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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| author | Halzen, F Hooper, D |
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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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| spelling | ftcern:oai:cds.cern.ch:621780 2025-01-17T00:51:28+00:00 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 |
| spellingShingle | Astrophysics and Astronomy Halzen, F Hooper, D Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title | Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title_full | Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title_fullStr | Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title_short | Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube |
| title_sort | gamma ray astronomy with icecube |
| topic | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| topic_facet | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/621780 |