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William Carithers

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The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

2012

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of large-scale structure. BOSS uses 1.5 million luminous galaxies as faint as i = 19.9 over 10,000 deg(2) to measure BAO to redshifts z < 0.7. Observations of neutral hydrogen in the Ly alpha forest in more than 150,000 quasar spectra (g < 22) will constrain BAO over the redshift range 2.15 < z < 3.5. Early results from BOSS include the first detection of the large-scale three-dimensional clustering of the Ly alpha forest and a strong detection from the Data R…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)[SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]FOS: Physical sciencesAstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsSurveysAstrophysics01 natural sciences[PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO]Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e AstrofisicaObservacions astronòmiques0103 physical sciencesPhysical Sciences and Mathematicsobservations [Cosmology]010303 astronomy & astrophysicsObservationsAstrophysics::Galaxy AstrophysicsPhysicsCosmologia010308 nuclear & particles physicsAngular diameter distanceAstrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for AstrophysicsAstronomy and AstrophysicsQuasarCosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsLyman-alpha forestRedshiftGalaxyCosmologyBaryonBossSpace and Planetary ScienceAstronomiaBaryon acoustic oscillationsAstronomical observationsAstrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY AND COSMIC RAYS AT THE SOUTH POLE: LATEST RESULTS FROM AMANDA AND PERSPECTIVES FOR ICECUBE

2005

The AMANDA neutrino telescope has been in operation at the South Pole since 1996. The present final array configuration, operational since 2000, consists of 677 photomultiplier tubes arranged in 19 strings, buried at depths between 1500 and 2000 m in the ice. The most recent results on a multi-year search for point sources of neutrinos will be shown. The study of events triggered in coincidence with the surface array SPASE and AMANDA provided a result on cosmic ray composition. Expected improvements from IceCube/IceTop will also be discussed.

PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhotomultiplierAstronomyAstronomy and AstrophysicsCosmic rayAstrophysicsSolar neutrino problemAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsCoincidencelaw.inventionTelescopeNeutrino detectorlawNeutrino astronomyNeutrinoInternational Journal of Modern Physics A
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Sensitivity of the IceCube detector to astrophysical sources of high energy muon neutrinos

2003

We present the results of a Monte-Carlo study of the sensitivity of the planned IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of muon neutrinos at TeV to PeV energies. A complete simulation of the detector and data analysis is used to study the detector's capability to search for muon neutrinos from sources such as active galaxies and gamma-ray bursts. We study the effective area and the angular resolution of the detector as a function of muon energy and angle of incidence. We present detailed calculations of the sensitivity of the detector to both diffuse and pointlike neutrino emissions, including an assessment of the sensitivity to neutrinos detected in coincidence with gamma-ray burst observatio…

PhysicsActive galactic nucleusMuonPhysics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaDetectorAstrophysics (astro-ph)Gamma rayFOS: Physical sciencesIceCube; Neutrino astronomy; Neutrino telescopeAstronomy and AstrophysicsCosmic rayAstrophysicsAstrophysicsNeutrino telescopeIceCubeNeutrino astronomyHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNeutrinoNeutrino astronomyGamma-ray burst
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