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astro-ph.HE2011★ 170 cited

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.HE2011★ 17 cited

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★ 138 cited

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.HE2011★ 110 cited

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★ 47 cited

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.CO2011★ 88 cited

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.IM2011★ 18 cited

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★ 11 cited

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★ 112 cited

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★ 50 cited

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.HE2011★ 120 cited

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.HE2010★ 172 cited

Time-Integrated Searches for Point-like Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String IceCube Detector

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi

We present the results of time-integrated searches for astrophysical neutrino sources in both the northern and southern skies. Data were collected using the partially-completed Ice…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 105 cited

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.HE2010★ 197 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 40 cited

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.HE2010★ 4 cited

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou, T. Abu-Zayyad +256

IceCube Collaboration Contributions to the 2009 International Cosmic Ray Conference

astro-ph.IM2010★ 292 cited

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.HE2009

Extending the search for neutrino point sources with IceCube above the horizon

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi

Point source searches with the IceCube neutrino telescope have been restricted to one hemisphere, due to the exclusive selection of upward going events as a way of rejecting the at…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 27 cited

Limits on a muon flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun from the IceCube 22-string detector

The IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi

A search for muon neutrinos from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the 22-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino detector using data c…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 52 cited

First Neutrino Point-Source Results From the 22-String IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi

We present new results of searches for neutrino point sources in the northern sky, using data recorded in 2007-08 with 22 strings of the IceCube detector (approximately one-fourth…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 166 cited

Limits on a muon flux from neutralino annihilations in the Sun with the IceCube 22-string detector

IceCube collaboration, R. Abbasi

A search for muon neutrinos from neutralino annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the IceCube 22-string neutrino detector using data collected in 104.3 days of live-time…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 91 cited

Determination of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux and Searches for New Physics with AMANDA-II

The IceCube Collaboration

The AMANDA-II detector, operating since 2000 in the deep ice at the geographic South Pole, has accumulated a large sample of atmospheric muon neutrinos in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV ene…