SEARCHES FOR POINT-LIKE AND EXTENDED NEUTRINO SOURCES CLOSE TO THE GALACTIC CENTER USING THE ANTARES NEUTRINO TELESCOPE

Adrian-Martinez S, Albert A, Andre M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Baret B, Barrios-Marti J, Basa S, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bogazzi C, Bormuth R, Bou-Cabo M, Bouwhuis MC, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Capone A, Caramete L, Carloganu C, Carr J, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Core L, Costantini H, Coyle P, Creusot A, Curtil C, De Rosa G, Dekeyser I, Deschamps A, De Bonis G, Distefano C, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Dorosti Q, Drouhin D, Dumas A, Eberl T, Elsaesser D, Enzenhöfer A, Escoffier S, Fehn K, Felis I, Fermani P, Folger F, Fusco LA, Galata S, Gay P, Geißelsöder S, Geyer K, Giordano V, Gleixner A, Gomez-Gonzalez JP, Graf K, Guillard G, Van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernandez-Rey JJ, Herold B, Herrero A, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, James C, De Jong M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Kießling D, Kooijman P, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Lambard E, Lambard G, Lattuada D, Lefevre D, Leonora E, Loehner H, Loucatos S, Mangano S, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Martinez-Mora JA, Martini S, Mathieu A, Michael T, Migliozzi P, Müller C, Neff M, Nezri E, Palioselitis D, Pavalas GE, Perrina C, Piattelli P, Popa V, Pradier T, Racca C, Riccobene GM, Richter R, Roensch K, Rostovtsev A, Saldana M, Samtleben DFE, Sanchez-Losa A, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schmid J, Schnabel J, Schulte S, Schuessler F, Seitz T, Sieger C, Spies A, Spurio M, Steijger JJM, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tamburini C, Tayalati Y, Trovato A, Vallage B, Vallee C, Van Elewyck V, Visser E, Vivolo D, 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: IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Book Volume: 786

Article Number: ARTN L5

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/786/1/L5

Abstract

A search for cosmic neutrino sources using six years of data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope has been performed. Clusters of muon neutrinos over the expected atmospheric background have been looked for. No clear signal has been found. The most signal-like accumulation of events is located at equatorial coordinates R.A. = -46 degrees.8 and decl. = -64 degrees.9 and corresponds to a 2.2 sigma background fluctuation. In addition, upper limits on the flux normalization of an E-2 muon neutrino energy spectrum have been set for 50 pre-selected astrophysical objects. Finally, motivated by an accumulation of seven events relatively close to the Galactic Center in the recently reported neutrino sample of the IceCube telescope, a search for point sources in a broad region around this accumulation has been carried out. No indication of a neutrino signal has been found in the ANTARES data and upper limits on the flux normalization of an E-2 energy spectrum of neutrinos from point sources in that region have been set. The 90% confidence level upper limits on the muon neutrino flux normalization vary between 3.5 and 5.1 x 10(-8) GeV cm(-2) s(-1), depending on the exact location of the source.

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National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) National Institute for Subatomic Physics / Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef) Netherlands (NL) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) University of València / Universitat de València Spain (ES) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) L’université Blaise Pascal (L'UBP) / Blaise Pascal University France (FR) Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) France (FR) University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Netherlands (NL) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) University of Nice Sophia Antipolis / Université Nice Sophia Antipolis France (FR) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) France (FR) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France (FR) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain (ES) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) 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., Andre, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M.,... Zuniga, J. (2014). SEARCHES FOR POINT-LIKE AND EXTENDED NEUTRINO SOURCES CLOSE TO THE GALACTIC CENTER USING THE ANTARES NEUTRINO TELESCOPE. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 786(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/786/1/L5

MLA:

Adrian-Martinez, S., et al. "SEARCHES FOR POINT-LIKE AND EXTENDED NEUTRINO SOURCES CLOSE TO THE GALACTIC CENTER USING THE ANTARES NEUTRINO TELESCOPE." Astrophysical Journal Letters 786.1 (2014).

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