SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOS FROM THE GALACTIC PLANE AND OTHER ASTROPHYSICAL EXTENDED SOURCES WITH ICECUBE The IceCube Collaboration Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, naoko@icecube.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison Motivation Shown to the right is a sky map of gamma-rays observed by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
Diffuse Neutrino Search from the Galactic Plane All-sky extended source search The detector, data, and event selection The IceCube neutrino observatory instruments a cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole using 86 strings of optical sensors.
In order to look for extended sources (ES) of neutrinos, an all-sky likelihood search similar to an all-sky point ...
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