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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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305234 2023-05-15T18:22:05+02:00 Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube Halzen, Francis Hooper, Dan 2003 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305234 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305234 unknown arXiv https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2003/08/006 Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences article-journal Article ScholarlyArticle Text 2003 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305234 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2003/08/006 2022-04-01T16:36:44Z 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. : 13 pages Text South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole |
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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. : 13 pages |
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