On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

Achterberg, A.; Ackermann, M.; Adams, J.; Ahrens, J.; Atlee, D. W.; Bahcall, John N.; Bai, X.; Baret, B.; Bartelt, M.; Barwick, S. W.; Bay, R.; Beattie, K.; Becka, T.; Becker, J.; Becker, K.-H.; Berghaus, P.; Berley, D.; Bernardini, E.; Bertrand, Daniel; Besson, D.; Blaufuss, E.; Boersma, D. J.; Böhm, C.; Böser, S.; Botner, O.; Bouchta, A.; Braun, J.; Burgess, C. P.; Burgess, T.; Castermans, T.; Chirkin, D.; Clem, J.; Collin, Bertrand; Conrad, J.; Cooley, J.; Cowen, D. F.; D’Agostino, M. V.; Davour, Anna; Day, C. T.; Clercq, C. De; Desiati, P.; DeYoung, T.; Dreyer, J.; Duvoort, M. R.; Edwards, W. R.; Ehrlich, R.; Ellsworth, R. W.; Evenson, P. A.; Fazely, A. R.; Feser, T.; Filimonov, K.; Gaisser, T. K.; Gallagher, John S.; Ganugapati, R.; Geenen, H.; Gerhardt, L.; Goldschmidt, A.; Goodman, J. A.; Greene, M. G.; Grullon, S.; Groß, A.; Gunasingha, R. M.; Hallgren, A.; Halzen, F.; Han, K.; Hanson, K.; Hardtke, D.; Hardtke, R.; Harenberg, T.; Hart, J. E.; Hauschildt, T.; Hays, D.; Heise, J.; Helbing, K.; Hellwig, M.; Herquet, P.; Hill, G. C.; Hodges, J.; Hoffman, K. D.; Hoshina, K.; Hubert, D.; Hughey, B.; Hulth, P. O.; Hultqvist, K.; Hundertmark, S.; Ishihara, A.; Jacobsen, J.; Japaridze, G. S.; Jones, Aaron; Joseph, J.; Kampert, K.‐H.; Karle, A.; Kawai, H.; Kelley, J. L.; Kestel, M.; Kitamura, N.; Klein, S. R.; Klepser, S.; Kohnen, G.; Kolanoski, H.; Köpke, L.; Krasberg, M.; Kuêhn, K.; Landsman, H.; Lang, R. F.; Leich, H.; Leuthold, M.; Liubarsky, I.; Lundberg, J.; Madsen, J.; Mase, K.; Matis, H. S.; McCauley, T.; McParland, C.; Meli, A.; Messarius, T.; Mészáros, P.; Minor, R.H.; Miočinović, P.; Miyamoto, H.; Mokhtarani, A.; Montaruli, T.; Morey, A.; Morse, R.; Movit, S. M.; Münich, K.; Nahnhauer, R.; Nam, J. W.; Nießen, P.; Nygren, D. R.; Öğelman, H.; Olbrechts, Ph.; Olivas, A.; Patton, S.; Peña-Garay, Carlos; Heros, C. Pérez de los; Pieloth, D.; Pohl, A. C.; Porrata, R.; Pretz, J.; Price, P. B.; Przybylski, G. T.; Rawlins, K.; Razzaque, S.; Refflinghaus, F.; Resconi, E.; Rhode, W.; Ribordy, M.; Richter, S.; Rizzo, A.; Robbins, S.; Rott, C.; Rutledge, D.; Sander, H. G.; Schlenstedt, S.; Schneider, D.; Seckel, D.; Seo, S. h.; Seunarine, S.; Silvestri, A.; Smith, A. J.; Solarz, M.; Song, Cui-Ying; Sopher, J.; Spiczak, G. M.; Spiering, Christian; Stamatikos, M.; Stanev, T.; Steffen, P.; Steele, D.; Stezelberger, T.; Stokstad, R. G.; Stoufer, M. C.; Stoyanov, S.; Sulanke, K.-H.; Sullivan, G. W.; Sumner, T. J.; Taboada, I.; Tarasova, O.; Tepe, A.; Thollander, L.; Tilav, S.; Toale, P. A.; Turčan, D.; Eijndhoven, N. van; Vandenbroucke, J.; Voigt, B.; Wagner, Wolfgang; Walck, C.; Waldmann, H.; Walter, Michael; Wang, Y.-R.; Wendt, C.; Wiebusch, C. H.; Wikström, G.; Williams, D. R.; Wischnewski, R.; Wissing, H.; Woschnagg, K.; Xu, Xianbo; Yodh, G.; Yoshida, Shigeru; Zornoza, J.D.; Biermann, P. L.

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.06.012

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“…Recently, a source stacking analysis was performed on data collected in the year 2000 [34,60], defining samples of 10 classes of active galactic nuclei, according to phenomenological selection criteria. The event sample extracted in this work yields an increase in sensitivity by a factor 4 compared to [34,60].…”

Section: B Source Stacking Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Achterberg

Ackermann²,

Adams

et al. 2007

Phys. Rev. D

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Section: B Source Stacking Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Achterberg

Ackermann²,

Adams

et al. 2007

Phys. Rev. D

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“…The final data set has been searched for a signal due to the cumulative neutrino flux from generic classes of active galactic nuclei. Recently, a source stacking analysis was performed on data collected in the year 2000 [34,60], defining samples of 10 classes of active galactic nuclei, according to phenomenological selection criteria. The event sample extracted in this work yields an increase in sensitivity by a factor 4 compared to [34,60].…”

Section: B Source Stacking Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic uncertainties in the analysis of data from a neutrino telescope: The AMANDA case

Bernardini¹

2006

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:

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“…After 11 months of operation, the Fermi-LAT collaboration published their first AGN catalog (Abdo et al 2010b) containing 709 GeV-sources associated with AGNs, many of which are in the previously published Bright Source list catalog (Abdo et al 2009b). A previous stacking search for neutrinos from AGNs used AMANDA data (Achterberg et al 2006c).…”

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confidence: 99%

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos With the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of Icecube

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Abdou

Abu‐Zayyad

et al. 2011

ApJ

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This paper presents four searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of energy, direction, and time with sensitivity to neutrino flares lasting between 20 μs and a year duration from astrophysical sources. Searches that integrate over time are less sensitive to flares because they are affected by a larger background of atmospheric neutrinos and muons that can be reduced by the use of additional timing information. Flaring sources considered here, such as active galactic nuclei, soft gamma-ray repeaters, and gamma-ray bursts, are promising candidate neutrino emitters. Two searches are "untriggered" in the sense that they look for any possible flare in the entire sky and from a predefined catalog of sources from which photon flares have been recorded. The other two searches are triggered by multi-wavelength information on flares from blazars and from a soft gamma-ray repeater. One triggered search uses lightcurves from Fermi-LAT which provides continuous monitoring. A second triggered search uses information where the flux states have been measured only for short periods of time near the flares. The untriggered searches use data taken by 40 strings of IceCube between 2008 April 5 and 2009 May 20. The triggered searches also use data taken by the 22-string configuration of IceCube operating between 2007 May 31 and 2008 April 5. The results from all four searches are compatible with a fluctuation of the background.

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On the selection of AGN neutrino source candidates for a source stacking analysis with neutrino telescopes

Cited by 36 publications

References 42 publications

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Five years of searches for point sources of astrophysical neutrinos with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope

Systematic uncertainties in the analysis of data from a neutrino telescope: The AMANDA case

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos With the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of Icecube

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