Search for astrophysical neutrino point sources at super-kamiokande

E. Thrane, K. Abe, Y. Hayato, T. Iida, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, K. Kobayashi, Y. Koshio, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Obayashi, H. Ogawa, H. Sekiya, M. Shiozawa, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takenaga, Y. TakeuchiK. Ueno, K. Ueshima, H. Watanabe, S. Yamada, M. R. Vagins, S. Hazama, I. Higuchi, C. Ishihara, T. Kajita, K. Kaneyuki, G. Mitsuka, H. Nishino, K. Okumura, N. Tanimoto, F. Dufour, E. Kearns, M. Litos, J. L. Raaf, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, M. Goldhaber, K. Bays, D. Casper, J. P. Cravens, W. R. Kropp, S. Mine, C. Regis, M. B. Smy, H. W. Sobel, K. S. Ganezer, J. Hill, W. E. Keig, J. S. Jang, I. S. Jeong, J. Y. Kim, I. T. Lim, M. Fechner, K. Scholberg, C. W. Walter, R. Wendell, S. Tasaka, J. G. Learned, S. Matsuno, Y. Watanabe, T. Hasegawa, T. Ishida, T. Ishii, T. Kobayashi, T. Nakadaira, K. Nakamura, K. Nishikawa, Y. Oyama, K. Sakashita, T. Sekiguchi, T. Tsukamoto, A. T. Suzuki, A. K. Ichikawa, A. Minamino, T. Nakaya, M. Yokoyama, S. Dazeley, R. Svoboda, A. Habig, Y. Fukuda, Y. Itow, T. Tanaka, C. K. Jung, G. Lopez, C. McGrew, C. Yanagisawa, N. Tamura, Y. Idehara, H. Ishino, A. Kibayashi, Makoto Sakuda, Y. Kuno, M. Yoshida, S. B. Kim, B. S. Yang, T. Ishizuka, H. Okazawa, Y. Choi, H. K. Seo, Y. Furuse, K. Nishijima, Y. Yokosawa, M. Koshiba, Y. Totsuka, S. Chen, G. Gong, Y. Heng, T. Xue, Z. Yang, H. Zhang, D. Kielczewska, P. Mijakowski, K. Connolly, M. Dziomba, R. J. Wilkes

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It has been hypothesized that large fluxes of neutrinos may be created in astrophysical "cosmic accelerators." The primary background for a search for astrophysical neutrinos comes from atmospheric neutrinos, which do not exhibit the pointlike directional clustering that characterizes a distant astrophysical signal. We perform a search for neutrino point sources using the upward-going muon data from three phases of operation (SK-I, SK-II, and SK-III) spanning 2623 days of live time taken from 1996 April 1 to 2007 August 11. The search looks for signals from suspected galactic and extragalactic sources, transient sources, and uncataloged sources. While we find interesting signatures from two objects - RX J1713.7-3946 (97.5% CL) and GRB 991004D (95.3% CL) - these signatures lack compelling statistical significance given trial factors. We set limits on the flux and fluence of neutrino point sources above energies of 1.6 GeV.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)503-512
ページ数10
ジャーナルAstrophysical Journal
704
1
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 天文学と天体物理学
  • 宇宙惑星科学

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