Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data
Creators: name: Adrián-Martínez, S.
name: Albert, A.
name: André, M.
name: Anton, G.
name: Ardid, M.
name: Aubert, J. -J.
name: Baret, B.
name: Barrios-Martì, J.
name: Basa, S.
name: Bertin, V.
name: Biagi, S.
name: Bogazzi, C.
name: Bormuth, R.
name: Bou-Cabo, M.
name: Bouwhuis, M. C.
name: Bruijn, R.
name: Brunner, J.
name: Busto, J.
name: Capone, A.
name: Caramete, L.
name: Carr, J.
name: Chiarusi, T.
name: Circella, M.
name: Coniglione, R.
name: Core, L.
name: Costantini, H.
name: Coyle, P.
name: Creusot, A.
name: De Rosa, G.
name: Dekeyser, I.
name: Deschamps, A.
name: DeBonis, G.
name: Distefano, C.
name: Donzaud, C.
name: Dornic, D.
name: Dorosti, Q.
name: Drouhin, D.
name: Dumas, A.
name: Eberl, T.
name: Elsässer, D.
name: Enzenhöfer, A.
name: Escoffier, S.
name: Fehn, K.
name: Felis, I.
name: Fermani, P.
name: Folger, F.
name: Fusco, L. A.
name: Galatà, S.
name: Gay, P.
name: Geißelsöder, S.
name: Geyer, K.
name: Giordano, V.
name: Gleixner, A.
name: Gómez-González, J. P.
name: Graf, K.
name: Guillard, G.
name: van Haren, H.
name: Heijboer, A. J.
name: Hello, Y.
name: Hernández-Rey, J. J.
name: Herold, B.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Hößl, J.
name: Hofestädt, J.
name: Hugon, C.
name: James, C. W.
name: de Jong, M.
name: Kadler, M.
name: Kalekin, O.
name: Kappes, A.
name: Katz, U.
name: Kießling, D.
name: Kooijman, P.
name: Kouchner, A.
name: Kreykenbohm, I.
name: Kulikovskiy, V.
name: Lahmann, R.
name: Lambard, E.
name: Lambard, G.
name: Lefèvre, D.
name: Leonora, E.
name: Loehner, H.
name: Loucatos, S.
name: Mangano, S.
name: Marcelin, M.
name: Margiotta, A.
name: Martínez-Mora, J. A.
name: Martini, S.
name: Mathieu, A.
name: Michael, T.
name: Migliozzi, P.
name: Müller, C.
name: Neff, M.
name: Nezri, E.
name: Palioselitis, D.
name: Păvălaş, G. E.
name: Perrina, C.
name: Popa, V.
name: Pradier, T.
name: Racca, C.
name: Riccobene, G.
name: Richter, R.
name: Roensch, K.
name: Rostovtsev, A.
name: Saldaña, M.
name: Samtleben, D. F. E.
name: Sánchez-Losa, A.
name: Sanguineti, M.
name: Schmid, J.
name: Schnabel, J.
name: Schulte, S.
name: Schüssler, F.
name: Seitz, T.
name: Sieger, C.
name: Spies, A.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Steijger, J. J. M.
name: Stolarczyk, Th.
name: Taiuti, M.
name: Tamburini, C.
name: Tayalati, Y.
name: Trovato, A.
name: Tselengidou, M.
name: Tönnis, C.
name: Vallage, B.
name: Vallée, C.
name: Van Elewyck, V.
name: Visser, E.
name: Vivolo, D.
name: Wagner, S.
name: Wilms, J.
name: de Wolf, E.
name: Yatkin, K.
name: Yepes, H.
name: Zornoza, J. D.
name: Zúñiga, J.
name: Falco, E. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. This strategy is illustrated with a search for cosmic neutrinos in the direction of four distant and gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars. The magnification factor is estimated for each system assuming a singular isothermal profile for the lens. Based on data collected from 2007 to 2012 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope, the strongest constraint is obtained from the lensed quasar B0218+357, providing a limit on the total neutrino luminosity of this source of $1.08\times 10^{46}\,\mathrm{erg}\,\mathrm{s}^{-1}$. This limit is about one order of magnitude lower than those previously obtained in the ANTARES standard point source searches with non-lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, 1 table; abstract shortened and references added