Seminars and Journal Clubs

Searches for neutrino emission from gravitational wave sources [BEL-center:pheno]

by Mathieu Lamoureux (CP3)

Europe/Brussels
Description

Since 2015, the LIGO, Virgo (recently joined by KAGRA) interferometers have detected gravitational wave emissions from mergers of compact objects, namely neutron stars and black holes. Neutrinos may also be produced in related relativistic outflows and hadronic interactions. I will present the follow-ups of gravitational wave events detected during the O3 run in 2019--2020 and reported in the GWTC-2, GWTC-2.1, and GWTC-3 catalogues, with the Super-Kamiokande, ANTARES, and KM3NeT neutrino detectors. These experiments exploit various event topologies and are sensitive to neutrino energies from MeV to PeV. The observations in time coincidence with the gravitational wave alerts are converted into constraints on the neutrino emission from these sources. I will also cover the results of population studies and the prospects for future follow-ups during the next LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA run starting in May.