In a previous study, we have shown that spectral and anisotropy properties of IceCube astrophysical neutrino signals reveal evidence for a sizeable Galactic contribution to the neutrino flux in the Southern Hemisphere. We check if the Galactic contribution is detectable in the astrophysical muon neutrino flux observed from a low positive declinations region of the Northern sky. Estimating the Galactic neutrino flux in this part of the sky from $\gamma$-ray and Southern sky neutrino data, we find that the Northern sky astrophysical muon neutrino signal shows an excess over the Galactic flux. This points to the presence of an additional hard spectrum (extragalactic or large-scale Galactic halo) component of the astrophysical neutrino flux. We show that the Galactic flux component should still be detectable in the muon neutrino data in a decade-long IceCube exposure.

• Received 22 March 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.123002