Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction
From an elevation of ~38 km, the balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is designed to detect the up-coming radio frequency (RF) signal resulting from a sub-surface neutrino-nucleon collision. Although no neutrinos have been discovered thus far, ANITA is nevertheless the only ex...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1301.4423 2023-05-15T13:43:38+02:00 Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction Besson, D. Z. Stockham, J. Sullivan, M. Allison, P. Barwick, S. W. Baughman, B. M. Beatty, J. J. Belov, K. Bevan, S. Binns, W. R. Chen, C. Chen, P. Clem, J. M. Connolly, A. De Marco, D. Dowkontt, P. F. DuVernois, M. Goldstein, D. Gorham, P. W. Grashorn, E. W. Hill, B. Hoover, S. Huang, M. Israel, M. H. Javaid, A. Kowalski, J. Learned, J. Liewer, K. M. Matsuno, S. Mercurio, B. C. Miki, C. Mottram, M. Nam, J. Naudet, C. J. Nichol, R. J. Palladino, K. Romero-Wolf, A. Ruckman, L. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, D. Shang, R. Y. Stockham, M. Varner, G. S. Vieregg, A. G. Wang, Y. 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1301.4423 https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4423 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1301.4423 2022-04-01T13:38:24Z From an elevation of ~38 km, the balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is designed to detect the up-coming radio frequency (RF) signal resulting from a sub-surface neutrino-nucleon collision. Although no neutrinos have been discovered thus far, ANITA is nevertheless the only experiment to self-trigger on radio frequency emissions from cosmic-ray induced atmospheric air showers. In the majority of those cases, down-coming RF signals are observed via their reflection from the Antarctic ice sheet and back up to the ANITA interferometer. Estimating the energy scale of the incident cosmic rays therefore requires an estimate of the fractional power reflected at the air-ice interface. Similarly, inferring the energy of neutrinos interacting in-ice from observations of the upwards-directed signal refracting out to ANITA also requires consideration of signal coherence across the interface. By comparing the direct Solar RF signal intensity measured with ANITA to the surface-reflected Solar signal intensity, as a function of incident elevation angle relative to the surface Θ, we estimate the power reflection coefficients R(Θ). We find general consistency between our average measurements and the values of R(Θ) expected from the Fresnel equations, separately for horizontal- vs. vertical-polarizations. : final version as accepted for publication by Radio Science Report Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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From an elevation of ~38 km, the balloon-borne ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is designed to detect the up-coming radio frequency (RF) signal resulting from a sub-surface neutrino-nucleon collision. Although no neutrinos have been discovered thus far, ANITA is nevertheless the only experiment to self-trigger on radio frequency emissions from cosmic-ray induced atmospheric air showers. In the majority of those cases, down-coming RF signals are observed via their reflection from the Antarctic ice sheet and back up to the ANITA interferometer. Estimating the energy scale of the incident cosmic rays therefore requires an estimate of the fractional power reflected at the air-ice interface. Similarly, inferring the energy of neutrinos interacting in-ice from observations of the upwards-directed signal refracting out to ANITA also requires consideration of signal coherence across the interface. By comparing the direct Solar RF signal intensity measured with ANITA to the surface-reflected Solar signal intensity, as a function of incident elevation angle relative to the surface Θ, we estimate the power reflection coefficients R(Θ). We find general consistency between our average measurements and the values of R(Θ) expected from the Fresnel equations, separately for horizontal- vs. vertical-polarizations. : final version as accepted for publication by Radio Science |
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Besson, D. Z. Stockham, J. Sullivan, M. Allison, P. Barwick, S. W. Baughman, B. M. Beatty, J. J. Belov, K. Bevan, S. Binns, W. R. Chen, C. Chen, P. Clem, J. M. Connolly, A. De Marco, D. Dowkontt, P. F. DuVernois, M. Goldstein, D. Gorham, P. W. Grashorn, E. W. Hill, B. Hoover, S. Huang, M. Israel, M. H. Javaid, A. Kowalski, J. Learned, J. Liewer, K. M. Matsuno, S. Mercurio, B. C. Miki, C. Mottram, M. Nam, J. Naudet, C. J. Nichol, R. J. Palladino, K. Romero-Wolf, A. Ruckman, L. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, D. Shang, R. Y. Stockham, M. Varner, G. S. Vieregg, A. G. Wang, Y. |
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Besson, D. Z. Stockham, J. Sullivan, M. Allison, P. Barwick, S. W. Baughman, B. M. Beatty, J. J. Belov, K. Bevan, S. Binns, W. R. Chen, C. Chen, P. Clem, J. M. Connolly, A. De Marco, D. Dowkontt, P. F. DuVernois, M. Goldstein, D. Gorham, P. W. Grashorn, E. W. Hill, B. Hoover, S. Huang, M. Israel, M. H. Javaid, A. Kowalski, J. Learned, J. Liewer, K. M. Matsuno, S. Mercurio, B. C. Miki, C. Mottram, M. Nam, J. Naudet, C. J. Nichol, R. J. Palladino, K. Romero-Wolf, A. Ruckman, L. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, D. Shang, R. Y. Stockham, M. Varner, G. S. Vieregg, A. G. Wang, Y. |
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Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction |
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Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction |
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Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction |
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Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction |
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Antarctic Radio Frequency Albedo and Implications for Cosmic Ray Reconstruction |
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antarctic radio frequency albedo and implications for cosmic ray reconstruction |
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Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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