Search for point sources of high energy neutrinos with final data from AMANDA-II

被引：53

作者：

Abbasi, R. ^{[1
]}

Ackermann, M. ^{[38
]}

Adams, J.

Ahlers, M. ^{[30
]}

Ahrens, J. ^{[26
]}

Andeen, K. ^{[1
]}

Auffenberg, J. ^{[37
]}

Bai, X. ^{[28
,29
]}

Baker, M. ^{[1
]}

Baret, B. ^{[13
]}

Barwick, S. W. ^{[22
]}

Bay, R. ^{[9
]}

Alba, J. L. Bazo ^{[38
]}

Beattie, K. ^{[10
]}

Becka, T. ^{[26
]}

Becker, J. K. ^{[19
]}

Becker, K. -H. ^{[37
]}

Berdermann, J. ^{[38
]}

Berghaus, P. ^{[1
]}

Berley, D. ^{[16
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[38
]}

Bertrand, D. ^{[12
]}

Besson, D. Z. ^{[24
]}

Blaufuss, E. ^{[16
]}

Boersma, D. J. ^{[1
]}

Bohm, C. ^{[32
]}

Bolmont, J. ^{[38
]}

Boeser, S. ^{[38
]}

Botner, O. ^{[35
]}

Braun, J. ^{[1
]}

Breder, D. ^{[37
]}

Burgess, T. ^{[32
]}

Castermans, T. ^{[27
]}

Chirkin, D. ^{[1
]}

Christy, B. ^{[16
]}

Clem, J. ^{[28
,29
]}

Cowen, D. F. ^{[33
,34
]}

D'Agostino, M. V. ^{[9
]}

Danninger, M. ^{[15
]}

Davour, A. ^{[35
]}

Day, C. T. ^{[10
]}

Depaepe, O. ^{[13
]}

De Clercq, C. ^{[13
]}

Demiroers, L. ^{[23
]}

Descamps, F. ^{[20
]}

Desiati, P. ^{[1
]}

de Vries-Uiterweerd, G. ^{[20
]}

DeYoung, T. ^{[34
]}

Diaz-Velez, J. C. ^{[1
]}

Dreyer, J. ^{[19
]}

机构：

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

[2] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-52056 Aachen, Germany

[3] Univ Alabama, Dept Phys & Astron, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA

[4] Univ Alaska Anchorage, Dept Phys & Astron, Anchorage, AK 99508 USA

[5] Clark Atlanta Univ, CTSPS, Atlanta, GA 30314 USA

[6] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[7] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[8] Southern Univ, Dept Phys, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA

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

[10] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[11] Humboldt Univ, Inst Phys, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

[12] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Fac Sci, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[13] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

[14] Chiba Univ, Dept Phys, Chiba 2638522, Japan

[15] Univ Canterbury, Dept Phys & Astron, Christchurch 1, New Zealand

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

[17] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[18] Ohio State Univ, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA

[19] Univ Dortmund, Dept Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

[20] Univ Ghent, Dept Subatom & Radiat Phys, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[21] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, D-69177 Heidelberg, Germany

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

[23] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, High Energy Phys Lab, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

[24] Univ Kansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA

[25] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53706 USA

[26] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

[27] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

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

[29] Univ Delaware, Dept Phys & Astron, Newark, DE 19716 USA

[30] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England

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

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

[33] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

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

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

[36] Univ Utrecht, Dept Phys & Astron, SRON, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands

[37] Univ Wuppertal, Dept Phys, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany

[38] DESY, D-15735 Zeuthen, Germany

[39] Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

[40] Kalmar Univ, Sch Pure & Appl Nat Sci, S-39182 Kalmar, Sweden

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 06期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会;

关键词：

COSMIC-RAYS; SELECTION; LIMITS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.062001

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos using 3.8 yr of data recorded by AMANDA-II during 2000-2006. After reconstructing muon tracks and applying selection criteria designed to optimally retain neutrino-induced events originating in the northern sky, we arrive at a sample of 6595 candidate events, predominantly from atmospheric neutrinos with primary energy 100 GeV to 8 TeV. Our search of this sample reveals no indications of a neutrino point source. We place the most stringent limits to date on E-2 neutrino fluxes from points in the northern sky, with an average upper limit of E-2 Phi(nu mu)+nu(tau)<= 5.2x10(-11) TeV cm(-2) s(-1) on the sum of nu(mu) and nu(tau) fluxes, assumed equal, over the energy range from 1.9 TeV to 2.5 PeV.

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