PT Journal
AU ANTARES Collaboration (Adrian-Martinez, Sea
   Aguilar, JA
   Bigongiari, C
   Dornic, D
   Emanuele, U
   Gomez-Gonzalez, JP
   Hernandez-Rey, JJ
   Mangano, S
   Ruiz-Rivas, J
   Salesa, F
   Sanchez-Losa, A
   Toscano, S
   Yepes, H
   Zornoza, JD
   Zuñiga, J
TI First Search For Point Sources Of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos With The Antares Neutrino Telescope
SO Astrophysical Journal Letters
JI Astrophys. J. Lett.
PY 2011
BP L14 - 6pp
VL 743
IS 1
DI 10.1088/2041-8205/743/1/L14
LA English
DE astroparticle physics; cosmic rays; neutrinos
AB Results are presented of a search for cosmic sources of high-energy neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The data were collected during 2007 and 2008 using detector configurations containing between 5 and 12 detection lines. The integrated live time of the analyzed data is 304 days. Muon tracks are reconstructed using a likelihood-based algorithm. Studies of the detector timing indicate a median angular resolution of 0.5 +/- 0.1 deg. The neutrino flux sensitivity is 7.5 x 10(-8)(E(v)/GeV)(-2) GeV(-1) s(-1) cm(-2) for the part of the sky that is always visible (delta < -48 deg), which is better than limits obtained by previous experiments. No cosmic neutrino sources have been observed.
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