• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Observation of the Cosmic-Ray Shadow of the Moon and Sun with IceCube
  • Contributor: Bos, F.; Tenholt, F.; Becker Tjus, J.; Westerhoff, S.
  • imprint: Copernicus GmbH, 2015
  • Published in: ASTRA Proceedings
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.5194/ap-2-5-2015
  • ISSN: 2199-3963
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  • Description: <jats:p>Abstract. Moon shadow analyses are standard methods to calibrate cosmic-ray detectors. We report on a three-year observation of cosmic-ray Moon and Sun shadows in different detector configurations. The cosmic-ray Moon shadow was observed with high statistical significance (&gt; 6σ) in previous analyses when the IceCube detector operated in a smaller configuration before it was completed in December 2010. This work shows first analyses of the cosmic-ray Sun shadow in IceCube. A binned analysis in one-dimension is used to measure the Moon and Sun shadow with high statistical significance greater than 12σ. </jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access