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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 100: Neutrinoastronomie IV
T 100.3: Talk
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 17:15–17:30, Arithmeum
Status of combined point source search with neutrino telescopes IceCube and AMANDA — Sirin Odrowski1, Yolanda Sestayo2, Elisa Resconi3, and •Markus Voge4 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany — 3Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany — 4Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
In this talk, we summarize recent results obtained from the combined neutrino telescopes IceCube and AMANDA. The combined approach, including data taken from both detectors simultaneously, is compared to other analyses that are using IceCube only data. The main benefit of the combined detector is its improved performance at low energies, meaning energies below 1 TeV (close to the energy threshold of the detector).
The discussion is focused on the search for extra-terrestrial neutrinos from candidate sources in our Galaxy. Using appropriate cuts, the sensitivity can be optimized for soft spectra neutrino sources. With the resulting data sample, several studies are performed: an unbinned Galactic Plane Scan and a Cygnus region analysis: the Multi Point Source analysis. The current status of these analyses will be presented.