A Search for Neutrino Point-Source Populations in 7 Years of IceCube Data with Neutrino-count Statistics. (arXiv:1909.08623v1 [astro-ph.HE])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Collaboration_IceCube/0/1/0/all/0/1">IceCube Collaboration</a>: <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Aartsen_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">M. G. Aartsen</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ackermann_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">M. Ackermann</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Adams_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. Adams</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Aguilar_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. A. Aguilar</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ahlers_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">M. Ahlers</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ahrens_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">M. Ahrens</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Alispach_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">C. Alispach</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Andeen_K/0/1/0/all/0/1">K. Andeen</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Anderson_T/0/1/0/all/0/1">T. Anderson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Ansseau_I/0/1/0/all/0/1">I. Ansseau</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Anton_G/0/1/0/all/0/1">G. Anton</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Arguelles_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">C. Arg&#xfc;elles</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Auffenberg_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. Auffenberg</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Axani_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. Axani</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Backes_P/0/1/0/all/0/1">P. Backes</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bagherpour_H/0/1/0/all/0/1">H. Bagherpour</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bai_X/0/1/0/all/0/1">X. Bai</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+V%2E_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">A. Balagopal V.</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Barbano_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">A. Barbano</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Barwick_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. W. Barwick</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bastian_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">B. Bastian</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Baum_V/0/1/0/all/0/1">V. Baum</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Baur_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. Baur</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bay_R/0/1/0/all/0/1">R. Bay</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Beatty_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. J. Beatty</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Becker_K/0/1/0/all/0/1">K.-H. Becker</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Tjus_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. Becker Tjus</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+BenZvi_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. BenZvi</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Berley_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">D. Berley</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bernardini_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">E. Bernardini</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Besson_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">D. Z. Besson</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Binder_G/0/1/0/all/0/1">G. Binder</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bindig_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">D. Bindig</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Blaufuss_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">E. Blaufuss</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Blot_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. Blot</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bohm_C/0/1/0/all/0/1">C. Bohm</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Borner_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">M. B&#xf6;rner</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Boser_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">S. B&#xf6;ser</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Botner_O/0/1/0/all/0/1">O. Botner</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bottcher_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. B&#xf6;ttcher</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bourbeau_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">E. Bourbeau</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bourbeau_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">J. Bourbeau</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Bradascio_F/0/1/0/all/0/1">F. 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The presence of a population of point sources in a dataset modifies the
underlying neutrino-count statistics from the Poisson distribution. This
deviation can be exactly quantified using the non-Poissonian template fitting
technique, and in this work we present the first application this approach to
the IceCube high-energy neutrino dataset. Using this method, we search in 7
years of IceCube data for point-source populations correlated with the disk of
the Milky Way, the Fermi bubbles, the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, and Davis dust map,
or with the isotropic extragalactic sky. No evidence for such a population is
found in the data using this technique, and in the absence of a signal we
establish constraints on population models with source count distribution
functions that can be described by a power-law with a single break. The derived
limits can be interpreted in the context of many possible source classes. In
order to enhance the flexibility of the results, we publish the full posterior
from our analysis, which can be used to establish limits on specific population
models that would contribute to the observed IceCube neutrino flux.

The presence of a population of point sources in a dataset modifies the
underlying neutrino-count statistics from the Poisson distribution. This
deviation can be exactly quantified using the non-Poissonian template fitting
technique, and in this work we present the first application this approach to
the IceCube high-energy neutrino dataset. Using this method, we search in 7
years of IceCube data for point-source populations correlated with the disk of
the Milky Way, the Fermi bubbles, the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, and Davis dust map,
or with the isotropic extragalactic sky. No evidence for such a population is
found in the data using this technique, and in the absence of a signal we
establish constraints on population models with source count distribution
functions that can be described by a power-law with a single break. The derived
limits can be interpreted in the context of many possible source classes. In
order to enhance the flexibility of the results, we publish the full posterior
from our analysis, which can be used to establish limits on specific population
models that would contribute to the observed IceCube neutrino flux.

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