11–15 Jul 2022
Niels Bohr Institute
Europe/Copenhagen timezone
Zoom room: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/61850277164?pwd=bW9yN3ltTkFXOXRacjNBSUYvWHZYZz09

Rapid Response to Extraordinary Events: the Gamma-Ray Follow Up (GFU) platform for IceCube

11 Jul 2022, 14:36
12m
Auditorium A (NBI)

Auditorium A

NBI

Speaker

Caterina Boscolo Meneguolo

Description

The IceCube discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos is a milestone in multi-messenger astronomy. Time-integrated searches for point-like neutrino sources have failed so far because of large backgrounds and weak signals. The IceCube capability of observing the sky with a full duty cycle enables the search for transient neutrino emissions and provides alerts to the community to encourage searches for electromagnetic counterpart of rapidly fading sources.
In this talk, we will present the Gamma-Ray Follow Up platform, created to identify good muon neutrino candidates used to generate and send alerts to the astrophysical community. Results will be presented of the most significant neutrino flares recorded so far.

Primary authors

Caterina Boscolo Meneguolo Elisa Bernardini (University of Padova, IceCube)

Co-authors

Konstancja Satalecka Elena Manao (University of Padova)

Presentation materials