Transient point source analyses in the ANTARES neutrino telescope

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Sanchez Losa, Agustin [1 ]
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[1] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia 46071, Spain
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ANTARES; Neutrino astronomy; Transient analysis; Micro-quasars; GRBs; AGNs; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; SEPTEMBER; CATALOG;
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10.1016/j.nima.2013.11.096
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TH7 [仪器、仪表];
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0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;
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The ANTARES telescope, with a duty cycle close to unity and a full hemisphere of the sky at all the times visible, is well suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources. Assuming a known neutrino production period, the background and the sensitivity can be drastically improved by selecting a narrow time window around it. GRBs, mu-quasars and AGNs are particularly attractive potential neutrino point sources since neutrinos and gamma-rays may be produced in hadronic interactions with the surrounding medium as they are the most likely sources of the observed ultra high energy cosmic rays. A strong correlation between the gamma-ray and the neutrino fluxes is expected in this scenario. ANTARES data has been analyzed in various transient source analyses with the goal of detecting cosmic neutrinos from GRBs, mu-quasars and AGNs. The sensitivity of a standard time-integrated point source search can be improved by a factor 2-3 by looking for neutrinos only during the most probable emission time. This information can be provided by the different satellite telescope types on the X-rays and gamma-rays wavelengths. The results of these different analyses will be presented. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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