PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Multi Messenger and Gravitational Wave (MM&GW)
Optical-Infrared Searches for Identifying the IceCube High-Energy Neutrino Sources
T. Morokuma
Full text: pdf
Pre-published on: August 18, 2023
Published on:
Abstract
We present our follow-up observations in optical and infrared wavelengths
to identify electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of high-energy neutrinos detected
with the IceCube experiment.
Our observing facilities include a wide range of telescope apertures
from small-size ($\sim0.5$m) to the largest-size ($\sim8$m) in the world. Unique wide-field instruments are also utilized;
Hyper Suprime-Cam (1.8 deg$^2$ field-of-view) on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope and
Tomo-e Gozen (20 deg$^2$ field-of-view) on the 1.05-m Kiso Schmidt telescope.
We first aim for searching for candidates of highly variable blazars (including those with red optical colors dominated by their host galaxies rather than blazar components), peculiar supernovae (SNe),
and tidal disruption events (TDEs).
We also conduct follow-up spectroscopic observations to identify the nature and determine the redshift of the candidates to claim the coincidence of the source with the neutrino detection. We successfully identified the EM counterpart of the high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A, TXS 0506+056, with quick detection of the rapid near-infrared brightness change with HONIR on the 1.5-m Kanata telescope. After this variability detection in addition to the Fermi/LAT flux increase, world-wide follow-up observations were intensively conducted and the coincidence with the neutrino detection was found. We found that TXS 0506+056 showed a large-amplitude ($\sim1.0$ mag) variability in >several-day time scale or longer with the bluer-when-brighter trend, although no significant variability was detected in a time scale of $<1$-day. Structure function analyses indicate that TXS 0506+056 is not a special blazar in terms of optical variability.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1559
How to cite

Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.

Open Access
Creative Commons LicenseCopyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.