IceCube results from point-like source searches using 6 years of through-going muon data

Stefan Coenders

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611604003

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EPJ Web of Conferences 116, 04003 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604003

IceCube results from point-like source searches using 6 years of through-going muon data

Stefan Coenders^a for the IceCube Collaboration^b

Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

^a e-mail: coenders@icecube.wisc.edu
^b http://icecube.wisc.edu

Published online: 11 April 2016

Abstract

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic South Pole was designed to study and discover high energy neutrinos coming from both galactic and extra-galactic astrophysical sources. Track-like events induced by charged-current muon-neutrino interactions close to the IceCube detector give an angular resolution better than 1^∘ above TeV energies. We present here the results of searches for point-like astrophysical neutrino sources on the full sky using 6 years of detector livetime, of which three years use the complete IceCube detector. Within 2000 days of detector livetime, IceCube is sensitive to a steady flux substantially below E²∂ϕ/∂E = 10⁻¹² TeV cm⁻² s⁻¹ in the northern sky for neutrino energies above 10 TeV.

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