Galactic Plane Analysis

John Kelley, UW-Madison, June 2005

Galactic Plane ICRC Presentation

Version 1.4 (final), as presented on August 6, 2005 (ppt, 2.5MB or pdf, 8.1MB)

• Removed extra slides for distribution.
• Removed second spatial profile slide.

Version 1.3, July 28, 2005

• Added plot of unblinded galactic latitude distribution.

Version 1.2, July 27, 2005

• Clarified result slide.

Version 1.1, July 26, 2005

• Replaced LSF plot with diagram showing different spatial profiles

Version 1.0, July 26, 2005

• Initial version

Galactic Plane ICRC Paper

Referees: Ignacio Taboada, Patrick Berghaus.

SUBMITTED to arXiv: Version 1.4.1, September 19, 2005 (astro-ph/0509546)

• Cosmetic changes: added plot references in text, added reference to IceCube author list.
• Changed figures from PDF to EPS.

SUBMITTED to ICRC: Version 1.4, June 29, 2005 (pdf, 175K)

• Minor changes; added systematics references.
• Added event upper limits to result table.

Version 1.3, June 27, 2005

• Minor changes; cleared by referees.
• References now in standard IceCube format.

Version 1.2, June 25, 2005

• Incorporated second-pass comments from referees.
• Corrected model predictions for oscillations.
• Systematic errors incorporated in all limits.

Version 1.1, June 22, 2005

• Incorporated first-pass comments from referees and others.
• Restructured conclusions and added estimate for IceCube.
• Nicer plot for signal/background regions.
• Systematic error treatment partially corrected; still not finished.

Version 1.0, June 6, 2005

• Treatment of systematics is still quite preliminary.