%0 Journal Article
%@ 0031-9007
%A Collaboration, AMANDA
%A Ahrens, J
%D 2004
%F discovery:1374983
%J Physical Review Letters
%N 7
%T Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1374983/
%V 92
%X We present the results of a search for point sources of high energy neutrinos in the northern hemisphere using AMANDA-II data collected in the year 2000. Included are flux limits on several AGN blazars, microquasars, magnetars and other candidate neutrino sources. A search for excesses above a random background of cosmic-ray-induced atmospheric neutrinos and misreconstructed downgoing cosmic-ray muons reveals no statistically significant neutrino point sources. We show that AMANDA-II has achieved the sensitivity required to probe known TeV gamma-ray sources such as the blazar Markarian 501 in its 1997 flaring state at a level where neutrino and gamma-ray fluxes are equal.
%Z © 2004 The American Physical Society      5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to PRL