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most citedThe IceCube Data Acquisition System: Signal Capture, Digitization, and Timestamping

416 citations · 3.6k across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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39 papers

astro-ph.HE2012★ 313 cited

An Absence of Neutrinos Associated with Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Gamma-Ray Bursts

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as a leading candidate for acceleration of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, which would be accompanied by emission of TeV neutrinos produce…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 2 cited

All-particle cosmic ray energy spectrum measured with 26 IceTop stations

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +255

We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum with the IceTop air shower array, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The data…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 31 cited

A Search for UHE Tau Neutrinos with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +252

The first dedicated search for ultra-high energy (UHE) tau neutrinos of astrophysical origin was performed using the IceCube detector in its 22-string configuration with an instrum…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 97 cited

Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of live…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 56 cited

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s.…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 2 cited

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory II: All Sky Searches: Atmospheric, Diffuse and EHE

The IceCube Collaboration

All sky neutrino searches: Atmospheric neutrinos; Astrophysical neutrinos; Cosmegenic neutrinos; Submitted papers to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing 2011.

astro-ph.HE2011★ 170 cited

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive star…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 319 cited

The Design and Performance of IceCube DeepCore

The IceCube Collaboration

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 su…

hep-ex2011★ 159 cited

Observation of an Anisotropy in the Galactic Cosmic Ray arrival direction at 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

In this paper we report the first observation in the Southern hemisphere of an energy dependence in the Galactic cosmic ray anisotropy up to a few hundred TeV. This measurement was…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 13 cited

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +257

In this paper we present the results of searches for periodic neutrino emission from a catalog of binary systems. Such modulation, observed in the photon flux, would be caused by t…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 17 cited

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

We present the results for a search of high-energy muon neutrinos with the IceCube detector in coincidence with the Crab nebula flare reported on September 2010 by various experime…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 14 cited

Design and performance of the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup

Yasser Abdou, Karl-Heinz Becker, Jens Berdermann +32

The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup (SPATS) was built to evaluate the acoustic characteristics of the South Pole ice in the 10 kHz to 100 kHz frequency range, for the purpose of ass…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 138 cited

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

Between May 2009 and May 2010, the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole recorded 32 billion muons generated in air showers produced by cosmic rays with a median energy of 20…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 110 cited

A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 47 cited

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper presents searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of ene…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 88 cited

Constraints on the Extremely-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux with the IceCube 2008-2009 Data

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

We report on a search for extremely-high energy neutrinos with energies greater than GeV using the data taken with the IceCube detector at the South Pole. The data was colle…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 18 cited

Background studies for acoustic neutrino detection at the South Pole

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

The detection of acoustic signals from ultra-high energy neutrino interactions is a promising method to measure the tiny flux of cosmogenic neutrinos expected on Earth. The energy…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 11 cited

Constraints on high-energy neutrino emission from SN 2008D

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +259

SN 2008D, a core collapse supernova at a distance of 27 Mpc, was serendipitously discovered by the Swift satellite through an associated X-ray flash. Core collapse supernovae have…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 112 cited

Search for Dark Matter from the Galactic Halo with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Self-annihilating or decaying dark matter in the Galactic halo might produce high energy neutrinos detectable with neutrino telescopes. We have conducted a search for such a signal…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 50 cited

First search for atmospheric and extraterrestrial neutrino-induced cascades with the IceCube detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +264

We report on the first search for atmospheric and for diffuse astrophysical neutrino-induced showers (cascades) in the IceCube detector using 257 days of data collected in the year…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 120 cited

Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

IceCube has become the first neutrino telescope with a sensitivity below the TeV neutrino flux predicted from gamma-ray bursts if GRBs are responsible for the observed cosmic-ray f…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 172 cited

Time-Integrated Searches for Point-like Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String IceCube Detector

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi

We present the results of time-integrated searches for astrophysical neutrino sources in both the northern and southern skies. Data were collected using the partially-completed Ice…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 105 cited

Search for a Lorentz-violating sidereal signal with atmospheric neutrinos in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for sidereal modulation in the flux of atmospheric muon neutrinos in IceCube was performed. Such a signal could be an indication of Lorentz-violating physics. Neutrino osc…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 197 cited

Measurement of the atmospheric neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 400 TeV was performed using a data sample of about 18,000 up-going atmospheric muon neutrino events i…