Sensitivity of an underwater Cerenkov km3 telescope to TeV neutrinos from Galactic Microquasars

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dc.creatorDistefano, C.
dc.creatorCollaboration, the NEMO
dc.date2006-08-02
dc.date2007-03-17
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dc.descriptionIn this paper are presented the results of Monte Carlo simulations on the capability of the proposed NEMO-km$^3$ telescope to detect TeV muon neutrinos from Galactic microquasars. For each known microquasar we compute the number of detectable events, together with the atmospheric neutrino and muon background events. We also discuss the detector sensitivity to neutrino fluxes expected from known microquasars, optimizing the event selection also to reject the background; the number of events surviving the event selection are given. The best candidates are the steady microquasars SS433 and GX339-4 for which we estimate a sensitivity of about $5\cdot10^{-11}$ erg/cm$^2$ s; the predicted fluxes are expected to be well above this sensitivity. For bursting microquasars the most interesting candidates are Cygnus X-3, GRO J1655-40 and XTE J1118+480: their analyses are more complicated because of the stochastic nature of the bursts.
dc.description20 pages, 3 figures, accepted by Astroparticle Physics
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608053
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608053
dc.identifierAstropart.Phys.28:1-9,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.03.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181121
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleSensitivity of an underwater Cerenkov km3 telescope to TeV neutrinos from Galactic Microquasars
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