In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland
Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresponding to neutrino energies in excess of 0.01 Joules, or 1017...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:0eb6f025f05142b08a3356a8bbd5578b 2023-05-15T16:26:32+02:00 In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland J. A. Aguilar P. Allison J. J. Beatty D. Besson A. Bishop O. Botner S. Bouma S. Buitink M. Cataldo B. A. Clark Z. Curtis-Ginsberg A. Connolly P. Dasgupta S. de Kockere K. D. de Vries C. Deaconu M. A. DuVernois C. Glaser A. Hallgren S. Hallmann J. C. Hanson B. Hendricks C. Hornhuber K. Hughes A. Karle J. L. Kelley I. Kravchenko R. Krebs R. Lahmann U. Latif J. Mammo Z. S. Meyers K. Michaels K. Mulrey A. Nelles A. Novikov A. Nozdrina E. Oberla B. Oeyen Y. Pan H. Pandya I. Plaisier N. Punsuebsay L. Pyras D. Ryckbosch O. Scholten D. Seckel M. F. H. Seikh D. Smith D. Southall 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.40 https://doaj.org/article/0eb6f025f05142b08a3356a8bbd5578b EN eng Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022143022000405/type/journal_article https://doaj.org/toc/0022-1430 https://doaj.org/toc/1727-5652 doi:10.1017/jog.2022.40 0022-1430 1727-5652 https://doaj.org/article/0eb6f025f05142b08a3356a8bbd5578b Journal of Glaciology, Vol 68, Pp 1234-1242 (2022) Ground-penetrating radar ice physics ice thickness measurements radio-echo sounding Environmental sciences GE1-350 Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.40 2023-03-12T01:30:54Z Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresponding to neutrino energies in excess of 0.01 Joules, or 1017 electron volts). During the summer of 2021 and in tandem with the initial deployment of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G), we conducted radioglaciological measurements at Summit Station, Greenland to refine our understanding of the ice target. We report the result of one such measurement, the radio-frequency electric field attenuation length $L_\alpha$. We find an approximately linear dependence of $L_\alpha$ on frequency with the best fit of the average field attenuation for the upper 1500 m of ice: $\langle L_\alpha \rangle = ( ( 1154 \pm 121) - ( 0.81 \pm 0.14) \, ( \nu /{\rm MHz}) ) \,{\rm m}$ for frequencies ν ∈ [145 − 350] MHz. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Journal of Glaciology Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Greenland Journal of Glaciology 68 272 1234 1242 |
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Ground-penetrating radar ice physics ice thickness measurements radio-echo sounding Environmental sciences GE1-350 Meteorology. Climatology QC851-999 J. A. Aguilar P. Allison J. J. Beatty D. Besson A. Bishop O. Botner S. Bouma S. Buitink M. Cataldo B. A. Clark Z. Curtis-Ginsberg A. Connolly P. Dasgupta S. de Kockere K. D. de Vries C. Deaconu M. A. DuVernois C. Glaser A. Hallgren S. Hallmann J. C. Hanson B. Hendricks C. Hornhuber K. Hughes A. Karle J. L. Kelley I. Kravchenko R. Krebs R. Lahmann U. Latif J. Mammo Z. S. Meyers K. Michaels K. Mulrey A. Nelles A. Novikov A. Nozdrina E. Oberla B. Oeyen Y. Pan H. Pandya I. Plaisier N. Punsuebsay L. Pyras D. Ryckbosch O. Scholten D. Seckel M. F. H. Seikh D. Smith D. Southall In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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Over the last 25 years, radiowave detection of neutrino-generated signals, using cold polar ice as the neutrino target, has emerged as perhaps the most promising technique for detection of extragalactic ultra-high energy neutrinos (corresponding to neutrino energies in excess of 0.01 Joules, or 1017 electron volts). During the summer of 2021 and in tandem with the initial deployment of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G), we conducted radioglaciological measurements at Summit Station, Greenland to refine our understanding of the ice target. We report the result of one such measurement, the radio-frequency electric field attenuation length $L_\alpha$. We find an approximately linear dependence of $L_\alpha$ on frequency with the best fit of the average field attenuation for the upper 1500 m of ice: $\langle L_\alpha \rangle = ( ( 1154 \pm 121) - ( 0.81 \pm 0.14) \, ( \nu /{\rm MHz}) ) \,{\rm m}$ for frequencies ν ∈ [145 − 350] MHz. |
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J. A. Aguilar P. Allison J. J. Beatty D. Besson A. Bishop O. Botner S. Bouma S. Buitink M. Cataldo B. A. Clark Z. Curtis-Ginsberg A. Connolly P. Dasgupta S. de Kockere K. D. de Vries C. Deaconu M. A. DuVernois C. Glaser A. Hallgren S. Hallmann J. C. Hanson B. Hendricks C. Hornhuber K. Hughes A. Karle J. L. Kelley I. Kravchenko R. Krebs R. Lahmann U. Latif J. Mammo Z. S. Meyers K. Michaels K. Mulrey A. Nelles A. Novikov A. Nozdrina E. Oberla B. Oeyen Y. Pan H. Pandya I. Plaisier N. Punsuebsay L. Pyras D. Ryckbosch O. Scholten D. Seckel M. F. H. Seikh D. Smith D. Southall |
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J. A. Aguilar P. Allison J. J. Beatty D. Besson A. Bishop O. Botner S. Bouma S. Buitink M. Cataldo B. A. Clark Z. Curtis-Ginsberg A. Connolly P. Dasgupta S. de Kockere K. D. de Vries C. Deaconu M. A. DuVernois C. Glaser A. Hallgren S. Hallmann J. C. Hanson B. Hendricks C. Hornhuber K. Hughes A. Karle J. L. Kelley I. Kravchenko R. Krebs R. Lahmann U. Latif J. Mammo Z. S. Meyers K. Michaels K. Mulrey A. Nelles A. Novikov A. Nozdrina E. Oberla B. Oeyen Y. Pan H. Pandya I. Plaisier N. Punsuebsay L. Pyras D. Ryckbosch O. Scholten D. Seckel M. F. H. Seikh D. Smith D. Southall |
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In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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In situ, broadband measurement of the radio frequency attenuation length at Summit Station, Greenland |
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