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astro-ph.HE2011

First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +264

We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year…

astro-ph.HE2010

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino osc…

astro-ph.HE2011

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

Between May 2009 and May 2010, the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole recorded 32 billion muons generated in air showers produced by cosmic rays with a median energy of 20…

astro-ph.CO2010

The first search for extremely-high energy cosmogenic neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +250

We report on the results of the search for extremely-high energy (EHE) neutrinos with energies above GeV obtained with the partially (30%) constructed IceCube in 2007.…

astro-ph.HE2011

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper presents 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 ene…

astro-ph.HE2011

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

We present the results for a search of high-energy muon neutrinos with the IceCube detector in coincidence with the Crab nebula flare reported on September 2010 by various experime…

astro-ph.HE2011

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive star…

astro-ph.IM2010

Calibration and Characterization of the IceCube Photomultiplier Tube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +256

Over 5,000 PMTs are being deployed at the South Pole to compose the IceCube neutrino observatory. Many are placed deep in the ice to detect Cherenkov light emitted by the products…

astro-ph.IM2011

Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

The detection of acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions is a promising method to measure the tiny flux of cosmogenic neutrinos expected on Earth. The energy…

astro-ph.HE2011

Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

SN 2008D, a core collapse supernova at a distance of 27 Mpc, was serendipitously discovered by the Swift satellite through an associated X-ray flash. Core collapse supernovae have…

astro-ph.HE2011

Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal…

astro-ph.HE2011

A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2011

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

IceCube has become the first neutrino telescope with a sensitivity below the TeV neutrino flux predicted from gamma-ray bursts if GRBs are responsible for the observed cosmic-ray f…

astro-ph.HE2012

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +257

In this paper we present the results of searches for periodic neutrino emission from a catalog of binary systems. Such modulation, observed in the photon flux, would be caused by t…

astro-ph.CO2011

Constraints on the Extremely-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 Data

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

We report on a search for extremely-high energy neutrinos with energies greater than GeV using the data taken with the IceCube detector at the South Pole. The data was colle…

astro-ph.HE2010

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events i…

hep-ex2011

Observation of an Anisotropy in the Galactic Cosmic Ray arrival direction at 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

In this paper we report the first observation in the Southern hemisphere of an energy dependence in the Galactic cosmic ray anisotropy up to a few hundred TeV. This measurement was…

astro-ph.HE2011

Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of live…

astro-ph.HE2011

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s.…

astro-ph.HE2013

An Absence of Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as a leading candidate for acceleration of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, which would be accompanied by emission of TeV neutrinos produce…