FIRST NEUTRINO POINT-SOURCE RESULTS FROM THE 22 STRING ICECUBE DETECTORShow others and affiliations
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2009 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 701Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We present new results of searches for neutrino point sources in the northern sky, using data recorded in 2007-2008 with 22 strings of the IceCube detector (approximately one-fourth of the planned total) and 275.7 days of live time. The final sample of 5114 neutrino candidate events agrees well with the expected background of atmospheric muon neutrinos and a small component of atmospheric muons. No evidence of a point source is found, with the most significant excess of events in the sky at 2.2 sigma after accounting for all trials. The average upper limit over the northern sky for point sources of muon-neutrinos with E(-2) spectrum is E(2) Phi(v mu) < 1.4 x 10(-11) TeV cm(-2) s(-1), in the energy range from 3 TeV to 3 PeV, improving the previous best average upper limit by the AMANDA-II detector by a factor of 2.
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2009. Vol. 701
Keywords [en]
acceleration of particles cosmic rays neutrinos high-energy neutrinos gamma-rays telescopes astronomy Astronomy & Astrophysics
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SWEDARP, IceCube
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URN: urn:nbn:se:polar:diva-2010DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/701/1/l47OAI: oai:DiVA.org:polar-2010DiVA, id: diva2:811956
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Department of Energy; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI); Swedish Research Council; Swedish Polar Research Secretariat; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany; Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO); Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); SNF (Switzerland); EU Marie Curie OIF Program; Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil We acknowledge the support from the following agencies: U. S. National Science Foundation-Office of Polar Program, U. S. National Science Foundation-Physics Division, University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, U. S. Department of Energy, and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) grid computing resources; Swedish Research Council, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany; Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-FWO), Flanders Institute to encourage scientific and technological research in industry (IWT), Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo); the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); M. Ribordy acknowledges the support of the SNF (Switzerland); A. Kappes and A. Gross acknowledge support by the EU Marie Curie OIF Program; J. P. Rodrigues acknowledges support by the Capes Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil. 34 Iop publishing ltd Bristol Astronomy & Astrophysics
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