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most citedThe major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part II: A performance study using observations of the Crab Nebula

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astro-ph.HE2020★ 46 cited

IceCube Search for Neutrinos Coincident with Compact Binary Mergers from LIGO-Virgo's First Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +374

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we search for high-energy neutrino emission coincident with compact binary mergers observed by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave (GW) de…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 42 cited

IceCube Search for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +361

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the main gamma-ray emitters in the Galactic plane. They are diffuse nebulae that emit nonthermal radiation. Pulsar winds, relativistic magnetized out…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 69 cited

Combined search for neutrinos from dark matter self-annihilation in the Galactic Centre with ANTARES and IceCube

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +495

We present the results of the first combined dark matter search targeting the Galactic Centre using the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. For dark matter particles with mass…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 46 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 276 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 38 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

A search for IceCube events in the direction of ANITA neutrino candidates

Alex Pizzuto, Anastasia Barbano, Teresa Montaruli +1

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) collaboration has reported a total of three neutrino candidates from the experiment's first three flights. One of these was the lo…

astro-ph.HE2019

Low Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum from 250 TeV to 10 PeV using IceTop

Ramesh Koirala, Thomas K. Gaisser

Using IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the all-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum has been determined above a few PeV. The measured energy spectr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 15 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

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.

astro-ph.HE2019★ 86 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 19 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 102 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 33 cited

First Multi-wavelength Campaign on the Gamma-ray-loud Active Galaxy IC 310

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +160

The extragalactic VHE gamma-ray sky is rich in blazars. These are jetted active galactic nuclei viewed at a small angle to the line-of-sight. Only a handful of objects viewed at a…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +159

We present the first detection of the nearby (z=0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (VHE: E100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of i…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 67 cited

Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +290

We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1 which inc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 34 cited

Observations of Sagittarius A* during the pericenter passage of the G2 object with MAGIC

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +153

Context. We present the results of a multi-year monitoring campaign of the Galactic Center (GC) with the MAGIC telescopes. These observations were primarily motivated by reports th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 39 cited

A search for spectral hysteresis and energy-dependent time lags from X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421

A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault, A. Archer +220

Blazars are variable emitters across all wavelengths over a wide range of timescales, from months down to minutes. It is therefore essential to observe blazars simultaneously at di…