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Multimessenger Helmholtz-Nachwuchsgruppe
The group
The Helmholtz-University Young Investigator Group on "Multi-messenger studies of point sources of cosmic rays using data from IceCube" is working at DESY and focuses on the study of the very high energy emission of individual astrophysical sources by participating to two astrophysical projects: the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole and the MAGIC gamma-ray telescope in La Palma. The idea is to extend the "multi-wavelength" concept to the observation of neutrinos and ultimately develop a "multi-messenger" approach. The goal is to increase the discovery potential of IceCube, confirm the hadronic nature of cosmic accelerators, and allow to alert electromagnetic observations by neutrino signals, i.e. providing a clear "hadron trigger".
The main topics of activity of the group are the analysis of data from IceCube (neutrino telescope) and from gamma-ray telescopes (public data from different gamma-ray telescopes and active participation in the analysis of MAGIC data) along three different lines of study:
- Optimization of the sensitivity of the IceCube telescope to point sources of neutrinos and analysis of data from IceCube.
- Identification of the most promising periods and sources to search for coincident neutrinos based on data from gamma-ray telescopes.
- Development of common Target Of Opportunity strategies with the gamma-ray community.
- Analysis of MAGIC data from AGN monitoring
