Search for High-Energy Muon Neutrinos from the "Naked-Eye" GRB 080319B with the IceCube Neutrino Telescope
Abstract
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 9.5 × 10-3 erg cm-2 in the energy range between 120 TeV and 2.2 PeV, which contains 90% of the expected events.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- August 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1721
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0902.0131
- Bibcode:
- 2009ApJ...701.1721A
- Keywords:
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- gamma rays: bursts;
- methods: data analysis;
- neutrinos;
- telescopes;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 26 pages, 8 figures, version 3 corrects some typos in the formulae A2 and A5. The errors are not present in the code used in the analysis and hence none of the plots or results is affected