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Astrophysics > High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Title: Searching for joint neutrino and gravitational wave emission from the environment of Active Galactic Nuclei

Abstract: With the observation of gravitational waves from merging compact binary systems, a new observing window of the universe has been opened. Most of the gravitational wave events currently detected are due to the merger of binary black hole systems. One way to better investigate such systems is to look for coincident emission in electromagnetic waves or neutrinos. For typical models of isolated binaries, no such emission is expected. However, one promising class of mergers is that of binary black holes in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei. Such mergers potentially occur at high rates, since these environments naturally have high numbers of black holes, which can efficiently form binaries, merge rapidly, and potentially accrete matter fast due to the surrounding gas. Here, we propose a method to search for coincident gravitational wave and neutrino emission from the location of known AGN, using an unbinned maximum likelihood analysis, and apply it to currently available public data.
Comments: 7 pages, presented at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023)
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
DOI: 10.22323/1.444.1514
Report number: PoS-ICRC2023-1514
Cite as: arXiv:2310.01125 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:2310.01125v1 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)

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From: Matthias Vereecken [view email]
[v1] Mon, 2 Oct 2023 11:55:52 GMT (102kb,D)

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