2015/09/10 by Michael Schimp, Schimp, Michael, M. Leuermann +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Neutrino Physics Research #astro-ph.HE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.02980
8 pages, 4 figures, ICRC 2015 Proceedings; unnecessary comments in LaTeX source removed
openalex publication_date 2015/09/10 · arxiv created 2015/09/25 · arxiv updated 2015/09/28 · openalex created_date 2022/10/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
IceCube, a cubic-kilometer sized neutrino detector at the Geographic South Pole, has recently discovered a diffuse all-flavor flux of astrophysical neutrinos. However, the corresponding astrophysical sources have not yet been identified in current IceCube analyses. We present a method to interpret the results of a recently published angular correlation analysis in IceCube searching for spatial clustering of muon neutrino events in terms of astrophysical models (given by an arbitrary source count distribution). We exemplarily show the resulting limits on the parameters of a class of source count distributions motivated by Fermi-LAT observations of resolved blazars.