IceCube results from point-like source searches using 6 years of through-going muon data

• Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Main Author: Coenders Stefan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2016
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604003; https://doaj.org/article/9c961d801bfc4c3492f0a65b85e4f855

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic South Pole was designed to study and discover high energy neutrinos coming from both galactic and extra-galactic astrophysical sources. Track-like events induced by charged-current muon-neutrino interactions close to the IceCube detector give an angular resolution better than 1∘ above TeV energies. We present here the results of searches for point-like astrophysical neutrino sources on the full sky using 6 years of detector livetime, of which three years use the complete IceCube detector. Within 2000 days of detector livetime, IceCube is sensitive to a steady flux substantially below E2∂ϕ/∂E = 10−12 TeV cm−2 s−1 in the northern sky for neutrino energies above 10 TeV.