D. Dornic, for the ANTARES Collaboration
The ANTARES observatory is currently the largest neutrino telescope in the
Northern Hemisphere. It is well suited to detect high energy neutrinos produced
in astrophysical sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all
the times with a high duty cycle and an angular resolution about 0.4 degrees.
Due to its location in the South of France, ANTARES is sensitive to up-going
neutrinos from many potential galactic sources in the TeV to PeV energy regime.
Results from a time-integrated unbinned method as well as the sensitivity of
the detector using 2007-2010 data are presented. Moreover, using a
time-dependent search for the transient sources, the background rejection and
point-source sensitivity can be drastically improved by selecting a narrow time
window around the assumed neutrino production period. The gamma-ray light
curves of blazars measured by the LAT instrument on-board the Fermi satellite
reveal important time variability information. A strong correlation between the
gamma-ray and the neutrino fluxes is expected in a hadronic scenario. First
results on the search for ten bright and variable Fermi sources with the 2008
ANTARES data are also presented.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0783
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