Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

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Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

S. Adrián-martínez A. Albert M. André G. Anton M. Ardid J. J. Aubert B. Baret J. Barrios-martí S. Basa V. Bertin S. Biagi C. Bogazzi R. Bormuth M. Bou-cabo M. C. Bouwhuis R. Bruijn J. Brunner J. Busto A. Capone L. Caramete J. Carr T. Chiarusi M. Circella R. Coniglione L. Core H. Costantini P. Coyle A. Creusot G. De Rosa I. Dekeyser A. Deschamps G. De Bonis C. Distefano C. Donzaud D. Dornic Q. Dorosti D. Drouhin A. Dumas T. Eberl D. Elsässer A. Enzenhöfer S. Escoffier K. Fehn I. Felis P. Fermani F. Folger L. A. Fusco S. Galatà P. Gay S. Geißelsöder K. Geyer V. Giordano A. Gleixner J. P. Gómez-gonzález K. Graf G. Guillard H. Van Haren A. J. Heijboer Y. Hello J. J. Hernández-rey B. Herold A. Herrero J. Hößl J. Hofestädt C. Hugon C. W. James M. De Jong M. Kadler O. Kalekin A. Kappes U. Katz D. Kießling P. Kooijman A. Kouchner I. Kreykenbohm V. Kulikovskiy R. Lahmann E. Lambard G. Lambard D. Lefèvre E. Leonora H. Loehner S. Loucatos S. Mangano M. Marcelin A. Margiotta J. A. Martínez-mora S. Martini A. Mathieu T. Michael P. Migliozzi C. Müller M. Neff E. Nezri D. Palioselitis G. E. Pəvəlaš C. Perrina V. Popa T. Pradier C. Racca G. Riccobene R. Richter K. Roensch A. Rostovtsev M. Saldaña D. F E Samtleben A. Sánchez-losa M. Sanguineti J. Schmid J. Schnabel S. Schulte F. Schüssler T. Seitz C. Sieger A. Spies M. Spurio J. J M Steijger Th Stolarczyk M. Taiuti C. Tamburini Y. Tayalati A. Trovato M. Tselengidou C. Tönnis B. Vallage C. Vallée V. Van Elewyck E. Visser D. Vivolo S. Wagner J. Wilms E. De Wolf K. Yatkin H. Yepes J. D. Zornoza J. Zúñiga E. E. Falco Sub Subatomic Physics (Sap)Subatomic Physics

subject

Point source Astronomy Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena gravitational lensing FOS: Physical sciences gravitational lensing; neutrino astronomy Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics 01 natural sciences Luminosity neutrino astronomy Neutrino 0103 physical sciences Sensitivity (control systems)Blazar 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)gravitational lensing; neutrino astronomy; Astronomy and Astrophysics COSMIC cancer database 010308 nuclear & particles physics high energy astrophysical neutrinos Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Física Quasar Astronomy and Astrophysics Gravitational lens FISICA APLICADA Neutrino MATEMATICA APLICADA Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]

description

This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. This strategy is illustrated with a search for cosmic neutrinos in the direction of four distant and gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars. The magnification factor is estimated for each system assuming a singular isothermal profile for the lens. Based on data collected from 2007 to 2012 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope, the strongest constraint is obtained from the lensed quasar B0218+357, providing a limit on the total neutrino luminosity of this source of 1.08×10^46 erg s-1. This limit is about one order of magnitude lower than those previously obtained in the ANTARES standard point source searches with non-lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2014-11-01

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1407.8525