| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 116, 2016
Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope (VLVnT-2015)
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| Article Number | 10002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Multi-Messengers Research | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611610002 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611610002
Capabilities of IceCube's gamma-ray, optical and X-ray follow-up programs
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
a e-mail: thomas.kintscher@desy.de
Published online: 11 April 2016
The IceCube neutrino observatory is a 1 km3 detector for Cherenkov light in the ice at the South Pole. Although the presence of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux has been confirmed, its origin has yet to be resolved. Given the current constraints on continuous point source searches, transient and variable objects emerge as promising, detectable source candidates. IceCube boosts the sensitivity to these types of sources by alerting third-party observatories of neutrino events clustered in direction and time. This paper will showcase several neutrino-triggered multi-messenger programs in IceCube along with their results and prospects.
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