Alicia Fattorini

Analysis of Neutrino Follow-Up Observations by MAGIC

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos e.g. by IceCube presents new astronomical opportunities. Hitherto the angular resolution of IceCube, about 1 deg, provided by current track reconstructions and limited statistics does not deliver sufficient accuracy to confidently identify point sources. When a potential astrophysical neutrino candidate is detected by IceCube, an alert with the reconstructed coordinates is sent to MAGIC, a pair of gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes, where follow-up observations are made in search of a correlated gamma-ray flux. As MAGIC is designed to observe sources with well known coordinates, the analysis for discovering sources in a given region has to be modified. Different statistical methods for identifying point sources as possible neutrino sources are studied. This talk presents an overview of different techniques of deriving skymaps for point source searches.