Publications (76)
Search for Multi-messenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during its first Observing Run, ANTARES and IceCube
ANTARES, IceCube, LIGO +1589
Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic outflows, giving rise to non-th…
Search for Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions with IceCube DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +317
As atmospheric neutrinos propagate through the Earth, vacuum-like oscillations are modified by Standard-Model neutral- and charged-current interactions with electrons. Theories bey…
Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +299
Dark matter which is bound in the Galactic halo might self-annihilate and produce a flux of stable final state particles, e.g. high energy neutrinos. These neutrinos can be detecte…
An All-Sky Search for Three Flavors of Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314
We present the results and methodology of a search for neutrinos produced in the decay of charged pions created in interactions between protons and gamma-rays during the prompt emi…
Lowering IceCube's Energy Threshold for Point Source Searches in the Southern Sky
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +317
Observation of a point source of astrophysical neutrinos would be a "smoking gun" signature of a cosmic-ray accelerator. While IceCube has recently discovered a diffuse flux of ast…
Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with IceCube-DeepCore
M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +309
We present the results of a search for astrophysical sources of brief transient neutrino emission using IceCube and DeepCore data acquired between May 15th 2012 and April 30th 2013…
Detection of the Temporal Variation of the Sun's Cosmic Ray Shadow with the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +326
We report on the observation of a deficit in the cosmic ray flux from the directions of the Moon and Sun with five years of data taken by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Between…
Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Muons produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers account for the by far dominant part of the event yield in large-volume underground particle detectors. The IceCube detector, with…
First search for dark matter annihilations in the Earth with the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
We present the results of the first IceCube search for dark matter annihilation in the center of the Earth. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), candidates for dark matter…
Observation and Characterization of a Cosmic Muon Neutrino Flux from the Northern Hemisphere using six years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
The IceCube Collaboration has previously discovered a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux using neutrino events with interaction vertices contained within the instrumented volu…
Search for correlations between the arrival directions of IceCube neutrino events and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +863
This paper presents the results of different searches for correlations between very high-energy neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and the highest-energy cosmic rays measured…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part VI: IceCube-Gen2, the Next Generation Neutrino Observatory
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +356
Papers on research & development towards IceCube-Gen2, the next generation neutrino observatory at South Pole, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017,…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part II: Atmospheric and Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Searches of All Flavors
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on atmospheric and astrophysical diffuse neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Col…
Differential limit on the extremely-high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the presence of astrophysical background from nine years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +330
We report a quasi-differential upper limit on the extremely-high-energy (EHE) neutrino flux above GeV based on an analysis of nine years of IceCube data. The astro…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Cosmic Rays
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312
Papers on cosmic-ray measurements submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube Collaboration
Improved limits on dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector and implications for supersymmetry
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +315
We present an improved event-level likelihood formalism for including neutrino telescope data in global fits to new physics. We derive limits on spin-dependent dark matter-proton s…
Searches for Time Dependent Neutrino Sources with IceCube Data from 2008 to 2012
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +304
In this paper searches for flaring astrophysical neutrino sources and sources with periodic emission with the IceCube neutrino telescope are presented. In contrast to time integrat…
Anisotropy in Cosmic-Ray Arrival Directions in the Southern Hemisphere with Six Years of Data from the IceCube Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +314
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has accumulated a total of 318 billion cosmic-ray induced muon events between May 2009 and May 2015. This data set was used for a detailed analysis…
Constraints on Minute-Scale Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Sources
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +331
High-energy neutrino emission has been predicted for several short-lived astrophysical transients including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), core-collapse supernovae with choked jets and n…
Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6-56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314
We present a measurement of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters using three years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The DeepCore infill array in the center…
Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory
A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…
Extending the search for muon neutrinos coincident with gamma-ray bursts in IceCube data
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +305
We present an all-sky search for muon neutrinos produced during the prompt -ray emission of 1172 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The detection of…
IceCube-Gen2: A Vision for the Future of Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325
The recent observation by the IceCube neutrino observatory of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos represents the "first light" in the nascent field of neutrino astronomy. The observ…
Flavor Ratio of Astrophysical Neutrinos above 35 TeV in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
A diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos above has been observed at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Here we extend this analysis to probe the astrophysical f…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part II: Properties of the Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrino Flux
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312
Papers on the properties of the atmospheric and astrophysical neutrino flux submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array: Joint Contribution to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +884
We have conducted three searches for correlations between ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory, and high-energy neutrino c…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part IV: Searches for Beyond the Standard Model Physics
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312
Papers on searches for beyond the standard model physics, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube Collaboration
Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +537
We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescope…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part V: Neutrino Oscillations and Supernova Searches
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on neutrino oscillations and supernova searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube
S. Adrián-MartÃnez, A. Albert, M. André +1387
We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on Sept. 14th, 2015. We search…
Search for Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos at 5.7Ï significance from an all-flavor search. The direct detection of tau neutrin…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part V: Solar flares, Supernovae, Event reconstruction, Education & Outreach
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312
Papers on solar flares, supernovae, event reconstruction and education & outreach, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the…
Search for steady point-like sources in the astrophysical muon neutrino flux with 8 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325
The IceCube Collaboration has observed a high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux and recently found evidence for neutrino emission from the blazar TXS 0506+056. These results open…
Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Da…
Searches for small-scale anisotropies from neutrino point sources with three years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of to the -scale. The origin of those events, b…
Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +327
With the observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, interest has risen in models of PeV-mass decaying dark matter particles to explain…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part III: Cosmic Rays
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Self-Annihilations in the center of the Milky Way with 3 years of IceCube/DeepCore
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310
We present a search for a neutrino signal from dark matter self-annihilations in the Milky Way using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube). In 1005 days of data we found no si…
Search for Sources of High Energy Neutrons with Four Years of Data from the IceTop Detector
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +308
IceTop is an air shower array located on the Antarctic ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. IceTop can detect an astrophysical flux of neutrons from Galactic sources as an exces…
Search for annihilating dark matter in the Sun with 3 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
We present results from an analysis looking for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube neutrino telescope. Gravitationally trapped dark matter in the Sun's core can a…
Measurements using the inelasticity distribution of multi-TeV neutrino interactions in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +330
Inelasticity--the fraction of a neutrino's energy transferred to hadrons--is a quantity of interest in the study of astrophysical and atmospheric neutrino interactions at multi-TeV…
Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays Observed by IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +303
The core mission of the IceCube Neutrino observatory is to study the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. IceCube, with its surface component IceTop, observes multiple signatures…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: Instrumentation and Online Systems
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +350
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer-scale high-energy neutrino detector built into the ice at the South Pole. Construction of IceCube, the largest neutrino detect…
All-sky search for time-integrated neutrino emission from astrophysical sources with 7 years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306
Since the recent detection of an astrophysical flux of high energy neutrinos, the question of its origin has not yet fully been answered. Much of what is known about this flux come…
A combined maximum-likelihood analysis of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux measured with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310
Evidence for an extraterrestrial flux of high-energy neutrinos has now been found in multiple searches with the IceCube detector. The first solid evidence was provided by a search…
Development of a General Analysis and Unfolding Scheme and its Application to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301
We present the development and application of a generic analysis scheme for the measurement of neutrino spectra with the IceCube detector. This scheme is based on regularized unfol…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part I: Point Source Searches
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on point source searches submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube
The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration +1185
We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neu…
Joint constraints on Galactic diffuse neutrino emission from ANTARES and IceCube
A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +454
The existence of diffuse Galactic neutrino production is expected from cosmic ray interactions with Galactic gas and radiation fields. Thus, neutrinos are a unique messenger offeri…
A Search for Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Six Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +320
We present a search for coincidence between IceCube TeV neutrinos and fast radio bursts (FRBs). During the search period from 2010 May 31 to 2016 May 12, a total of 29 FRBs with 13…
All-Sky Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV and Mapping of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field
HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +400
We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemis…
Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300
We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible w…
Measurement of the multi-TeV neutrino cross section with IceCube using Earth absorption
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +314
Neutrinos interact only very weakly, so they are extremely penetrating. However, the theoretical neutrino-nucleon interaction cross section rises with energy such that, at energies…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part IV: Searches for Dark Matter and Exotic Particles
The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312
Papers on searches for dark matter and exotic particles submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.
Searches for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306
Various extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These p…
Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrinos above 1 TeV Interacting in IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for ~TeV neu…
Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +501
On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with comi…
All-flavour Search for Neutrinos from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Milky Way with IceCube/DeepCore
IceCube collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +319
We present the first IceCube search for a signal of dark matter annihilations in the Milky Way using all-flavour neutrino-induced particle cascades. The analysis focuses on the Dee…
First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes
ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-MartÃnez, A. Albert +426
We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combi…
Detection of a Type IIn Supernova in Optical Follow-up Observations of IceCube Neutrino Events
M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +331
The IceCube neutrino observatory pursues a follow-up program selecting interesting neutrino events in real-time and issuing alerts for electromagnetic follow-up observations. In Ma…
Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310
The IceCube neutrino observatory has established the existence of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos inconsistent with the expectation from atmospheric backgrounds at a…
The IceCube Realtime Alert System
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
Following the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013, their origin is still unknown. Aiming for the identification of an electromagnetic counterpart of a rapidly…
Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision Tests of Lorentz Symmetry with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +319
Lorentz symmetry is a fundamental space-time symmetry underlying the Standard Model of particle physics and gravity. However, unified theories, such as string theory, allow for vio…
Constraints on Galactic Neutrino Emission with Seven Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +309
The origins of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos remain a mystery despite extensive searches for their sources. We present constraints from seven years of IceCube Neutrino Observ…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part I: Searches for the Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +312
Papers on the searches for the sources of astrophysical neutrinos, submitted to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the IceCube Collabor…
Searches for Extended and Point-like Neutrino Sources with Four Years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
We present results on searches for point-like sources of neutrinos using four years of IceCube data, including the first year of data from the completed 86-string detector. The tot…
Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube
A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410
The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…
Search for sterile neutrino mixing using three years of IceCube DeepCore data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +305
We present a search for a light sterile neutrino using three years of atmospheric neutrino data from the DeepCore detector in the energy range of approximately GeV. DeepCor…
Measurement of the energy spectrum with IceCube-79
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +306
IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube…
Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301
We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a regio…
Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly South…
Constraints on ultra-high-energy cosmic ray sources from a search for neutrinos above 10 PeV with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309
We report constraints on the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) above GeV, based on an analysis of seven years of IceCube data. This analysis efficiently sele…
Measurement of the Atmospheric Spectrum with IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +308
We present a measurement of the atmospheric spectrum at energies between 0.1 TeV and 100 TeV using data from the first year of the complete IceCube detector. Atmospheric $ν…
IceCube-Gen2 - The Next Generation Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole: Contributions to ICRC 2015
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +337
Papers submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration.
Computational Techniques for the Analysis of Small Signals in High-Statistics Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +368
The current and upcoming generation of Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescopes---collecting unprecedented quantities of neutrino events---can be used to explore subtle effects in osc…
The contribution of Fermi-2LAC blazars to the diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino flux
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +319
The recent discovery of a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux extending up to PeV energies raises the question of which astrophysical sources generate this signal. One class of extragalac…