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A list of neutrino candidate events recorded by the IceCube neutrino telescope operating in a 40 string configuration between April 2008 and May 2009.

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This data set is a list of neutrino candidate events recorded by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in the 40 string configuration which operated during April 2008 and May 2009. This list of candidate events was used to search for neutrinos from unresolved astrophysical sources. The events are consistent with a conventional atmospheric neutrino spectrum. Details of the analysis are outlined in http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5187v4.

Included are the right ascension and the declination in degrees, the estimated energy loss of the neutrino-induced muons propagating through the ice in GeV/m, the estimated muon energy at closest distance to the center of the IceCube detector in GeV, the number of triggered optical modules commonly referred to as the number of channels (NCh), and the Modified Julian Day (MJD).

A repository of publicly available 40-string data is available at http://icecube.wisc.edu/science/IC40.

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2008.26 2009.38

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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
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day N/A 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
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

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
evid Id GAVO-local event id, IAU-format N/A meta.id;meta.main
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day N/A time.epoch;obs
muE Muon Energy Estimated muon energy at closest distance to the center of the IceCube detector GeV phys.energy
muELoss Muon (dE/dX) Estimated muon energy loss in ice GeV/m phys.absorption
nch Nch Number of optical modules hit in an event N/A meta.number
nualpha RA Neutrino arrival direction, RA deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
nudelta Dec Neutrino arrival direction, Declination deg pos.eq.dec;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
evid Id GAVO-local event id, IAU-format N/A meta.id;meta.main 1
nualpha RA Neutrino arrival direction, RA deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main 1
nudelta Dec Neutrino arrival direction, Declination deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main 1
_r Dist. Distance to cone center deg pos.distance 10
muELoss Muon (dE/dX) Estimated muon energy loss in ice GeV/m phys.absorption 10
muE Muon Energy Estimated muon energy at closest distance to the center of the IceCube detector GeV phys.energy 10
mjd MJD Observation time, Modified Julian Day N/A time.epoch;obs 10
nch Nch Number of optical modules hit in an event N/A meta.number 15

This data set has been provided by the IceCube collaboration. It is also available at http://icecube.wisc.edu/science/data/ic40.

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