Samvel Ter-Antonyan and Ali Fazely for ICECUBE COLLABORATION
High Energy and Astrophysics group at the Southern University, Baton Rouge

samvel_terantonyan@subr.edu





Does the IceCube detect a high energy (~GeV) neutrino flux from the Sun?

Does the IceCube SN trigger lead the Solar CME?

    Solar Flare Time     
(Lasco C2) 		ICECUBE
    SN Trigger Time     		 Trigger
    Significance    		 Comment
    
2011-12-08 09:122011-12-06 12:22:148.24Large Solar Filament (SDO)
13 SN triggers/day(Dec.8)
2011-10-18 07:362011-10-18 03:24:497.09
2011-10-13 13:252011-10-13 11:11:186.14
2011-10-13 00:192011-10-12 23:36:206.71
2011-10-04 12:362011-10-04 11:36:176.09picture
2011-10-01 09:242011-09-30 23:16:517.14
2011-09-30 19:47:286.63
2011-10-01 20:482011-10-01 20:39:286.00Comet
2011-10-01 00:482011-09-30 23:16:517.14
2011-09-30 19:47:286.63
2011-09-29 04:482011-09-28 12:28:587.00
2011-09-23 12:002011-09-23 07:19:516.963 days
2011-09-22 10:362011-09-22 07:43:556.36
2011-09-18 23:052011-09-18 15:00:356.953 days
2011-09-16 16:122011-09-16 10:59:326.25
2011-09-14 20:002011-09-14 15:42:076.33Comet
2011-09-13 12:242011-09-12 23:26:076.20
2011-09-08 21:482011-09-08 13:43:066.54
2011-09-07 20:002011-09-07 03:13:346.55
2011-09-06 10:362011-09-06 06:07:387.04picture
2011-09-05 22:122011-09-05 19:28:036.54
2011-09-05 00:122011-09-04 17:43:096.90
2011-09-04 04:242011-09-03 23:52:086.69
2011-09-01 07:002011-09-01 00:45:046.28
2011-08-11 13:252011-08-11 13:22:267.15picture
2011-03-08 17:362011-03-08 17:30:157.12picture
2011-03-08 17:00:296.25
2011-03-08 14:41:157.09
2011-03-08 03:362011-03-08 03:31:236.61picture

Hot Events and Open Questions

Flare 2011-09-06 10:36 / SN Trigger: 2011-09-06 06:07:38, Significance=7.04


Flare 2011-10-04


Twin comets impact the Sun and following pair of Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) are observed.
Impact times: 06/01 ~21:30 and 06/02 ~02:00.
CME times: 06/02 ~02:00 and 06/02 ~08:00.

Click to see video

Comet hits the Sun in Oct.1.2011 (Lasco C2 data)

Does the comet and Sun collision result in IceCube SN trigger?

A comet can be the cause of a strong turbulence in the photosphere
and even in the upper level of convection zone triggering the processes
of magnetic reconnections.


Event above in Youtube animation


TWO EXAMPLES OF CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME) FROM THE SUN AND LEADING ICECUBE SN TRIGGERS

Do the ICECUBE SN triggers lead the large Solar Flare with CME?



Hot event: ICECUBE ST trigger (2011-08-11 13:22:26, Significance=7.15) leads CME from the Sun



Update ICECUBE and Solar data by September.1.2011


Hypothesis of High Energy Solar Neutrino

Zoom of Sunspot


Figure 1. Timebase of monthly Sunspot numbers and ICECUBE SN trigger numbers.


Figure 2. Fourier transform for Solar sunspot rate and Icecube SN trigger rate from Fig.1 above.




Figure 3. Timebase of daily sunspot numbers and ICECUBE SN trigger numbers.



Figure 4. Timebase of GOES-15 X-ray intensity, Solar radio flux and IceCube SN trigger significance.
One-to-one correlations are not observed, however, the similarity of clusters are well seen.



Figure 5. Fourier transform for Solar X-ray rate from GOES-15 data and IceCube SN signal strength rate.
Timebase was binned with 108h bins for total 27 bins.



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Last update: 11.03.2011