Neutrino Astronomy: from AMANDA to Icecube
Abstract
The case for neutrino astronomy has been made since the 1950's by pioneers who realized that of all high-energy particles only neutrinos can directly convey astrophysical information from the edge of the Universe and from deep inside its most cataclysmic high-energy regions near black holes. With the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA) we have performed the first scans of the sky using neutrinos of TeV-energy and above as cosmic messengers. Most importantly by observing neutrinos produced by cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere we presented a proof of concept for an expandable technology with which to build the ultimate kilometer-scale neutrino observatory IceCube now under construction.
- Publication:
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IAU Special Session
- Pub Date:
- 2003
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0311004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0311004
- Bibcode:
- 2003IAUSS...2E..44H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Talk presented at the IAU XXV General Assembly, Sydney, Australia, July 2003. 8 pages, Latex2e with graphicx.sty, 4 postscript figures