SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR
© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. IceTop is an air-shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the source dir...
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ftcdlib:qt8st4x6b6 2023-05-15T13:44:07+02:00 SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Tjus, JB Becker, KH Benzvi, S Berghaus, P Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, HP Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M André, JPAMD Clercq, CD Rosendo, EDP Dembinski, H Ridder, SD Desiati, P Vries, KDD Wasseige, GD With, MD Deyoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC Lorenzo, VD Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, CC Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M 2016-10-20 application/pdf http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8st4x6b6 english eng eScholarship, University of California qt8st4x6b6 http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8st4x6b6 public Aartsen, MG; Abraham, K; Ackermann, M; Adams, J; Aguilar, JA; Ahlers, M; et al.(2016). SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR. Astrophysical Journal, 830(2). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/129. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8st4x6b6 article 2016 ftcdlib https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/129 2018-08-31T22:53:38Z © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. IceTop is an air-shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the source direction. Neutrons are undeflected by the Galactic magnetic field and can typically travel 10 (E/PeV) pc before decay. Two searches are performed using 4 yr of the IceTop data set to look for a statistically significant excess of events with energies above 10 PeV (1016eV) arriving within a small solid angle. The all-sky search method covers from -90° to approximately -50° in declination. No significant excess is found. A targeted search is also performed, looking for significant correlation with candidate sources in different target sets. This search uses a higher-energy cut (100 PeV) since most target objects lie beyond 1 kpc. The target sets include pulsars with confirmed TeV energy photon fluxes and high-mass X-ray binaries. No significant correlation is found for any target set. Flux upper limits are determined for both searches, which can constrain Galactic neutron sources and production scenarios. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet South pole South pole University of California: eScholarship Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic The Astrophysical Journal 830 2 129 |
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© 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. IceTop is an air-shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the source direction. Neutrons are undeflected by the Galactic magnetic field and can typically travel 10 (E/PeV) pc before decay. Two searches are performed using 4 yr of the IceTop data set to look for a statistically significant excess of events with energies above 10 PeV (1016eV) arriving within a small solid angle. The all-sky search method covers from -90° to approximately -50° in declination. No significant excess is found. A targeted search is also performed, looking for significant correlation with candidate sources in different target sets. This search uses a higher-energy cut (100 PeV) since most target objects lie beyond 1 kpc. The target sets include pulsars with confirmed TeV energy photon fluxes and high-mass X-ray binaries. No significant correlation is found for any target set. Flux upper limits are determined for both searches, which can constrain Galactic neutron sources and production scenarios. |
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Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Tjus, JB Becker, KH Benzvi, S Berghaus, P Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, HP Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M André, JPAMD Clercq, CD Rosendo, EDP Dembinski, H Ridder, SD Desiati, P Vries, KDD Wasseige, GD With, MD Deyoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC Lorenzo, VD Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, CC Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M |
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Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Tjus, JB Becker, KH Benzvi, S Berghaus, P Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, HP Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M André, JPAMD Clercq, CD Rosendo, EDP Dembinski, H Ridder, SD Desiati, P Vries, KDD Wasseige, GD With, MD Deyoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC Lorenzo, VD Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, CC Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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Aartsen, MG Abraham, K Ackermann, M Adams, J Aguilar, JA Ahlers, M Ahrens, M Altmann, D Andeen, K Anderson, T Ansseau, I Anton, G Archinger, M Argüelles, C Auffenberg, J Axani, S Bai, X Barwick, SW Baum, V Bay, R Beatty, JJ Tjus, JB Becker, KH Benzvi, S Berghaus, P Berley, D Bernardini, E Bernhard, A Besson, DZ Binder, G Bindig, D Bissok, M Blaufuss, E Blot, S Bohm, C Börner, M Bos, F Bose, D Böser, S Botner, O Braun, J Brayeur, L Bretz, HP Burgman, A Carver, T Casier, M Cheung, E Chirkin, D Christov, A Clark, K Classen, L Coenders, S Collin, GH Conrad, JM Cowen, DF Cross, R Day, M André, JPAMD Clercq, CD Rosendo, EDP Dembinski, H Ridder, SD Desiati, P Vries, KDD Wasseige, GD With, MD Deyoung, T Díaz-Vélez, JC Lorenzo, VD Dujmovic, H Dumm, JP Dunkman, M Eberhardt, B Ehrhardt, T Eichmann, B Eller, P Euler, S Evenson, PA Fahey, S Fazely, AR Feintzeig, J Felde, J Filimonov, K Finley, C Flis, S Fösig, CC Franckowiak, A Friedman, E Fuchs, T Gaisser, TK Gallagher, J Gerhardt, L Ghorbani, K Giang, W Gladstone, L Glagla, M |
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SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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SEARCH for SOURCES of HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRONS with FOUR YEARS of DATA from the ICETOP DETECTOR |
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search for sources of high-energy neutrons with four years of data from the icetop detector |
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