2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.11.010
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Detection potential of the KM3NeT detector for high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles

Abstract: A recent analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data provided evidence for a high-intensity emission of high-energy gamma rays with a E −2 spectrum from two large areas, spanning 50 • above and below the Galactic centre (the "Fermi bubbles"). A hadronic mechanism was proposed for this gamma-ray emission making the Fermi bubbles promising source candidates of high-energy neutrino emission. In this work Monte Carlo simulations regarding the detectability of high-energy neutrinos from the Fermi bubbles 4 with… Show more

Help me understand this report
View preprint versions

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1

Citation Types

1
18
0

Year Published

2014
2014
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
7
1

Relationship

1
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 30 publications
(19 citation statements)
references
References 24 publications
1
18
0
Order By: Relevance
“…The FB signal will be strongly substantiated by a northern hemisphere detector like the future Km3Net [33], which will be at a nearly optimal location to look for tracklike events from the bubbles [31]. More than 300 events per decade are expected for E 0 ¼ 10 PeV.…”
Section: Fig 2 (Color Online) (A)mentioning
confidence: 99%
See 2 more Smart Citations
“…The FB signal will be strongly substantiated by a northern hemisphere detector like the future Km3Net [33], which will be at a nearly optimal location to look for tracklike events from the bubbles [31]. More than 300 events per decade are expected for E 0 ¼ 10 PeV.…”
Section: Fig 2 (Color Online) (A)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the same parameters, a significance of 3σ would be obtained with about seven years of running time. The time needed for discovery might be shorter with the use of detailed statistical analyses of the spatial correlation with the bubbles, and/or if a compatible excess is observed in track events at a detector in the Northern hemisphere [31,33]. For the most conservative spectrum, E 0 ¼ 1 PeV, the background is Fig.…”
Section: Fig 2 (Color Online) (A)mentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…Limits were placed on possible fluxes of neutrinos for various assumptions on the energy cut-off at the source. As stated in [15], these limits are close to the theoretical expectations, meaning that the hadronic origin of the observed gamma-rays from the FBs could be probed with the full ANTARES data set, or after one year of data taking with KM3NeT [16], the next generation neutrino telescope to be built in the Mediterranean Sea.…”
Section: Searches For a Diffuse Flux Of Cosmic Neutrinosmentioning
confidence: 65%
“…Assuming a hadronic mechanism for the gamma ray production from the Fermi bubbles, a high energy neutrino flux is also expected. If the gamma production is completely due to hadronic processes, the results of Monte Carlo simulations [6] indicate that a discovery is possible in about one year of KM3NeT operation.…”
Section: The Physics Casementioning
confidence: 99%