Timing coincidence search for supernova neutrinos with optical transient surveys

Understand

Neutrinos allow the probing of stellar interiors during core collapse, helping to understand the different stages and processes in the collapse.

• To date, supernova neutrinos have only been detected from a single event, SN1987A.
• Most studies from then on have focused on two distance extremes; Galactic/local supernovae and all past cosmic supernovae forming the diffuse supernova neutrino background.
• We focus on the intermediate distance regime as a target for detecting core-collapse supernova neutrinos at next generation detectors like Hyper-Kamiokande.