Monitoring the Night Sky for IceACT
The neutral subatomic neutrinos are astronomical messengers that can provide us information to investigate the most violent astrophysical sources: supernovas, gamma-ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. As these astrophysical neutrinos freely travel from thei...
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ftunivnflorida:oai:digitalcommons.unf.edu:soars-1230 2023-05-15T13:38:07+02:00 Monitoring the Night Sky for IceACT Alderete, Andre Sierra Hewitt, John W. Huelsnitz, Warren 2021-04-07T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/soars/2021/spring_2021/20 https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=soars unknown UNF Digital Commons https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/soars/2021/spring_2021/20 https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=soars Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research and Scholarship (SOARS) SOARS (Conference) (2021 : University of North Florida) – Archives SOARS (Conference) (2021 : University of North Florida) – Posters University of North Florida -- Students -- Research – Posters University of North Florida. Office of Undergraduate Research University of North Florida. Graduate School College students – Research -- Florida – Jacksonville – Posters University of North Florida – Undergraduates -- Research – Posters University of North Florida. Department of Physics -- Research – Posters Astronomical instruments – Posters Astronomy -- Posters Astrophysics and Astronomy Physics text 2021 ftunivnflorida 2022-12-09T07:56:24Z The neutral subatomic neutrinos are astronomical messengers that can provide us information to investigate the most violent astrophysical sources: supernovas, gamma-ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. As these astrophysical neutrinos freely travel from their point of origin without being scattered by interstellar magnetic fields, we can analyze these particles by observing cosmic-ray air showers on the Earth’s atmosphere. These are produced by the energetic neutrinos by interacting with the air particles that produce a wavefront of Cherenkov radiation. To better identify these background neutrinos, IceCube, the South Pole Neutrino Observatory, constructed an imaging air Cherenkov telescopes otherwise known as IceACT, that are located at the South Pole. These telescopes contain the resources to detect the atmospheric muons produced by the cosmic-ray air showers. Furthermore, IceACT can independently calibrate the angular reconstruction of IceCube to provide accurate results in future trials. Our objective is to further conclude that the data obtained by IceACT supports the readings by IceCube by providing an analysis that the Antarctic night sky interferes of detecting any possible indications of Cherenkov radiation. Through analyzing a sample size of 30 detected stars, we found that only about 60% of the photometric measurements are explained by a linear fit. Furthermore, calibrating the transparency of the atmosphere for IceACT measurements can be done to an uncertainty of approximately 0.5 magnitudes. Text Antarc* Antarctic South pole South pole University of North Florida (UNF): Digital Commons Antarctic South Pole The Antarctic |
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The neutral subatomic neutrinos are astronomical messengers that can provide us information to investigate the most violent astrophysical sources: supernovas, gamma-ray bursts, and cataclysmic phenomena involving black holes and neutron stars. As these astrophysical neutrinos freely travel from their point of origin without being scattered by interstellar magnetic fields, we can analyze these particles by observing cosmic-ray air showers on the Earth’s atmosphere. These are produced by the energetic neutrinos by interacting with the air particles that produce a wavefront of Cherenkov radiation. To better identify these background neutrinos, IceCube, the South Pole Neutrino Observatory, constructed an imaging air Cherenkov telescopes otherwise known as IceACT, that are located at the South Pole. These telescopes contain the resources to detect the atmospheric muons produced by the cosmic-ray air showers. Furthermore, IceACT can independently calibrate the angular reconstruction of IceCube to provide accurate results in future trials. Our objective is to further conclude that the data obtained by IceACT supports the readings by IceCube by providing an analysis that the Antarctic night sky interferes of detecting any possible indications of Cherenkov radiation. Through analyzing a sample size of 30 detected stars, we found that only about 60% of the photometric measurements are explained by a linear fit. Furthermore, calibrating the transparency of the atmosphere for IceACT measurements can be done to an uncertainty of approximately 0.5 magnitudes. |
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