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A precise understanding of the optical properties of the instrumented Antarctic ice sheet is crucial to the performance of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov array of 5,160 digital optical modules (DOMs) deployed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Dmitry Chirkin , Martin Rongen

The IceCube neutrino observatory in operation at the South Pole, Antarctica, comprises three distinct components: a large buried array for ultrahigh energy neutrino detection, a surface air shower array, and a new buried component called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov array deployed in the deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. An important feature of the instrumented ice are undulations of layers of constant optical properties over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Anna Eimer , Martin Rongen

IceCube-DeepCore is a compact Cherenkov detector located in the clear ice of the bottom center of the IceCube Neutrino Telescope. Its purpose is to enhance the sensitivity of IceCube for low neutrino energies (< 1 TeV) and to lower the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christopher Wiebusch

The IceCube Upgrade will expand the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with nearly 800 new optical modules. A large fraction of these will be multi-PMT optical modules (mDOMs), featuring 24 PMTs pointing uniformly in all directions, providing an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 D. van Eijk , J. Schneider , M. Unland

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has been completed in December 2010. In this paper we describe the final detector and report results on physics and performance using data taken at different stages of the yet incomplete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The IceCube Collaboration

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector at the South Pole which detects high-energy particles emerging from astrophysical events. These particles provide us with insights into the fundamental properties and behaviour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Paras Koundal , Matthias Plum , Julian Saffer

We present the current status of the IceTop air shower array on top of the IceCube neutrino detector that IceTop can use as a huge detector of TeV muons. We laos give a brief discussion of different types of air shower events that contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Todor Stanev

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

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope under construction at the geographic South Pole. Once completed it will comprise 4800 optical sensors deployed on 80 vertical strings at depths in the ice between 1450 and 2450 meters. Part of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisa Bernardini

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

IceAct is an array of compact Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes at the ice surface as part of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The telescopes, featuring a camera of 61 silicon photomultipliers and fresnel-lens-based optics, are optimized to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Lars Heuermann

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is equipped with the unique possibility to measure cosmic ray induced air showers simultaneously by their particle footprint on the surface with the IceTop detector and by the high-energy muonic shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Larissa Paul

The IceCube collaboration has built an in-ice neutrino telescope and a surface detector array, IceTop, at the South Pole. Over 5000 digital optical modules have been deployed in a cubic kilometer of ice between 1450 and 2450 m below the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 James Madsen

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an in-ice ultrahigh energy (UHE) neutrino experiment at the South Pole. ARA aims to detect the radio emissions from neutrino-induced particle showers using in-ice clusters of antennas buried ${\sim}200$ m…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Marco Stein Muzio

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

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole designed to study the high-energy neutrino sky from TeV to EeV energies with a five times better point source sensitivity than the current IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-26 Anastasiia Omeliukh

We report on the current construction status of the IceCube high energy neutrino observatory and possible future construction plans. With the completion of the fourth construction season in Feb. 2008, the observatory is now instrumenting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Ribordy

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-component detector embedded deep within the South-Pole Ice. This proceeding will discuss an analysis from an integrated operation of IceCube and its surface array, IceTop, to estimate cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-19 Paras Koundal

We present the design and science case for a new array of radio antennas to be located at the Pierre Auger Observatory. Six stations of three SKALA antennas each will be deployed around a single water-Cherenkov surface detector triggering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Stef Verpoest , Frank Schroeder , Alexander Novikov , Alan Coleman , Benjamin Flaggs , Andreas Weindl , Megha Venugopal , Carmen Merx , Andreas Haungs