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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
A Search for Very High-Energy Gamma Rays from the Missing Link Binary Pulsar J1023+0038 with VERITAS
E. Aliu, S. Archambault, A. Archer +82
The binary millisecond radio pulsar PSR J1023+0038 exhibits many characteristics similar to the gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259--63/LS 2883, making it an ideal candidate for the…
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…
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…
Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma Rays from 1ES 1440+122
VERITAS Collaboration, S. Archambault, A. Archer +87
The BL Lacertae object 1ES 1440+122 was observed in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV by the VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The observations, taken…
Very High Energy outburst of Markarian 501 in May 2009
E. Aliu, S. Archambault, A. Archer +108
The very high energy (VHE; E 100 GeV) blazar Markarian 501 was observed between April 17 and May 5 (MJD 54938--54956), 2009, as part of an extensive multi-wavelength campaign f…
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…
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…
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…
PINGU: A Vision for Neutrino and Particle Physics at the South Pole
Gen2 Collaboration
The Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade (PINGU) is a proposed low-energy in-fill extension to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. With detection technology modeled closely on t…
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…
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…
VERITAS and Multiwavelength Observations of the BL Lacertae Object 1ES 1741+196
VERITAS Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault +85
We present results from multiwavelength observations of the BL Lacertae object 1ES 1741+196, including results in the very-high-energy -ray regime using the Very Energetic Radia…
Upper limits from five years of blazar observations with the VERITAS Cherenkov telescopes
S. Archambault, A. Archer, W. Benbow +78
Between the beginning of its full-scale scientific operations in 2007 and 2012, the VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array observed more than 130 blazars; of these, 26 were detected as…
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…
TeV Gamma-ray Observations of The Galactic Center Ridge By VERITAS
A. Archer, W. Benbow, R. Bird +73
The Galactic Center Ridge has been observed extensively in the past by both GeV and TeV gamma-ray instruments revealing a wealth of structure, including a diffuse component as well…
A Search for Brief Optical Flashes Associated with the SETI Target KIC 8462852
A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault, A. Archer +78
The F-type star KIC 8462852 has recently been identified as an exceptional target for SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations. We describe an analysis methodol…
Exceptionally bright TeV flares from the binary LS I +61 303
VERITAS Collaboration, S. Archambault, A. Archer +86
The TeV binary system LS I +61 303 is known for its regular, non-thermal emission pattern which traces the orbital period of the compact object in its 26.5 day orbit around…
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…