Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube

We demonstrate that the South Pole kilometer-scale neutrino observatory IceCube can detect multi-TeV gamma rays continuously over a large fraction of the southern sky. While not as sensitive as pointing atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, IceCube can roughly match the sensitivity of Milagro. Also, IceC...

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Main Authors: Halzen, F, Hooper, D
Language:English
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Astrophysics and Astronomy
South Pole
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spelling ftcern:oai:cds.cern.ch:621780 2023-05-15T18:22:05+02:00 Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube Halzen, F Hooper, D 2003-05-13 http://cds.cern.ch/record/621780 eng eng http://cds.cern.ch/record/621780 astro-ph/0305234 MAD-PH-1329 oai:cds.cern.ch:621780 Astrophysics and Astronomy 2003 ftcern 2018-07-28T06:00:01Z We demonstrate that the South Pole kilometer-scale neutrino observatory IceCube can detect multi-TeV gamma rays continuously over a large fraction of the southern sky. While not as sensitive as pointing atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, IceCube can roughly match the sensitivity of Milagro. Also, IceCube is complementary to Milagro because it will observe, without interruption, a relatively poorly studied fraction of the southern sky. The information which IceCube must record to function as a gamma ray observatory is only the directions and possibly energies of down-going muons. Other/Unknown Material South pole CERN Document Server (CDS) South Pole
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Halzen, F
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Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube
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description We demonstrate that the South Pole kilometer-scale neutrino observatory IceCube can detect multi-TeV gamma rays continuously over a large fraction of the southern sky. While not as sensitive as pointing atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, IceCube can roughly match the sensitivity of Milagro. Also, IceCube is complementary to Milagro because it will observe, without interruption, a relatively poorly studied fraction of the southern sky. The information which IceCube must record to function as a gamma ray observatory is only the directions and possibly energies of down-going muons.
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Hooper, D
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