Caption: The first map of the high-energy neutrino sky, produced with data from the AMANDA II Telescope at the South Pole provides a tantalizing glimpse of many potential point sources of the ghostlike cosmic neutrino. The preliminary map, unveiled July 15, 2003 at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Sydney, Australia, represents an analysis of one year of data from the telescope and may encompass the first evidence of a cosmic accelerator — bizarre, highly energetic phenomena such as crashing black holes — but proof will require analysis of at least two more years of data.
Photo by: courtesy AMANDA Project
Date: July 2003
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Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Caption: Scientists with the National Science Foundation-funded AMANDA Telescope project work at this South Pole research station. Their neutrino detectors are sunk more than one-and-a-half kilometers beneath the ice.
Photo by: Robert Morse
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Caption: Scientists with the National Science Foundation-funded AMANDA Telescope project drill deep holes such as this one in the South Pole ice, where they have deployed an array of neutrino detectors. Sunk more than one-and-a-half kilometers beneath the ice, the AMANDA Telescope array is designed to look down through the Earth to the sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
Photo by: Robert Morse
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Caption: One of the crew at the South Pole station prepares to deploy an optical module used to detect neutrinos. The AMANDA telescope array consists of 677 optical modules, each the size of a basketball, arrayed on electrical cables set deep in the ice beneath the South Pole. The glass modules at the heart of AMANDA work like light bulbs in reverse, capturing the faint and fleeting streaks of light created when the occasional neutrino crashes head on into another particle such as a proton.
Photo by: Robert Morse
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Caption: The photomultiplier tubes within these basketball-sized glass orbs are at the heart of the AMANDA neutrino telescope, a novel telescope being built at the South Pole to detect cosmic neutrinos.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: March 1999
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Caption: Physicist Francis Halzen holding the business end of a photomultiplier tube similar to the ones being used in the AMANDA neutrino telescope.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: March 1999
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Caption: Bob Morse, physics.
Photo by: Jeff Miller
Date: March 2001
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Caption: Construction of a 33-foot long hose reel and sledge continues in the UW-Madison Physical Sciences Laboratory in Stoughton, WI, as instrument maker Bart Dana removes a level winder arm which will help coil 1.8 miles of hot water hose evenly around the spindle. The reel, part of a drilling rig for the IceCube neutrino telescope project, will be deployed to Antarctica in the summer of 2003, where hot water will be used to drill through ice. A giant sledge runner sits in the foreground at left.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart
Date: December 2002
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