Look who’s at the South Pole. Okay, we can’t see their faces in this image, but we trust that those are IceCube’s winterovers. […]
Week 32 at the Pole
IceCube-Gen2 will open a new window on the universe
In a white paper recently submitted to the Journal of Physics G, the international IceCube-Gen2 Collaboration outlines the need for and design of a next-generation extension of IceCube. By adding new optical and radio instruments to the existing detector, IceCube-Gen2 will increase the annual rate of cosmic neutrino observations by an order of magnitude, and its sensitivity to point sources will increase to five times that of IceCube. […]
Week 31 at the Pole
The sky was the center of attention at the Pole last week—and for a number of reasons. Sure, there were auroras, stunning as always. But there was also a moon bright enough to be confused with a sunset. […]
Week 30 at the Pole
Last week was the first time this year that temperatures dipped to -100 °F, what one winterover deemed “properly cold.” The moon was out, though, so they didn’t let the extreme cold stop them from enjoying the clear skies for outdoor photography. […]
Outreach from the South Pole
Since their arrival at the South Pole last November, John and Yuya have reached hundreds of people around the world through virtual talks and presentations. […]
Week 29 at the Pole
Another quiet week at the Pole. But there is a bit more “camera” commotion now as the darkest part of the (long) polar night is coming to an end. […]
Week 28 at the Pole
It was a quiet week at the Pole. And just as well…some folks appreciated some time to recover from the Polympics. But the sky was not quiet. […]
IceCube’s Upward Bound class goes virtual
Last week, 52 high school students in Minnesota finished a two-week course taught by IceCube-trained educators. The class was organized by Upward Bound, a federally funded program that provides precollege opportunities for high school students from low-income families whose parents didn’t attend college. […]
Week 27 at the Pole
Here we see IceCube winterover John removing the cover from the IceAct field telescope, while the sky is still grabbing its deserved attention. […]
Searching for neutrino emission from 11 LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave sources
While we have seen neutrinos and electromagnetic radiation with a common origin, researchers have yet to detect neutrinos and gravitational waves coming from the same place. So the IceCube Collaboration recently performed an analysis to look for neutrino emission that correlates with gravitational waves detected by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations during their first two observing runs, O1 and O2. Their results are described in a paper published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. No coincidence was found, but the researchers are already at work on further analyses. […]