Measurement of Acoustic Attenuation in South Pole Ice

• Main Author: The IceCube Collaboration
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2010
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1004.1694; https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1694

Using the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) and a retrievable transmitter deployed in holes drilled for the IceCube experiment, we have measured the attenuation of acoustic signals by South Pole ice at depths between 190 m and 500 m. Three data sets, using different acoustic sources, have been...