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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 82: Neutrinoastronomie 3

T 82.4: Talk

Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 17:35–17:50, H 1

Search for neutrino point sources with an all-sky autocorrelation analysis in IceCube — •Andrea Turcati, Stefan Coenders, and Anna Bernhard for the IceCube collaboration — TUM, Munich, Germany

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometre scale neutrino telescope located in the Antarctic ice. Its full-sky field of view gives unique opportunities to study the neutrino emission from the Galactic and extragalactic sky. Recently, IceCube found the first signal of astrophysical neutrinos with energies up to the PeV scale, but the origin of these particles still remains unresolved. Given the observed flux, the absence of observations of bright point-sources is explainable with the presence of numerous weak sources. This scenario can be tested using autocorrelation methods. We present here the results of a two-point angular correlation analysis performed on seven years of IceCube data, taken between 2008 and 2015. The test is applied on the northern and southern skies separately, using the neutrino energy information to improve the effectiveness of the method. A dedicated additional analysis is also performed on the Cygnus Region: an active and massive star-forming complex situated in our galaxy.