A review of snow and ice albedo and the development of a new physically based broadband albedo parameterization

AS Gardner, MJ Sharp - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We present a computationally simple, theoretically based parameterization for the
broadband albedo of snow and ice that can accurately reproduce the theoretical broadband …

Optical properties of ice and snow

SG Warren - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The interactions of electromagnetic radiation with ice, and with ice-containing media such as
snow and clouds, are determined by the refractive index and absorption coefficient (the …

Observation and Characterization of a Cosmic Muon Neutrino Flux from the Northern Hemisphere using six years of IceCube data

MG Aartsen, K Abraham, M Ackermann… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos as cosmic messengers has been an
important goal of astroparticle physics. Being stable, electrically neutral particles, high …

Optical constants of ice from the ultraviolet to the microwave: A revised compilation

SG Warren, RE Brandt - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A compilation of the spectral absorption coefficient of ice Ih is presented for temperatures
near the melting point, superseding the compilation of Warren (1984). Significant changes …

Energy reconstruction methods in the IceCube neutrino telescope

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, M Ackermann… - Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The IceCube neutrino observatory [1, 2] is a cubic kilometer photomultiplier (PMT) array
embedded in glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The complete array is made of 5160 …

Search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the 79-string IceCube detector

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, Y Abdou, M Ackermann… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We have performed a search for muon neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the center
of the Sun with the 79-string configuration of the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first …

Characterization of the astrophysical diffuse neutrino flux using starting track events in IceCube

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, SK Agarwalla… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
A measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino spectrum is presented using IceCube
data collected from 2011–2022 (10.3 years). We developed novel detection techniques to …

The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, M Ackermann… - Astroparticle …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Measurement of South Pole ice transparency with the IceCube LED calibration system

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, Y Abdou, M Ackermann… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, approximately 1km3 in size, is now complete with 86
strings deployed in the Antarctic ice. IceCube detects the Cherenkov radiation emitted by …

The IceCube data acquisition system: Signal capture, digitization, and timestamping

R Abbasi, M Ackermann, J Adams, M Ahlers… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2009 - Elsevier
IceCube is a km-scale neutrino observatory under construction at the South Pole with
sensors both in the deep ice (InIce) and on the surface (IceTop). The sensors, called Digital …