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Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet

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On February 17, 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with coming from the same point in the sky. Such a triplet is expected once every 13.7 years as a random coincidence of background events. However, considering the lifetime of the follow-up program the probability of detecting at least one triplet from atmospheric background is 32%. Follow-up observatories were notified in order to search for an electromagnetic counterpart. Observations were obtained by Swift's X-ray telescope, by ASAS-SN, LCO and MASTER at optical wavelengths, and by VERITAS in the very-high-energy gamma-ray regime. Moreover, the Swift BAT serendipitously observed the location 100 s after the first neutrino was detected, and data from the Fermi LAT and HAWC observatory were analyzed. We present details of the neutrino triplet and the follow-up observations. No likely electromagnetic counterpart was detected, and we discuss the implications of these constraints on candidate neutrino sources such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and active galactic nucleus flares. This study illustrates the potential of and challenges for future follow-up campaigns.
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astroparticle physics, neutrinos, gamma-ray burst: general, supernovae: general, galaxies: active, X-rays: bursts, GAMMA-RAY BURSTS, GRB OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, SWIFT-BAT SURVEY, ALL-SKY SURVEY, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, TIDAL DISRUPTION, ALERT SYSTEM, EMISSION

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Aartsen, MG, et al. “Multiwavelength Follow-up of a Rare IceCube Neutrino Multiplet.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, vol. 607, 2017, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201730620.
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Aartsen, M., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., … Soumagnac, M. (2017). Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 607. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730620
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Aartsen, MG, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, I Al Samarai, et al. 2017. “Multiwavelength Follow-up of a Rare IceCube Neutrino Multiplet.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 607. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730620.
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Aartsen, MG, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, I Al Samarai, D Altmann, K Andeen, T Anderson, I Ansseau, G Anton, M Archinger, C Arguelles, J Auffenberg, S Axani, X Bai, SW Barwick, V Baum, R Bay, JJ Beatty, J Becker Tjus, K-H Becker, S BenZvi, D Berley, E Bernardini, A Bernhard, DZ Besson, G Binder, D Bindig, E Blaufuss, S Blot, C Bohm, M Boerner, F Bos, D Bose, S Boeser, O Botner, J Braun, L Brayeur, H-P Bretz, S Bron, A Burgman, T Carver, M Casier, E Cheung, D Chirkin, A Christov, K Clark, L Classen, S Coenders, GH Collin, JM Conrad, DF Cowen, R Cross, M Day, JPAM de Andre, C De Clercq, E del Pino Rosendo, H Dembinski, Sam De Ridder, P Desiati, KD de Vries, G de Wasseige, M de With, T DeYoung, V di Lorenzo, H Dujmovic, JP Dumm, M Dunkman, B Eberhardt, T Ehrhardt, B Eichmann, P Eller, S Euler, PA Evenson, S Fahey, AR Fazely, J Feintzeig, J Felde, K Filimonov, C Finley, S Flis, C-C Foesig, A Franckowiak, E Friedman, T Fuchs, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, L Gerhardt, K Ghorbani, W Giang, L Gladstone, T Glauch, T Gluesekamp, A Goldschmidt, JG Gonzalez, D Grant, Z Griffith, C Haack, A Hallgren, F Halzen, E Hansen, T Hansmann, K Hanson, D Hebecker, D Heereman, K Helbing, R Hellauer, S Hickford, J Hignight, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, R Hoffmann, K Hoshina, F Huang, M Huber, K Hultqvist, S In, A Ishihara, E Jacobi, GS Japaridze, M Jeong, K Jero, BJP Jones, W Kang, A Kappes, T Karg, A Karle, U Katz, M Kauer, A Keivani, JL Kelley, A Kheirandish, J Kim, M Kim, T Kintscher, J Kiryluk, T Kittler, SR Klein, G Kohnen, R Koirala, H Kolanoski, R Konietz, L Koepke, C Kopper, S Kopper, DJ Koskinen, M Kowalski, K Krings, M Kroll, G Krueckl, C Krueger, J Kunnen, S Kunwar, N Kurahashi, T Kuwabara, A Kyriacou, Mathieu Labare, JL Lanfranchi, MJ Larson, F Lauber, M Lesiak-Bzdak, M Leuermann, L Lu, J Luenemann, J Madsen, G Maggi, KBM Mahn, S Mancina, M Mandelartz, R Maruyama, K Mase, R Maunu, F McNally, K Meagher, M Medici, M Meier, T Menne, G Merino, T Meures, S Miarecki, J Micallef, G Momente, T Montaruli, M Moulai, R Nahnhauer, U Naumann, G Neer, H Niederhausen, SC Nowicki, DR Nygren, A Obertacke Pollmann, A Olivas, A O’Murchadha, T Palczewski, H Pandya, DV Pankova, P Peiffer, O Penek, JA Pepper, C Perez de los Heros, D Pieloth, E Pinat, PB Price, GT Przybylski, M Quinnan, C Raab, L Raedel, M Rameez, K Rawlins, R Reimann, B Relethford, M Relich, E Resconi, W Rhode, M Richman, B Riedel, S Robertson, M Rongen, C Rott, T Ruhe, Dirk Ryckbosch, D Rysewyk, L Sabbatini, SE Sanchez Herrera, A Sandrock, J Sandroos, S Sarkar, K Satalecka, P Schlunder, T Schmidt, S Schoenen, S Schoeneberg, L Schumacher, D Seckel, S Seunarine, D Soldin, M Song, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, J Stachurska, T Stanev, A Stasik, J Stettner, A Steuer, T Stezelberger, RG Stokstad, A Stoessl, R Stroem, NL Strotjohann, GW Sullivan, M Sutherland, H Taavola, I Taboada, J Tatar, F Tenholt, S Ter-Antonyan, A Terliuk, G Tesic, S Tilav, PA Toale, MN Tobin, S Toscano, D Tosi, M Tselengidou, CF Tung, A Turcati, E Unger, M Usner, J Vandenbroucke, N van Eijndhoven, Sander Vanheule, M van Rossem, J van Santen, M Vehring, M Voge, E Vogel, Matthias Vraeghe, C Walck, A Wallace, M Wallraff, N Wandkowsky, A Waza, Ch Weaver, MJ Weiss, C Wendt, S Westerhoff, BJ Whelan, S Wickmann, K Wiebe, CH Wiebusch, L Wille, DR Williams, L Wills, M Wolf, TR Wood, E Woolsey, K Woschnagg, DL Xu, XW Xu, Y Xu, JP Yanez, G Yodh, S Yoshida, M Zoll, KZ Stanek, BJ Shappee, CS Kochanek, TW-S Holoien, JL Prieto, DB Fox, JJ DeLaunay, CF Turley, SD Barthelmy, AY Lien, P Meszaros, K Murase, D Kocevski, R Buehler, M Giomi, JL Racusin, A Albert, R Alfaro, C Alvarez, JD Alvarez, R Arceo, JC Arteaga-Velazquez, HA Ayala Solares, AS Barber, N Baustista-Elivar, A Becerril, E Belmont-Moreno, A Bernal, C Brisbois, KS Caballero-Mora, T Capistran, A Carraminana, S Casanova, M Castillo, U Cotti, S Coutino de Leon, E de la Fuente, C De Leon, R Diaz Hernandez, JC Diaz-Velez, BL Dingus, MA DuVernois, RW Ellsworth, K Engel, DW Fiorino, N Fraija, JA Garcia-Gonzalez, M Gerhardt, A Gonzalez Munoz, MM Gonzalez, JA Goodman, Z Hampel-Arias, JP Harding, S Hernandez, CM Hui, P Huentemeyer, A Iriarte, A Jardin-Blicq, V Joshi, S Kaufmann, A Lara, RJ Lauer, WH Lee, D Lennarz, H Leon Vargas, JT Linnemann, G Luis Raya, R Luna-Garcia, R Lopez-Coto, K Malone, SS Marinelli, O Martinez, I Martinez-Castellanos, J Martinez-Castro, H Martinez-Huerta, JA Matthews, P Miranda-Romagnoli, E Moreno, M Mostafa, L Nellen, M Newbold, MU Nisa, R Noriega-Papaqui, R Pelayo, J Pretz, EG Perez-Perez, Z Ren, CD Rho, C Riviere, D Rosa-Gonzalez, M Rosenberg, F Salesa Greus, A Sandoval, M Schneider, H Schoorlemmer, G Sinnis, AJ Smith, RW Springer, P Surajbali, O Tibolla, K Tollefson, I Torres, TN Ukwatta, L Villasenor, T Weisgarber, IG Wisher, J Wood, T Yapici, A Zepeda, H Zhou, I Arcavi, G Hosseinzadeh, DA Howell, S Valenti, C McCully, VM Lipunov, ES Gorbovskoy, NV Tiurina, PV Balanutsa, AS Kuznetsov, VG Kornilov, V Chazov, NM Budnev, OA Gress, KI Ivanov, AG Tlatov, R Rebolo Lopez, M Serra-Ricart, PA Evans, JA Kennea, N Gehrels, JP Osborne, KL Page, AU Abeysekara, A Archer, W Benbow, R Bird, T Brantseg, V Bugaev, JV Cardenzana, MP Connolly, W Cui, A Falcone, Q Feng, JP Finley, H Fleischhack, L Fortson, A Furniss, S Griffin, J Grube, M Huetten, O Hervet, J Holder, G Hughes, TB Humensky, CA Johnson, P Kaaret, P Kar, N Kelley-Hoskins, M Kertzman, M Krause, S Kumar, MJ Lang, TTY Lin, S McArthur, P Moriarty, R Mukherjee, D Nieto, RA Ong, AN Otte, M Pohl, A Popkow, E Pueschel, J Quinn, K Ragan, PT Reynolds, GT Richards, E Roache, C Rulten, I Sadeh, M Santander, GH Sembroski, D Staszak, S Trepanier, J Tyler, SP Wakely, A Weinstein, P Wilcox, A Wilhelm, DA Williams, B Zitzer, E Bellm, Z Cano, A Gal-Yam, DA Kann, EO Ofek, M Rigault, and M Soumagnac. 2017. “Multiwavelength Follow-up of a Rare IceCube Neutrino Multiplet.” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 607. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201730620.
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Aartsen M, Ackermann M, Adams J, Aguilar J, Ahlers M, Ahrens M, et al. Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. 2017;607.
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M. Aartsen et al., “Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet,” ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, vol. 607, 2017.
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  title        = {{Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet}},
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  volume       = {{607}},
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