Capabilities of IceCube’s Gamma-Ray, Optical and X-Ray Follow-Up Programs

Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop, VLVnT-2015, La Sapienza, Italy, 14 Sep 2015 - 16 Sep 2015 The European physical journal / Web of Conferences 116, 10002 (2015). doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611610002 : The IceCube neutrino observatory is a 1 km$^3$ detector for Cherenkov light in the ice at...

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Main Author: Kintscher, Thomas
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Language:English
Published: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2016-00593
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Summary:Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop, VLVnT-2015, La Sapienza, Italy, 14 Sep 2015 - 16 Sep 2015 The European physical journal / Web of Conferences 116, 10002 (2015). doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611610002 : The IceCube neutrino observatory is a 1 km$^3$ detector for Cherenkov light in the ice at the South Pole. Although the presence of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux has been confirmed, its origin has yet to be resolved. Given the current constraints on continuous point source searches, transient and variable objects emerge as promising, detectable source candidates. IceCube boosts the sensitivity to these types of sources by alerting third-party observatories of neutrino events clustered in direction and time. This paper will showcase several neutrino-triggered multi-messenger programs in IceCube along with their results and prospects. : Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis