Point-like source searches with ANTARES

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Point-like source searches with ANTARES RICAP Conference Rome, 20-22 June 2007 Juan de Dios Zornoza (IFIC - Valencia) on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration

Neutrino Astronomy Advantages w.r.t. other messengers: Photons: interact with CMB and matter Protons: interact with CMB and are deflected by magnetic fields Neutrons: are not stable Drawback: large detectors (~GTon) are needed.  n  p

Production Mechanism Neutrinos are expected to be produced in the interaction of high energy nucleons with matter or radiation: Cosmic rays Moreover, gammas are also produced in this scenario: Gamma ray astronomy

Astrophysical Sources Galactic sources: these are near objects (few kpc) so the luminosity requirements are much lower. Micro-quasars Supernova remnants Magnetars … Extra-galactic sources: most powerful sources in the Universe AGNs GRBs Isolated neutron stars with surface dipole magnetic fields ~1015 G, much larger than ordinary pulsars Seismic activity in the surface could induce particle acceleration in the magnetosphere Event rate: 1.5-13 (0.1/) ev/km2· y GRBs are brief explosions of  rays (often + X-ray, optical and radio) In the fireball model, matter moving at relativistic velocities collides with the surrounding material. The progenitor could be a collapsing super-massive star Neutrinos could be produced in several stages: precursor (TeV), main-burst (100 TeV-10 PeV), after-glow (EeV) Micro-quasars: a compact object (BH or NS) accreting matter from a companion star Neutrino beams could be produced in the MQ jets Several neutrinos per year could be detected by ANTARES Active Galactic Nuclei includes Seyferts, quasars, radio galaxies and blazars Standard model: a super-massive (106-108 Mo) black hole towards which large amounts of matter are accreted Detectable neutrino rates (~10-100 ev/year/km2) could be produced Different scenarios: plerions (center filled SNRs), shell-type SNRs, SNRs with energetic pulsars… 2 ev/km2 for RX J1713 and Vela Junior Refs: astro-ph/0404534, astro-ph/0607286, astro-ph/0204527

RXJ1713-3946 Data from HESS indicate that the emission of the shell-type supernova remnant RXJ1713-3946 seem to favor hadronic origin: increase of the flux in the directions of molecular clouds spectrum better fit by 0 decay low electron population according to observations in radio and X-rays Expected number of detected events would be ~10 events in five years in a km3 detector HESS image of RXJ1713-3946 synchrotron inverse Compton bremsstrahlung 0 decay

The ANTARES detector 7 lines deployed 5 connected and taking data Buoy 12 lines (900 PMTs) 25 storeys / line 3 PMT / storey Buoy 14.5 m Storey Horizontal layout 7 lines deployed 5 connected and taking data 350 m Junction box 100 m Electro-optical cable ~60-75 m Readout cables

Neutrino candidates by A. Heijboer First neutrino candidates have been reconstructed with the 5 lines deployed

Point-source search Several methods have been developed in ANTARES for cluster search: Grid method Cluster method Maximum likelihood ratio Expectation Maximization Binned Unbinned

Grid Method Sky is divided in a grid of rectangular bins The optimum size of the bins is calculated for maximum sensitivity, with the additional criteria of having the same number of background events per bin (=uniform sensitivity) Optimization Non optimal Optimal size Pi is the probability for the background to produce Ni or more events if there are Ntotal events in the declination band Significance: Si=log10(Pi)

Cluster Method For each event we calculate the number of events inside a cone. The background in the declination band of the considered event allows to determine the probability of a random fluctuation of the observed number of events. The size of cones is chosen for uniform background (= uniform sensitivity). d RA Pi is the probability of the background to produce the observed number of events N0 or more (up to the maximum number Ntotal).  is each element of the set CnNtotal of combinations of Ntotal elements in groups of n elements.

Maximum likelihood ratio The discrimination between signal and background is based on a test statistic  which uses the information on the spatial and energy distributions of signal and background: only background background + signal

Expectation Maximization The EM method is a pattern recognition algorithm that maximizes the likelihood in finite mixture problems, which are described by different density components (pdf) as: signal: RA,  bg: only  pdf position of event proportion of signal and background The idea is to assume that the set of observations forms a set of incomplete data vectors. The unknown information is whether the observed event belongs to a component or another. zi is the probability that the event comes from the source

Expectation Maximization The method works in two different steps: E-step: We evaluate the expectation of the complete data log Q (,m) for the current value of the parameter estimate m M-step: The maximization is performed in order to find the set of parameters m that maximizes Q (,m)

Model Selection in EM The parameter used for discriminating signal versus background is the Bayesian Information Criterion, which is the maximum likelihood ratio with a penalty that takes into account the number of free parameters in the model weighed by the number of events in the data sample. D: data set 0: parameters of bg 1: parameters of signal M: model k: number of parameters to be estimated BIC distribution for different number of sources events added (at =-80), compared with only background

Comparison between methods Unbinned methods show better performance, since more information is included (events outside the bin, distribution of events, angular error estimate, reconstructed energy…) The Expectation Maximization is the most powerful method among the ones that we have studied. Discovery power as a function of the mean number observed (after track reconstruction and quality cuts). Caution: different background samples.

Neutrino effective area The effective area relates the measured rate with the incoming flux: Effective area + visibility factor: Ndet=Aeff × Time × Flux Fraction of time a declination is visible from ANTARES location This effective area applies to steady sources, since the visibility factor is included. There is a dependence on the energy integration limits (particularly important for the lower one). This plot corresponds to an integration from 500 to 107 GeV

Sensitivity The expected sensitivity of ANTARES in effective days 365 days is of the same order that the present limits set by AMANDA (for the Northern Hemisphere), since the better angular resolution allows a better background rejection

Sensitivity after several years Sensitivity to a E-2 neutrino spectrum from a δ = - 60º declination point-like source for ANTARES, and NEMO (astro-ph/0611105) and averaged over all declinations in the Northern Sky for IceCube (astro-ph/0305196v1) with a 90% C.L. as a function of the exposure of the detector. The improvement from NEMO to IceCube is related to its better angular resolution

Conclusions ANTARES will be soon completed, having an unsurpassed angular resolution, which renders it an exceptional tool for search point-like neutrino sources Several cluster search methods have been developed in the collaboration, including both binned and unbinned Unbinned methods have better performance. The best sensitivity is obtained with the Expectation-Maximization algorithm The expected sensitivity of ANTARES for 365 days is comparable to the limits set by AMANDA in 1001 days (2000-2004)