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- Ahrens, J., et al.
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Search for Extraterrestrial Point Sources of Neutrinos with AMANDA-II
- 2004
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In: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 92:7, s. 711021-711025
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere were presented using AMANDA-II data collected in the year 2000. The results included the flux limits on several active-galactic-nuclei blazars, microquasars, magnetars, and other candidate neutrino sources. A search for excesses above a random background of cosmic ray induced atmospheric neutrinos and misreconstructed downgoing cosmic-rays muons, which revealed no statistically significant neutrino point sources was also presented. It was shown that AMANDA-II had achieved the sensitivity required to probe known TeV γ-ray sources such as the blazar Markarian 501 in its 1997 flaring state at a level where neutrino and γ-ray fluxes were equal.
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