Matt Kistler homepage.  Matthew Kistler  Dissecting the Cygnus Region with TeV Gamma Rays and Neutrinos

Milagro, an all-sky gamma-ray telescope, has measured TeV emission from a number of locations in the northern sky, the most notable of these being the Cygnus region.  The emission from Cygnus arises from at least two (unidentified) point sources as well as a diffuse component.  Along with John Beacom, we attempt to make sense of this region by identifying possible counterparts to the new gamma-ray source, MGRO J2019+37, and utilizing existing gamma-ray data to construct possible spectra.  As this data is reasonably well-fit by a simple hadronic model, we further consider the prospects for detecting this source with the cubic-kilometer neutrino detector IceCube.