TY  - JOUR
AU  - ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, S. et al
AU  - Bigongiari, C.
AU  - Dornic, D.
AU  - Emanuele, U.
AU  - Gomez-Gonzalez, J. P.
AU  - Hernandez-Rey, J. J.
AU  - Lambard, G.
AU  - Mangano, S.
AU  - Ruiz-Rivas, J.
AU  - Salesa, F.
AU  - Sanchez-Losa, A.
AU  - Toscano, S.
AU  - Yepes, H.
AU  - Zornoza, J. D.
AU  - Zuñiga, J.
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Search for neutrino emission from gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope
T2  - Astropart Phys.
JO  - Astroparticle Physics
SP  - 204
EP  - 210
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
PB  - Elsevier Science Bv
KW  - ANTARES
KW  - Neutrino astronomy
KW  - Fermi LAT transient sources
KW  - Time-dependent search
KW  - Blazars
AB  - The ANTARES telescope is well-suited to detect neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. Radio-loud active galactic nuclei with jets pointing almost directly towards the observer, the so-called blazars, are particularly attractive potential neutrino point sources. The all-sky monitor LAT on board the Fermi satellite probes the variability of any given gamma-ray bright blazar in the sky on time scales of hours to months. Assuming hadronic models, a strong correlation between the gamma-ray and the neutrino fluxes is expected. Selecting a narrow time window on the assumed neutrino production period can significantly reduce the background. An unbinned method based on the minimization of a likelihood ratio was applied to a subsample of data collected in 2008 (61 days live time). By searching for neutrinos during the high state periods of the AGN light curve, the sensitivity to these sources was improved by about a factor of two with respect to a standard time-integrated point source search. First results on the search for neutrinos associated with ten bright and variable Fermi sources are presented.
SN  - 0927-6505
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1111.3473
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.06.001
DO  - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.06.001
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000309787000024
ID  - ANTARESCollaborationAdrian-Martinez_etal2012
ER  -