A Search for Neutrino Emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES Telescope

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-12
Main Authors: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S, Albert, A, I Al Samarai, André, M, Anton, G, Anvar, S, Astraatmadja, T, J-J Aubert, Baret, B, Basa, S, Biagi, S, Bigongiari, C, Bogazzi, C, Bouhou, B, Brunner, J, Capone, A, Cârloganu, C, Carr, J, Charif, Z, Charvis, Ph, Chiarusi, T, Circella, M, Core, L, Costantini, H, Creusot, A, Curtil, C, Dekeyser, I, Donzaud, C, Dornic, D, Dumas, A, Eberl, T, Escoffier, S, Fermani, P, Flaminio, V, Folger, F, Fritsch, U, Fusco, L A, Galatà, S, Gay, P, Geißelsöder, S, Geyer, K, Gleixner, A, Gómez-González, J P, Graf, K, Guillard, G, H van Haren, Hello, Y, Hernández-Rey, J J, Hößl, J, Hugon, C, de Jong, M, Kadler, M, Kalekin, O, Kappes, A, Kooijman, P, Kouchner, A, Lahmann, R, Lambard, E, Larosa, G, Lefèvre, D, Leonora, E, D Lo Presti, Loehner, H, Marcelin, M, Margiotta, A, Martínez-Mora, J A, Martini, S, Michael, T, Müller, C, Neff, M, Nezri, E, Palioselitis, D, Păvălaş, G E, Popa, V, Pradier, T, Racca, C, Richter, R, Roensch, K, Rostovtsev, A, Samtleben, D F E, Schmid, J, Schüssler, F, Seitz, T, Shanidze, R, Simeone, F, Spies, A, Spurio, M, Stolarczyk, Th, Sánchez-Losa, A, Tamburini, C, Tayalati, Y, Trovato, A, Vallage, B, Vallée, C, Vecchi, M, Vernin, P, de Wolf, E, Yatkin, K, Zornoza, J D
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Language:English
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Bubbles
Emission analysis
Fluxes
Gamma rays
Neutrinos
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Summary:Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadronic models attempting to explain the origin of the Fermi bubbles predict the emission of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays with similar fluxes. The ANTARES detector, a neutrino telescope located in the Mediterranean Sea, has a good visibility to the Fermi bubble regions. Using data collected from 2008 to 2011 no statistically significant excess of events is observed and therefore upper limits on the neutrino flux in TeV range from the Fermi bubbles are derived for various assumed energy cutoffs of the source.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1308.5260