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IceCube is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino detector instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole in Antarctica. On average, 8 track-like high-energy neutrino events with a high probability of being astrophysical are detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Martina Karl

Realtime analyses are necessary to identify the source of high energy neutrinos. As an observatory with a 4$\pi$ steradian field of view and near-100% duty cycle, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a unique facility for investigating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Alex Pizzuto , Abhishek Desai , Raamis Hussain

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 $km^{3}$ detector currently under construction at the South Pole. Searching for high energy neutrinos from unresolved astrophysical sources is one of the main analysis strategies used in the search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-04 Sean Grullon

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world's largest neutrino detector, instrumenting a cubic kilometer of ice at the geographic South Pole. The detector probes neutrino energies from GeV to PeV, and collects high statistics neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-12 Dawn R. Williams

The IceCube realtime alert system has been operating since 2016. It provides prompt alerts on high-energy neutrino events to the astroparticle physics community. The localization regions for the incoming direction of neutrinos are published…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-03 Massimiliano Lincetto , Eric Evans-Jacquez , Benedikt Riedel , David Schultz , Tianlu Yuan

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, is a Cherenkov detector that continuously monitors a cubic kilometer of instrumented glacial ice for neutrino interactions in the sub-TeV to EeV energy range. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-04 Hans Niederhausen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, deployed inside the deep glacial ice at the South Pole, is the largest neutrino telescope in the world. While eight years have passed since IceCube discovered a diffuse flux of high-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Chiara Bellenghi , Theo Glauch , Christian Haack , Tomas Kontrimas , Hans Niederhausen , Rene Reimann , Martin Wolf

Sources of astrophysical neutrinos can potentially be discovered through the detection of neutrinos in coincidence with electromagnetic counterparts. Real-time alerts generated by IceCube play an important role in this search, acting as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 G. Sommani , C. Lagunas Gualda , H. Niederhausen

In 2016, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory launched its realtime program. When a neutrino candidate of likely astrophysical origin is detected, a public alert is issued, typically within one minute. These alerts allow the astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Giacomo Sommani , Tianlu Yuan

The recent association between IC-170922A and the blazar TXS0506+056 highlights the importance of real-time observations for identifying possible astrophysical neutrino sources. Thanks to its near-100\% duty cycle, 4$\pi$ steradian field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 Kevin Meagher , Alex Pizzuto , Justin Vandenbroucke

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole. Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles from neutrino interactions is observed by IceCube using an array of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Kevin J. Meagher

Multimessenger astronomy seeks to uncover the origins of cosmic rays and neutrinos. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory plays a key role in monitoring the sky for revealing high energy neutrinos and neutrino time clusters possibly associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Caterina Boscolo Meneguolo , Elisa Bernardini , Jean-Pierre Jonckheere , Sarah Mancina

IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity of the IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of neutrinos,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Karle

In 2016, IceCube initiated a system of public real-time alerts that are typically issued within one minute, following the detection of a neutrino candidate event that is likely to be of astrophysical origin. The goal of these alerts is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Erik Blaufuss , Thomas Kintscher , Lu Lu , Chun Fai Tung

With the recent discovery of high-energy neutrinos of extra-terrestrial origin by the IceCube neutrino observatory, neutrino-astronomy is entering a new era. This review will cover currently operating open water/ice neutrino telescopes, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Marek Kowalski

The IceCube Observatory is a km^3 neutrino telescope currently under construction at the geographic South Pole. It will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings between 1450 and 2450 meters under the ice surface.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Paolo Desiati

IceCube is a cubic kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole. The primary goal is to discover astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. We describe the detector and present results on atmospheric muon neutrinos…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Kiryluk

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory searches for the origins of astrophysical neutrinos using various techniques to overcome the significant backgrounds produced by cosmic-ray air showers. One such technique involves combining the neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Sarah Mancina , Sergio Cuenca , Elisa Bernardini

In 2013, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the geographic South Pole detected evidence for a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux above ~60 TeV. To this day, IceCube has operated with full detector configuration for more than 6…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-20 Donglian Xu

IceCube is a kilometer-scale high energy neutrino telescope under construction at the South Pole, a second-generation instrument expanding the capabilities of the AMANDA telescope. The scientific portfolio of IceCube includes the detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Tyce DeYoung
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