Speaker
Matthias Huber
(TU Munich)
Description
Located at the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world largest neutrino
telescope, instrumenting one cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice at a depth between 1450m
to 2450m. In 2013 IceCube reported the first observations of a diffuse astrophysical high-energy neutrino flux.
Although the IceCube Collaboration has identified more than 100 high energy neutrino events, the origin of this neutrino flux is still not known. Blazars, a subclass of Active Galactic
Nuclei and one of the most powerful classes of objects in the universe, have long been considered
promising sources of high energy neutrinos. A blazar origin of this high-energy neutrino flux can be examined using stacking methods
testing the correlation between IceCube neutrinos and catalogs of hypothesized sources. Here the
IceCube results for 1301 blazars from the third catalog of hard Fermi-LAT sources (3FHL) will be
presented. The analysis is performed on 8 years of through-going muon data from the Northern Hemisphere,
recorded by IceCube between 2009 and 2016.
Primary author
Matthias Huber
(TU Munich)
