Author affiliations
1 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, U.S.A.
2 Universidad del Atlantico, Carrera 30 No. 8-49, Puerto Colombia, Atlantico, Colombia
3 Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, India
4 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A.
5 Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
6 Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, U.S.A.
7 Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi 682 022, India
8 Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1875, U.S.A.
9 Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic
10 University of Dallas, 1845 E Northgate Drive, Irving, Texas 75062 U.S.A.
11 Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
12 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, U.S.A.
13 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, 74690-900, Brazil
14 Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, 781 039, India
15 Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.
16 Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, U.S.A.
17 Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 502 205, India
18 School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500 046, India
19 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago IL 60616, U.S.A.
20 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, U.S.A.
21 Institute of Computer Science, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 07 Prague, Czech Republic
22 Institute for Nuclear Research of Russia, Academy of Sciences 7a, 60th October Anniversary prospect, Moscow 117312, Russia
23 Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic
24 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, U.S.A.
25 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, U.S.A.
26 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow region 141980, Russia
27 Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics Division, Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia
28 Universidad del Magdalena, Carrera 32 No 22–08 Santa Marta, Colombia
29 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, U.S.A.
30 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, U.S.A.
31 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, U.S.A.
32 University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, U.S.A.
33 Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160 014, India
34 Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, U.S.A.
35 Department of Physics, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama 36688, U.S.A.
36 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, U.S.A.
37 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, U.S.A.
38 Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, U.S.A.
39 Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.
40 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom
41 Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13210, U.S.A.
42 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, U.S.A.
43 Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, U.S.A.
44 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, U.S.A.
45 Physics and Astronomy Dept., University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
46 Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, U.S.A.
47 Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67206, U.S.A.
48 Department of Physics, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, U.S.A.
49 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, U.S.A.
(10 MeV). This signature provides a means to study the dominant mode of energy release for a core-collapse supernova occurring in our galaxy. We describe the data-driven software trigger system developed and employed by the NOvA experiment to identify and record neutrino data from nearby galactic supernovae. This technique has been used by NOvA to self-trigger on potential core-collapse supernovae in our galaxy, with an estimated sensitivity reaching out to 10 kpc distance while achieving a detection efficiency of 23% to 49% for supernovae from progenitor stars with masses of 9.6 M⊙ to 27 M⊙, respectively.