ANITA 与 ANITA-lite 的现状
天体物理学
2011-05-12 v2
摘要
我们描述了一项新实验，用于搜索能量高于 3 x 10^18 eV 的中子，通过观察由中子引发的级联产生的短时脉冲来实现。ANtarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (ANITA) 任务的首要目标是测量 Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) 中子通量并搜索来自活跃星系核 (AGN) 的中子。我们 presenting 来自成功发射的 2 天体原型仪器 (称为 ANITA-lite) 的首次结果，该仪器在 03/04 年的南极任务中绕越了 18 天，并展示了来自南极冰中电磁波在射频频段的衰减长度研究的初步结果。ANITA 检测器由 NASA 资助，首次飞行计划于 2006 年 12 月进行。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411007,
title = {Status of ANITA and ANITA-lite},
author = {A. Silvestri and S. W. Barwick and J. J. Beatty and D. Z. Besson and W. R. Binns and B. Cai and J. M. Clem and A. Connolly and D. F. Cowen and P. F. Dowkontt and M. A. DuVernois and P. A. Evenson and D. Goldstein and P. W. Gorham and C. L. Hebert and M. H. Israel and H. Krawzczynski and J. G. Learned and K. M. Liewer and J. T. Link and S. Matsuno and P. Miocinovic and J. Nam and C. J. Naudet and R. Nichol and M. Rosen and D. Saltzberg and D. Seckel and G. S. Varner and F. Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411007},
year = {2011}
}
备注
9 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Proceedings of International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice, Italy, 2-13 July 2004