Speaker
Damien DORNIC
(CPPM)
Description
ANTARES is currently the largest neutrino telescope operating in the Northern Hemisphere,
aiming at the detection of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. By design,
neutrino telescopes constantly monitor at least one complete hemisphere of the sky
and are thus well set to detect neutrinos produced in transient astrophysical sources. The
flux of high-energy neutrinos from transient sources is expected to be lower than the one expected from steady
sources, but the background originating from Earth's atmosphere can be drastically reduced by
requiring a directional and temporal coincidence of the astrophysical
phenomenon detected by a satellite. The time-dependent point-source search has been applied to a list
of 33 X-ray binary systems while observed in high flaring activities in the 2008-2012 satellite data,
RXTE/ASM, MAXI and Swift/BAT. The results of this search are presented together with the comparison
between the neutrino flux upper-limits with the measured gamma-ray spectral energy distribution and
the prediction from astrophysical models.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 188 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | ANTARES |
Primary author
Damien DORNIC
(CPPM)
Co-author
Agustín Sánchez Losa
(IFIC (Spain))
