Search for high-energy muon neutrinos from the "naked-eye" GRB 080319B with the IceCube neutrino telescope

TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for high-energy muon neutrinos from the "naked-eye" GRB 080319B with the IceCube neutrino telescope

AU - Abbasi, R.

AU - Abdou, Y.

AU - Abu-Zayyad, T.

AU - Adams, J.

AU - Aguilar, J.A.

AU - Koskinen, David Jason

PY - 2009/7/2

Y1 - 2009/7/2

N2 - We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.1 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66 s and an extended window of about 300 s around the GRB, no excess was found above background. The 90% CL upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.5x10^-3 erg cm^-2 in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.

AB - We report on a search with the IceCube detector for high-energy muon neutrinos from GRB 080319B, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever observed. The fireball model predicts that a mean of 0.1 events should be detected by IceCube for a bulk Lorentz boost of the jet of 300. In both the direct on-time window of 66 s and an extended window of about 300 s around the GRB, no excess was found above background. The 90% CL upper limit on the number of track-like events from the GRB is 2.7, corresponding to a muon neutrino fluence limit of 9.5x10^-3 erg cm^-2 in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.

KW - astro-ph.HE

U2 - 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721

DO - 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

SN - 0004-637X

VL - 701

JO - Astrophysical Journal

JF - Astrophysical Journal

IS - 2

M1 - 1721

ER -