Recent Highlights from the IceCube Observatory and Contribution from the Academia Sinica

Anatoli Fedynitch^1*

¹Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

* Presenter:Anatoli Fedynitch, email:anatoli@gate.sinica.edu.tw

The IceCube Observatory is a cubic-kilometer-scale Cherenkov detector buried deep under the Antartic ice at the geographical South Pole. It detects light emitted by relativistic particles through ~5500 digital optical modules (DOMs) arranged in groups of 86 vertical strings. The main science goal is to perform neutrino astronomy, find the elusive accelerators of cosmic rays, and study the high-energy universe in environments from where high-energy gamma rays can not reach us. In the past decade of operation, among numerous milestone results, IceCube has discovered astrophysical neutrinos and established two neutrino sources, with NGC1068 announced recently in the Science Magazine on November 4th 111. In my talk I will introduce some of the recent highlight results from IceCube and present the activities of my new group within the experiment.

Keywords: Neutrino Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics, Neutrinos