icecube in A Sentence

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    Then, last September, Icecube got lucky.

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    Icecube construction is currently 50% complete.

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    If the Icecube team is right, blazars could be the first confirmed source of these cosmic rays.

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    As they decelerate, they emit light called Cherenkov radiation, which some of Icecube's 5160 light detectors may pick up.

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    Icecube researchers also went back through almost a decade of data to see whether an excess of high-energy neutrinos had streamed from the same location before.

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    In 2013, the Icecube team first revealed a handful of such events, arguing that their high energies and other properties showed they must have come from outside of our galaxy.

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    Six days later, the Fermi team reported the satellite had found that a blazar, known as TXS 0506+056 and just 0.1° away from the neutrino track suggested by Icecube, was especially bright, having started flaring a few months earlier.

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    Sokolsky and Waxman agree that Icecube's September 2017 detection should strengthen the project's longstanding bid to massively increase the size of the instrument, which would also increase how many neutrinos it can detect and improve its pointing accuracy.

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