Introduction
A time integrated search for point sources
of cosmic neutrinos was performed using the data collected from January
2007 to December 2010 by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. Attached below
are the cumulative angular resolution distribution, the point spread
function, the effective area and the acceptance for an E-2
source spectrum. Although not used in this analysis, the point spread
function as a function of the angular error estimate is also included in
this webpage. Two types of searches were performed in this search: a
full sky search and a search over 50 pre-defined neutrino source
candidates. No statistically significant signal was found.
A better calibration of the detector was performed after the 2007-2010
analysis, leading to a data set with an increased number of events for
the same set of cuts (from 3058 events to 3092). A better modelling of
the PMT transit-time distribution is currently used in the simulations,
leading also to an estimated better angular resolution (the median
angular resolution is currently estimated at 0.38° instead of
0.43°). A re-evaluation of the data set for this particular period
showed that the most significant cluster was located in a compatible
location to the one found in this analysis (RA: -46.5°, DEC: -64.9°),
although with a higher significance (2.7σ post-trial significance for a
fitted number of signal events of 5.9).
More information on how the search was performed can be found in:





Data
The data for the 2007-2010 period can be found in the following ASCII table:
Data for the 2007-2010 point-source analysisThis file includes the declination, right ascension, detected number of hits and estimated angular resolution for each of the 3092 events of the same sample.
Please cite this data as:
Search for Cosmic Neutrino Point Sources with Four Year Data of the
ANTARES Telescope - ANTARES Collaboration (S. Adrián-Martínez et
al.), Astrophys.J. 760 (2012) 53 arXiv:1207.3105
In case this data is used in an analysis, please send an e-mail to the ANTARES spokeperson (antares.spokesperson@in2p3.fr).