%O © 2004 The American Physical Society


5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to PRL
%D 2004
%V 92
%N 7
%L discovery1374983
%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.
%J Physical Review Letters
%A AMANDA Collaboration
%A J Ahrens
%T Search for extraterrestrial point sources of neutrinos with AMANDA-II