Point source searches with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

2009/08/06 by S. Toscano, Toscano, Simona
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Neutrino Physics Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0908.0864

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Abstract

With the installation of its last two lines in May 2008, ANTARES is currently the largest neutrino detector in the Northern Hemisphere. The detector comprises 12 detection lines, carrying 884 ten-inch photomultipliers, at a depth of about 2500 m in the Mediterranean Sea, about 40 km off shore Toulon in South France. Thanks to its exceptional angular resolution, better than 0.3 degree above 10 TeV, and its favorable location with the Galactic Center visible 63% of time, ANTARES is specially suited for the search of astrophysical point sources. Since 2007 ANTARES has been taking data in smaller configurations with 5 and 10 lines. With only 5 lines it already has been possible to set the most restrictive upper limits in the Southern sky. In this contribution we present the search of point sources with the 5-line data sample.

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