Extended search for point sources of neutrinos below and above the horizon: Covering energies from TeV to EeV with IceCube

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in the proceedings of the 2nd Heidelberg workshop "High-Energy Gamma-rays and Neutrinos fro

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10.1142/S0218271809015485

Point source searches with neutrino telescopes like IceCube are normally restricted to one hemisphere, due to the selection of up-going events as a way of rejecting the atmospheric muon background. In this work we show that the down-going region above the horizon can be included in the search by suppressing the background through energy-sensitive selection procedures. This approach increases the reach to the EeV regime of the signal spectrum, which was previously not accessible due to the absorption of neutrinos with energies above a PeV inside the Earth. We present preliminary results of this analysis, which for the first time includes up-going as well as down-going muon events in a combined approach. We used data collected with IceCube in a configuration of 22 strings. No significant excess above the atmospheric background is observed. While other analyses provided results for the Northern hemisphere, this new approach extends the field of view to a large part of the Southern sky, which was previously not covered with IceCube.

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