Search for high-energy neutrino sources from the direction of IceCube alert events

The IceCube Collaboration

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Abstract

We use IceCube's high-statistics, neutrino-induced, through-going muon samples to search for astrophysical neutrino sources. Specifically, we analyze the arrival directions of IceCube's highest energy neutrinos. These high-energy events allow for a good angular reconstruction of their origin. Additionally, they have a high probability to come from an astrophysical source. On average, 8 neutrino events that satisfy these selection criteria are detected per year. Using these neutrino events as a source catalog, we present a search for the production sites of cosmic neutrinos. In this contribution we explore a time-dependent analysis, and present preliminary 3σ discovery potential fluences of ≈ 2.7 · 10−2GeV/cm2. We construct the fluences using expectation maximization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number940
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume395
StatePublished - Mar 18 2022
Event37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021 - Virtual, Berlin, Germany
Duration: Jul 12 2021Jul 23 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General

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