Searching for TeV Gamma-ray Emission Associated with IceCube High-energy Neutrinos using VERITAS

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dc.contributor.authorSantander, Marcos
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-03T15:15:45Z
dc.date.available2019-07-03T15:15:45Z
dc.date.issued2018-08-18
dc.description.abstractA clue to finding the long-sought sources of cosmic rays is the recent observation of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube detector, since these possibly originate in hadronic interactions at cosmic-ray accelerators. While the neutrino sky map shows no significant indication of point sources so far, it is possible to utilize the sensitivity of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) arrays, such as VERITAS, to search for hadronic gamma-ray emission from the neutrino directions. Over the last 2 years, the positions of neutrino events detected by IceCube have been observed using the VERITAS array. Observations have been limited to muon neutrino events, since their typical angular reconstruction uncertainty is below 1°, smaller than the 3.5° diameter of the VERITAS field of view. The location of VERITAS further constrains the neutrino event positions that can be observed to those located in the northern sky, or at moderate southern declinations. The list of observed positions was selected from published results and a set of high-energy muon tracks provided by IceCube. We present the current status and some preliminary results from this program.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationSantander, M., et al. (2016): Searching for TeV Gamma-ray Emission Associated with IceCube High-energy Neutrinos using VERITAS. Proceedings of Science, 236 . DOI:https://doi.org/10.22323/1.236.0785
dc.identifier.doi10.22323/1.236.0785
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/5892
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.relation.ispartof34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)
dc.rights.licenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleSearching for TeV Gamma-ray Emission Associated with IceCube High-energy Neutrinos using VERITASen_US
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