A Calibration Study of the ANITA Instrument
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a balloon-borne experiment that flew for 35 days in the 2006/07 austral summer looking for ultra-high energy neutrinos (10^18-10^20eV) interacting within the Antarctic ice. These ultra-high energy neutrinos are believed to be produced primarily th...
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ftohiostateu:oai:kb.osu.edu:1811/32110 2023-05-15T13:37:41+02:00 A Calibration Study of the ANITA Instrument Williams, Christopher Beatty, James 2008-06 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32110 en_US eng The Ohio State University The Ohio State University. Department of Physics Honors Theses; 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/1811/32110 Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC-BY-ND Neutrino Astrophysics Cosmic Rays Thesis 2008 ftohiostateu 2020-08-22T19:17:55Z The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a balloon-borne experiment that flew for 35 days in the 2006/07 austral summer looking for ultra-high energy neutrinos (10^18-10^20eV) interacting within the Antarctic ice. These ultra-high energy neutrinos are believed to be produced primarily through cosmic ray attenuation by the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) via the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) mechanism. This research serves as a study of the observed radio background over the 1GHz (200MHz-1.2GHz) band that ANITA was sensitive to. We look for significant anthropogenic noise anomalies as well as confirmation of a thermal noise background. Radio noise from the sun and galactic center is also observed and confirmed to match predicted values. Analysis of the sun/galactic center radio noise was done using pointing software based on the payload's spatial location given by onboard GPS. We also study the synchronization of the on-board calibration pulsing antennas with the instrument's triggering system. This is necessary to confirm that events observed by hardware triggering have correctly matching information provided by software. No embargo Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Ohio State University (OSU): Knowledge Bank Antarctic Austral The Antarctic |
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The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) is a balloon-borne experiment that flew for 35 days in the 2006/07 austral summer looking for ultra-high energy neutrinos (10^18-10^20eV) interacting within the Antarctic ice. These ultra-high energy neutrinos are believed to be produced primarily through cosmic ray attenuation by the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) via the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) mechanism. This research serves as a study of the observed radio background over the 1GHz (200MHz-1.2GHz) band that ANITA was sensitive to. We look for significant anthropogenic noise anomalies as well as confirmation of a thermal noise background. Radio noise from the sun and galactic center is also observed and confirmed to match predicted values. Analysis of the sun/galactic center radio noise was done using pointing software based on the payload's spatial location given by onboard GPS. We also study the synchronization of the on-board calibration pulsing antennas with the instrument's triggering system. This is necessary to confirm that events observed by hardware triggering have correctly matching information provided by software. No embargo |
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A Calibration Study of the ANITA Instrument |
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A Calibration Study of the ANITA Instrument |
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