Results from Seven Years of AMANDA-II

TL;DR

This paper reports seven years of data from the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope, highlighting atmospheric neutrino observations and searches for astrophysical neutrinos, and discusses its integration into the IceCube detector.

Contribution

It provides the first extensive dataset from AMANDA-II and details its role in the development of IceCube and future low-energy neutrino detection.

Findings

Detection of atmospheric neutrino flux

Searches for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic sources

AMANDA's data contributed to IceCube's development

Abstract

AMANDA is a first-generation high energy neutrino telescope, which has taken data at the South Pole in its final configuration since 2000. Results from seven years of operation are presented here, including observation of the atmopheric neutrino flux and searches for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic ray accelerators, gamma ray bursts, and dark matter annihilations. In 2007, AMANDA was incorporated into the IceCube neutrino telescope, where its higher density of instrumentation improves the low energy response. In the near future, AMANDA will be replaced by the IceCube Deep Core, a purpose-built low energy extension of IceCube.