Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II -: art. no. 071102

被引：67

作者：

Ahrens, J

Bai, X

Barwick, SW

Becka, T

Becker, JK

Bernardini, E

Bertrand, D

Binon, F

Biron, A

Boersma, DJ

Böser, S

Botner, O

Bouchta, A

Bouhali, O

Burgess, T

Carius, S

Castermans, T

Chen, A

Chirkin, D

Collin, B

Conrad, J

Cooley, J

Cowen, DF

Davour, A

De Clercq, C

DeYoung, T

Desiati, P

Dewulf, JP

Ekström, P

Feser, T

Gaisser, TK

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, GC

Hubert, D

Hughey, B

Hulth, PO

机构：

[1] Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[2] Univ Delaware, Bartol Res Inst, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[3] BU Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys 8, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany

[4] Free Univ Brussels, Sci Fac CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[5] DESY Zeuthen, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[6] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2BW, England

[7] Kalmar Univ, Dept Technol, S-39182 Kalmar, Sweden

[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[9] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[10] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[11] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA

[12] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[13] Univ Mons Hainaut, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

[14] Univ Simon Bolivar, Dept Fis, Caracas 1080, Venezuela

[15] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[16] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, River Falls, WI 54022 USA

[17] Uppsala Univ, Div High Energy Phys, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden

[18] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[19] Free Univ Brussels, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2004年 / 92卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.071102

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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 active-galactic-nuclei 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.

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