and R. Taylor and Thomas, {E. G.} and M. Thomas and P. Thomas and S. Tiwari and M. Tse and {Van Heijningen}, {J. V.} and Veitch, {P. J.} and Vine, {D. J.} and Vyatchanin, {S. P.} and Wade, {L. E.} and M. Walker and L. Wallace and S. Walsh and G. Wang and H. Wang and Wang, {J. Z.} and Wang, {W. H.} and Wang, {Y. F.} and Ward, {R. L.} and J. Warner and Wei, {L. W.} and Weinstein, {A. J.} and R. Weiss and L. Wen and Whelan, {J. T.} and Williams, {D. R.} and Williams, {R. D.} and Williamson, {A. R.} and Willis, {J. L.} and Wong, {K. W.K.} and Wright, {J. L.} and Wu, {D. S.} and Wysocki, {D. M.} and S. Xiao and H. Yamamoto and L. Yang and Yap, {M. J.} and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and L. Zhang and M. Zhang and T. Zhang and Zhang, {Y. H.} and C. Zhao and M. Zhou and Z. Zhou and Zhu, {S. J.} and Zhu, {X. J.}",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3847/2041-8213/aa9aed",
language = "English",
volume = "850",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal Letters",
issn = "2041-8205",
publisher = "IOP Publishing",
number = "2",
}