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A SEARCH for ELECTRON ANTINEUTRINOS ASSOCIATED with GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENTS GW150914 and GW151226 USING KAMLAND
- Author(s): Gando, A
- Gando, Y
- Hachiya, T
- Hayashi, A
- Hayashida, S
- Ikeda, H
- Inoue, K
- Ishidoshiro, K
- Karino, Y
- Koga, M
- Matsuda, S
- Mitsui, T
- Nakamura, K
- Obara, S
- Oura, T
- Ozaki, H
- Shimizu, I
- Shirahata, Y
- Shirai, J
- Suzuki, A
- Takai, T
- Tamae, K
- Teraoka, Y
- Ueshima, K
- Watanabe, H
- Kozlov, A
- Takemoto, Y
- Yoshida, S
- Fushimi, K
- Piepke, A
- Banks, TI
- Berger, BE
- Fujikawa, BK
- O'Donnell, T
- Learned, JG
- Maricic, J
- Sakai, M
- Winslow, LA
- Krupczak, E
- Ouellet, J
- Efremenko, Y
- Karwowski, HJ
- Markoff, DM
- Tornow, W
- Detwiler, JA
- Enomoto, S
- Decowski, MP
- et al.
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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/829/2/L34Abstract
© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.. We present a search, using KamLAND, a kiloton-scale anti-neutrino detector, for low-energy anti-neutrino events that were coincident with the gravitational-wave (GW) events GW150914 and GW151226, and the candidate event LVT151012. We find no inverse beta-decay neutrino events within ±500 s of either GW signal. This non-detection is used to constrain the electron anti-neutrino fluence and the total integrated luminosity of the astrophysical sources.