Search for point sources of cosmic neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope

Abstract

The ANTARES detector is currently the largest deep-sea neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. Located on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the French coast, it consists of a three-dimensional array of 885 photomultiplier tubes which detect the Cherenkov light induced by the muons produced in the interaction of high energy cosmic neutrinos with the matter surrounding the detector. The main goal of ANTARES is the search for cosmic neutrinos and their sources. In this contribution preliminary results of the search for point sources of high energy neutrinos with the data gathered in 2007 and 2008 are presented, including some of the most stringent upper limits on the neutrino flux in the world.