Publications (30)
Searches for neutrinos from cosmic-ray interactions in the Sun using seven years of IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +358
Cosmic-ray interactions with the solar atmosphere are expected to produce particle showers which in turn produce neutrinos from weak decays of mesons. These solar atmospheric neutr…
Design and Performance of the first IceAct Demonstrator at the South Pole
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +393
In this paper we describe the first results of a compact imaging air-Cherenkov telescope, IceAct, operating in coincidence with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) at the ge…
Characteristics of the diffuse astrophysical electron and tau neutrino flux with six years of IceCube high energy cascade data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +358
We report on the first measurement of the astrophysical neutrino flux using particle showers (cascades) in IceCube data from 2010 -- 2015. Assuming standard oscillations, the astro…
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…
Development of an analysis to probe the neutrino mass ordering with atmospheric neutrinos using three years of IceCube DeepCore data
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +331
The Neutrino Mass Ordering (NMO) remains one of the outstanding questions in the field of neutrino physics. One strategy to measure the NMO is to observe matter effects in the osci…
Search for Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos Using Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +351
Low background searches for astrophysical neutrino sources anywhere in the sky can be performed using cascade events induced by neutrinos of all flavors interacting in IceCube with…
Constraints on Neutrino Emission from Nearby Galaxies Using the 2MASS Redshift Survey and IceCube
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +354
The distribution of galaxies within the local universe is characterized by anisotropic features. Observatories searching for the production sites of astrophysical neutrinos can tak…
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…
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…
Investigation of two Fermi-LAT gamma-ray blazars coincident with high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube
S. Garrappa, S. Buson, A. Franckowiak +338
After the identification of the gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 as the first compelling IceCube neutrino source candidate, we perform a systematic analysis of all high-energy neutrin…
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…
Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357
This paper presents the results from point-like neutrino source searches using ten years of IceCube data collected between Apr.~6, 2008 and Jul.~10, 2018. We evaluate the significa…
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 Tau Neutrino Appearance with IceCube DeepCore
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +327
We present a measurement of atmospheric tau neutrino appearance from oscillations with three years of data from the DeepCore sub-array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This ana…
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory -- Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +355
Contributions from the IceCube Collaboration presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 24 July - 1 August 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +354
We present two searches for IceCube neutrino events coincident with 28 fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB. The first improves upon a previous IceCube analysis -- search…
A search for IceCube events in the direction of ANITA neutrino candidates
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357
During the first three flights of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, the collaboration detected several neutrino candidates. Two of these candidate event…
Search for transient optical counterparts to high-energy IceCube neutrinos with Pan-STARRS1
E. Kankare, M. Huber, S. J. Smartt +345
In order to identify the sources of the observed diffuse high-energy neutrino flux, it is crucial to discover their electromagnetic counterparts. IceCube began releasing alerts for…
Combined sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering with JUNO, the IceCube Upgrade, and PINGU
Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +440
The ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates is one of the fundamental open questions in neutrino physics. While current-generation neutrino oscillation experiments are able to pr…
Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +354
The measurement of diffuse PeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane would provide information about the energy spectrum and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays, and the detec…
Velocity independent constraints on spin-dependent DM-nucleon interactions from IceCube and PICO
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +419
Adopting the Standard Halo Model (SHM) of an isotropic Maxwellian velocity distribution for dark matter (DM) particles in the Galaxy, the most stringent current constraints on thei…
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…
A Search for Neutrino Point-Source Populations in 7 Years of IceCube Data with Neutrino-count Statistics
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357
The presence of a population of point sources in a dataset modifies the underlying neutrino-count statistics from the Poisson distribution. This deviation can be exactly quantified…
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…
ANTARES and IceCube Combined Search for Neutrino Point-like and Extended Sources in the Southern Sky
ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +498
A search for point-like and extended sources of cosmic neutrinos using data collected by the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes is presented. The data set consists of all the…
Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method in IceCube
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +357
Efficient treatment of systematic uncertainties that depend on a large number of nuisance parameters is a persistent difficulty in particle physics experiments. Where low-level eff…
Neutrinos below 100 TeV from the southern sky employing refined veto techniques to IceCube data
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +332
Many Galactic sources of gamma rays, such as supernova remnants, are expected to produce neutrinos with a typical energy cutoff well below 100 TeV. For the IceCube Neutrino Observa…
Neutrino astronomy with the next generation IceCube Neutrino Observatory
M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +399
The past decade has welcomed the emergence of cosmic neutrinos as a new messenger to explore the most extreme environments of the universe. The discovery measurement of cosmic neut…
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…
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…