Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 19-23Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.10.007
Keywords
Neutrinos; Supernovae; Gravitational waves
Funding
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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Core-collapse supernovae are among the prime candidate sources of high energy neutrinos. Accordingly, the IceCube collaboration has started a program to search for such a signal. IceCube operates an online search for neutrino bursts, forwarding the directions of candidate events to a network of optical telescopes for immediate follow-up observations. If a supernova is identified from the optical observations, in addition to a directional coincidence a temporal gamma-nu coincidence also needs to be established. To achieve this, we present a method for estimating the supernova explosion time from its light curve using a simple model. We test the model with supernova light curve data from SN1987A, SN2006aj and SN2008D and show that the explosion times can be determined with an accuracy of better than a few hours. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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