Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II

Ahrens, J.; Dewulf, J. P.; Bernardini, Elisa; Hill, G. C.; Binon, F. G.; Hardtke, R.; Gerhardt, L.; Spiczak, G.; Bouchta, A.; Hulth, P. O.; Kopke, L.; Ekstrom, P.; Ganugapati, R.; Steele, D.; Przybylski, G. T.; Lindahl, P.; Wissing, H.; Nahnhauer, R.; Halzen, F.; Desiati, P.; Conrad, J.; Harenberg, T.; Rawlins, K.; Niessen, P.; AMANDA Collaboration; Gross, A.; Davour, A.; Thollander, L.; Geenen, Heiko; De Clercq, C.; Silvestri, A.; Boeser, Sebastian; Schmidt, T.; Perez de los Heros, C.; Biron, A.; Wischnewski, R.; Botner, O.; Schneider, D.; Porrata, R.; Wiedemann, C.; Jacobsen, J.; Stokstad, R. G.; Steffen, P.; Herquet, P.; Price, P. B.; Hanson, K.; Leich, H.; Feser, T.; Bouhali, O.; Chirkin, D.; Ogelman, H.; Rhode, W.; Schlenstedt, S.; Wagner, W.; Olbrechts, Ph.; Solarz, M.; Schinarakis, K.; Sander, H. G.; Hultqvist, K.; Minaeva, Y.; Liubarsky, I.; Taboada, I.; Morse, R.; Boersma, D. J.; McParland, C. P.; Mandli, K.; Castermans, T.; Hubert, D.; Leuthold, M.; Sulanke, K. H.; Hughey, B.; Gaug, M.; Hellwig, M.; Karle, A.; Goldschmidt, A.; Kowalski, M.; Stamatikos, M.; Nygren, D. R.; Hallgren, A.; Cowen, D. F.; Pohl, A. C.; Neunhoffer, T.; Chen, A.; Yodh, G.; Bertrand, D.; Barwick, S. W.; DeYoung, T.; Bai, X.; Walck, C.; Wiebusch, C. H.; Becka, T.; Cooley, J.; Miocinovic, P.; Spiering, C.; Helbing, K.; Messarius, T.; Lamoureux, J. I.; Carius, S.; Madsen, J.; Collin, B.; Richter, S.; Schwarz, R.; Wang, Y. R.; Tilav, S.; Rodriguez Martino, J.; Matis, H. S.; Hundertmark, S.; Burgess, T.; Becker, K. H.; Hauschildt, Tonio; Kuehn, K.; Resconi, E.; Gaisser, T. K.; Marciniewski, P.; Munich, K.; Ribordy, M.; Kestel, M.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.071102

Report/Journal Article

PUBDB-2017-06379

Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II

Ahrens, J. ; Bai, X. ; Barwick, S. W. ; Becka, T. ; Becker, K. H. ; Bernardini, E. ; Bertrand, D. ; Binon, F. G. ; Biron, A. ; Boersma, D. J. ; Boeser, S. ; Botner, O. ; Bouchta, A. ; Bouhali, O. ; Burgess, T. ; Carius, S. ; Castermans, T. ; Chen, A. ; Chirkin, D. ; Collin, B. ; Conrad, J. ; Cooley, J. ; Cowen, D. F. ; Davour, A. ; De Clercq, C. ; DeYoung, T. ; Desiati, P. ; Dewulf, J. P. ; Ekstrom, P. ; Feser, T. ; Gaisser, T. K. ; Ganugapati, R. ; Gaug, M. ; Geenen, H. ; Gerhardt, L. ; Goldschmidt, A. ; Gross, A. ; Hallgren, A. ; Halzen, F. ; Hanson, K. ; Hardtke, R. ; Harenberg, T. ; Hauschildt, T. ; Helbing, K. ; Hellwig, M. ; Herquet, P. ; Hill, G. C. ; Hubert, D. ; Hughey, B. ; Hulth, P. O. ; Hultqvist, K. ; Hundertmark, S. ; Jacobsen, J. ; Karle, A. ; Kestel, M. ; Kopke, L. ; Kowalski, M. ; Kuehn, K. ; Lamoureux, J. I. ; Leich, H. ; Leuthold, M. ; Lindahl, P. ; Liubarsky, I. ; Madsen, J. ; Mandli, K. ; Marciniewski, P. ; Matis, H. S. ; McParland, C. P. ; Messarius, T. ; Minaeva, Y. ; Miocinovic, P. ; Morse, R. ; Munich, K. ; Nahnhauer, R. ; Neunhoffer, T. ; Niessen, P. ; Nygren, D. R. ; Ogelman, H. ; Olbrechts, P. ; Perez de los Heros, C. ; Pohl, A. C. ; Porrata, R. ; Price, P. B. ; Przybylski, G. T. ; Rawlins, K. ; Resconi, E. ; Rhode, W. ; Ribordy, M. ; Richter, S. ; Rodriguez Martino, J. ; Sander, H. G. ; Schinarakis, K. ; Schlenstedt, S. ; Schmidt, T. ; Schneider, D. ; Schwarz, R. ; Silvestri, A. ; Solarz, M. ; Spiczak, G. ; Spiering, C. ; Stamatikos, M. ; Steele, D. ; Steffen, P. ; Stokstad, R. G. ; Sulanke, K. H. ; Taboada, I. ; Thollander, L. ; Tilav, S. ; Wagner, W. ; Walck, C. ; Wang, Y. R. ; Wiebusch, C. H. ; Wiedemann, C. ; Wischnewski, R. ; Wissing, H. ; Yodh, G. ; AMANDA Collaboration (Collaboration author)

2004
APS College Park, Md.

Physical review letters 92(7), 071102 (2004) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.071102]

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Report No.: astro-ph/0309585

Abstract: We present the results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere using AMANDA-II data collected in the year 2000. Included are flux limits on several AGN blazars, microquasars, magnetars and other candidate neutrino sources. A search for excesses above a random background of cosmic-ray-induced atmospheric neutrinos and misreconstructed downgoing cosmic-ray muons reveals no statistically significant neutrino point sources. We show that AMANDA-II has achieved the sensitivity required to probe known TeV gamma-ray sources such as the blazar Markarian 501 in its 1997 flaring state at a level where neutrino and gamma-ray fluxes are equal.

Keyword(s): neutrino: cosmic radiation ; cosmic radiation: particle source ; cosmic radiation: flux ; upper limit ; AGN: blazar ; quasar ; matter: magnetic ; Cherenkov counter: water ; photomultiplier ; data management ; muon: cosmic radiation ; numerical methods ; AMANDA ; experimental results