Search for electron antineutrinos associated with gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226 using KamLAND

Abstract

We present a search for low energy antineutrino events coincident with the gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226, and the candidate event LVT151012 using KamLAND, a kiloton-scale antineutrino detector. We find no inverse beta-decay neutrino events within $\pm 500$ seconds of either gravitational wave signal. This non-detection is used to constrain the electron antineutrino fluence and the luminosity of the astrophysical sources.

11 pages, 4 figures, as published in ApJL. Updated to replace power law spectrum with Fermi Dirac spectrum