Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube

Dan Hooper; Francis Halzen

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Gamma Ray Astronomy With IceCube

Francis Halzen, Dan Hooper

Astrophysics · Submitted 13 May 2003

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The authors' main claim 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.

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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.

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s3	The information which IceCube must record to function as a gamma ray observatory is only the directions and possibly energies of down-going muons.	method 0.97	0.41	0.07	asserted 0.89

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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.

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The possibility of using muon detectors in general, and IceCube in particular, as a gamma-ray telescope has been extensively studied [ref] and has been exploited to put limits on the TeV emission of a soft gamma-ray-repeater [ref] .

Gamma-ray Astronomy with Muons: Sensitivity of IceCube to PeVatrons in the Southern Sky · Introduction and Summary of Results · 0.90

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