Journal article
Is the High-energy Neutrino Event IceCube-200530A Associated with a Hydrogen-rich Superluminous Supernova?
T Pitik, I Tamborra, CR Angus, K Auchettl
Astrophysical Journal | Published : 2022
Abstract
The Zwicky Transient Facility follow-up campaign of alerts released by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has led to the likely identification of the transient AT2019fdr as the source of the neutrino event IC200530A. AT2019fdr was initially suggested to be a tidal disruption event in a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy. However, the combination of its spectral properties, color evolution, and feature-rich light curve suggests that AT2019fdr may be a Type IIn superluminous supernova. In the latter scenario, IC200530A may have been produced via inelastic proton-proton collisions between the relativistic protons accelerated at the forward shock and the cold protons of the circumstellar medium. Here, w..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Markus Ahlers and Anna Franckowiak for insightful discussions. This project has received funding from the Villum Foundation (Projects No.s 13164, 37358, 16599, and 25501), the Carlsberg Foundation (CF18-0183), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through Sonderforschungbereich SFB 1258 "Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics" (NDM), and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013. We acknowledge the use of public data from the Swift data archive. The results presented in this paper are based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin 48 inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. The Zwicky Transient Facility is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST-1440341 and a collaboration including Caltech, the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, Los Alamos National Laboratories, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin (UW) at Milwaukee, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by Caltech Optical Observatories, IPAC, and UW. This work has also made use of data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) project. The ATLAS project is primarily funded to search for near-Earth asteroids through NASA grants NN12AR55G, 80NSSC18K0284, and 80NSSC18K1575; byproducts of the Near-Earth Object (NEO) search include images and catalogs from the survey area. This work was partially funded by Kepler/K2 grant J1944/80NSSC19K0112 and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) GO-15889, and STFC grants ST/T000198/1 and ST/S006109/1. The ATLAS science products have been made possible through the contributions of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, the Queen's University Belfast, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the South African Astronomical Observatory, and the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Chile.