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A list of neutrino candidate events recorded by the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope during the period 2000-2006.

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This data set is a list of neutrino candidate events recorded by the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope during the period 2000-2006. The events are mostly from atmospheric neutrinos with a typical energy of several hundred GeV. The events include a small fraction of misreconstructed cosmic ray muon tracks, where this contamination increases near the horizon.

Included are the right ascension, the declination and the angular resolution (in degrees) for each event. Also included are the number of modules hit (in the experiment's jargon referred to as the number of channels, Nch), a quantity that provides a rough measure of the energy of the event, and the Modified Julian Day (MJD). The accuracy of the MJD values is one second.

The final column is a flag indicating the subset of events used in the seven-year atmospheric neutrino analysis: R. Abbasi et al., Phys. Rev. D79, 102005 (2009). In order to further reduce background contamination due to atmospheric muons, this analysis imposes additional quality criteria, for instance, a restricted declination and Nch range.

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Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
DEC Delta (ICRS) Declination (ICRS decimal) deg pos.eq.dec
hscs_pos Position/Name Coordinates (as h m s, d m s or decimal degrees), or SIMBAD-resolvable object N/A N/A
hscs_sr Search radius Search radius in arcminutes N/A N/A
maxrec Match limit Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters. N/A N/A
maxrec Match limit Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters. N/A N/A
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day d time.epoch;obs
RA Alpha (ICRS) Right Ascension (ICRS decimal) deg pos.eq.ra
responseformat Output Format File format requested for output. N/A meta.code.mime
responseformat Output Format File format requested for output. N/A meta.code.mime
SR Search Radius Search radius deg N/A
verb Verbosity Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns. N/A N/A
verb Verbosity Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns. N/A N/A

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
_r Dist. Distance to cone center deg pos.distance
ang_error Ang. res. Angular resolution of a neutrino event deg pos.angResolution
atmoNuSubset Atmosph. Subset of candidates used in AMANDA's seven-year atmospheric neutrino analysis N/A meta.code
dej2000 Dec Neutrino arrival direction, Declination deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
id ID Artifical primary key. N/A meta.id;meta.main
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day d time.epoch;obs
nch Nch Number of optical modules hit in an event N/A meta.number
raj2000 RA Neutrino arrival direction, RA deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD Verb. Level
id ID Artifical primary key. N/A meta.id;meta.main 1
raj2000 RA Neutrino arrival direction, RA deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main 1
dej2000 Dec Neutrino arrival direction, Declination deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main 1
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day d time.epoch;obs 1
_r Dist. Distance to cone center deg pos.distance 10
ang_error Ang. res. Angular resolution of a neutrino event deg pos.angResolution 10
nch Nch Number of optical modules hit in an event N/A meta.number 15
atmoNuSubset Atmosph. Subset of candidates used in AMANDA's seven-year atmospheric neutrino analysis N/A meta.code 20
origin_est Est. Origin A circle around the most likely position with ang_error radius (for convenient matching). N/A pos.outline;obs.field 30

This data set has been provided by the IceCube collaboration. It is available at http://icecube.wisc.edu/science/data/amanda/.

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