A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope

Adrian-Martinez S, Albert A, Al Samarai I, Andre M, Anton G, Anvar S, Ardid M, Astraatmadja T, Aubert JJ, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bigongiari C, Bogazzi C, Bouhou B, Bouwhuis MC, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carloganu C, Carr J, Cecchini S, Charif Z, Charvis P, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Classen F, Coniglione R, Core L, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Curtil C, De Bonis G, Dekeyser I, Deschamps A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dorosti Q, Drouhin D, Dumas A, Eberl T, Emanuele U, Enzenhöfer A, Ernenwein JP, Escoffier S, Fehn K, Fermani P, Flaminio V, Folger F, Fritsch U, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giacomelli G, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Gomez-Gonzalez JP, Graf K, Guillard G, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herold B, Hößl J, Hugon CM, James C, De Jong M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Kappes A, Katz U, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lambard E, Lambard G, Larosa G, Lattuada D, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Lo Presti D, Loehner H, Loucatos S, Louis F, Mangano S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Martinez-Mora JA, Martini S, Michael T, Montaruli T, Morganti M, Müller C, Neff M, Nezri E, Palioselitis D, Pavalas GE, Perrina C, Popa V, Pradier T, Racca C, Riccobene GM, Richter R, Riviere C, Robert A, Roensch K, Rostovtsev A, Samtleben DFE, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schmid J, Schnabel J, Schulte S, Schuessler F, Seitz T, Shanidze R, Sieger C, Simeone F, Spies A, Spurio M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Sanchez-Losa A, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Tayalati Y, Trovato A, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Vecchi M, Vernin P, Visser E, Wagner S, Wilms J, De Wolf E, Yatkin K, Yepes H, Zornoza JD, Zuniga J (2014)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Journal

Publisher: SPRINGER

Book Volume: 74

Article Number: ARTN 2701

Journal Issue: 2

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2701-6

Abstract

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays with similar fluxes. The ANTARES detector, a neutrino telescope located in the Mediterranean Sea, has a good visibility to the Fermi bubble regions. Using data collected from 2008 to 2011 no statistically significant excess of events is observed and therefore upper limits on the neutrino flux in TeV range from the Fermi bubbles are derived for various assumed energy cutoffs of the source.

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University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) University of Paris 11 - Paris-Sud / Université Paris XI Paris-Sud France (FR) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) Universiteit Utrecht (UU) / Utrecht University Netherlands (NL) Lomonosov Moscow State University / Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова Russian Federation (RU) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Spain (ES) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) Leiden University Netherlands (NL) University of Amsterdam Netherlands (NL) Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) /Институт теоретической и экспериментальной физики Russian Federation (RU)

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APA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., Albert, A., Al Samarai, I., Andre, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S.,... Zuniga, J. (2014). A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope. European Physical Journal C, 74(2). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2701-6

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "A search for neutrino emission from the Fermi bubbles with the ANTARES telescope." European Physical Journal C 74.2 (2014).

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