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Determining the orientation of radio antennas at the South Pole using Galactic noise measurements
Paras Koundal, Valeria Torres-Gomez, M. Ackermann, Jenni Adams, Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Juanan Aguilar, M. Ahlers, Jean-Marco Alameddine, Shoukat Ali, Najia Moureen Binte Amin, K. Andeen, C. Argüelles, Yosuke Ashida, Sofia Athanasiadou, Spencer Axani, Rishi Babu, X. Bai, Joe Baines-Holmes, Aswathi Balagopal V., Steven W. Barwick, Simeon Bash, Vedant Basu, Ryan Bay, J. J. Beatty, J. Becker Tjus, Jakob Beise, Chiara Bellenghi, Bruno Benkel, S. BenZvi, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Besson, E. Blaufuss, Lucas Bloom, Summer Blot, Ilya Bodo, Federico Bontempo, Caterina Boscolo Meneguolo, Sebastian BOSER, O. Botner, J. Böttcher, Jim Braun, Bennett Brinson, Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis, Ryan T. Burley, Delaney Butterfield, Michael Campana, Kiara Carloni, Jose Carpio, Sharmistha Chattopadhyay, Thien Nhan Chau, Zheyang Chen, D. Chirkin, Seowon Choi, Brian Clark, Alan Coleman, Peter John Cusack Coleman, Gabriel Collin, Diego Alberto Coloma Borja, A. Connolly, J. M. Conrad, Rebecca Corley, D. F. Cowen, C. De Clercq, James DeLaunay, Diyaselis Delgado, Thomas Delmeulle, Shuyang Deng, P. Desiati, K. D. de Vries, G. de Wasseige, T. DeYoung, J. C. Díaz–Vélez, Stephen DiKerby, Markus Dittmer, Alba Domi, Lincoln Draper, Lasse Dueser, Daniel Durnford, Kaustav Dutta, M. A. DuVernois, Thomas Ehrhardt, Leonhard Eidenschink, Anna Eimer, P. Eller, Enrico Ellinger, Dominik Elsässer, Ralph Engel, Hannah Erpenbeck, Waleed Esmail, Steven Eulig, John Evans, P. A. Evenson, Kwok Lung Fan, Kareem Ramadan Farrag, A. R. Fazely, Anatoli Fedynitch, Nora Feigl, C. Finley, Leander Fischer, D. B. Fox, A. Franckowiak, Satoshi Fukami, Philipp Fürst, J. S. Gallagher, Erik Ganster, Alfonso Garcia, Gaurav Garg, Eliot Genton, L. Gerhardt, Christian Gläser, T. Glüsenkamp, Javier Gonzalez, Sreetama Goswami, Alejandra Granados, Darren Grant, Shannon Gray, Sean Griffin, Spencer Griswold, Kathrine Mørch Groth, David Joseph Guevel, Christoph Günther, Pascal Gutjahr, C. Ha, Christian Haack, A. Hallgren, L. Halve, F. Halzen, Leon Hamacher, Martin Ha Minh, Michael Handt, K. Hanson, John Hardin, Alexander Harnisch, Patrick Hatch, A. Haungs, Jonas Häußler, K. Helbing, Jonas Hellrung, Brandon Henke, Lukas Hennig, Felix Henningsen, Lars Philipp Heuermann, R. A. Hewett, Nils Heyer, Stephanie Hickford, Attila Hidvégi, Colton Hill, G. C. Hill, Ramy Hmaid, Kara Hoffman, Dan Hooper, Sam Hori, Kotoyo Hoshina, Matheus Hostert, Wenjie Hou, Thomas Huber, K. Hultqvist, Karolin Hymon, A. Ishihara, W. Iwakiri, Marc Jacquart, Samyak Jain, Oliver Janik, Matti Jansson, Minjin Jeong, Miaochen Jin, Nicholas Kamp, Donghwa Kang, Woosik Kang, Xinyue Kang, A. Kappes, Leonora Kardum, T. Karg, Martina Karl, A. Karle, Akanksha Katil, M. Kauer, J. L. Kelley, Manish Khanal, Arifa Khatee Zathul, Ali Kheirandish, Hani KimKu, J. Kiryluk, Carolin Klein, Yukiho Kobayashi, Alina Kochocki, Ramesh Koirala, H. Kolanoski, Tomas Kontrimas, L. Köpke, Claudio Kopper, D. J. Koskinen, M. Kowalski, Tetiana Kozynets, Krishnamoorthi Jayakumar, Tanvi Krishnan, Karlijn Kruiswijk, Emmett Krupczak, Anil Kumar, Emma Kun, N. Kurahashi, Neha Navnitkumar Lad, Cristina Lagunas Gualda, M. Lamoureux, M. J. Larson, Frederik Hermann Lauber, Jeffrey Lazar, Kayla Leonard DeHolton, Agnieszka Leszczyńska, Jiyuan Liao, Yitong Liu, Maria Liubarska, Christy Love, Lu Lü, Francesco Lucarelli, William Luszczak, Yang Lyu, Jim Madsen, Else Magnus, Kendall Mahn, Yuya Makino, Elena Manao, Sarah Mancina, Alicia Mand, Ioana Codrina Mariş, Szabolcs Márka, Z. Márka, L. Marten, Ivan Martínez-Soler, R. Maruyama, Jonathan Mauro, Finn Mayhew, Frank McNally, J. V. Mead, K. Meagher, Sarah Mechbal, Andrés Medina, Maximilian Meier, Yarno Merckx, Lukas Merten, Justin Mitchell, Logan Molchany, T. Montaruli, R. W. Moore, Yasutsugu Morii, Anke Mosbrugger, Marjon Moulai, Despina Mousadi, Emile Moyaux, Tista Mukherjee, Richard Naab, Maxwell Nakos, Uwe Naumann, Jannis Necker, Ludwig Neste, Miriam Neumann, Hans Niederhausen, M. U. Nisa, K. Noda, Andreas Noell, Alexander S. Novikov, A. Obertacke Pollmann, Vivian O'Dell, Alex Olivas, Jesse Osborn, Erin O’Sullivan, Veronika Palušová, Hershal Pandya, A. Parenti, Nahee Park, V. A. Parrish, Ek Narayan Paudel, Larissa Paul, C. Pérez de los Heros, Teresa Pernice, Josh Peterson, M. Plum, Axel Ponten, Vaidehi Poojyam, Yuriy Popovych, Maria Prado Rodriguez, Brandon Pries, Rachel Procter-Murphy, G. T. Przybylski, Lilly Pyras, Christoph Raab, John Rack-Helleis, N. Rad, Martin Langgård Ravn, Katherine Rawlins, Zoë Rechav, Abdul Rehman, Ian Reistroffer, E. Resconi, Simeon Reusch, Chang Dong Rho, W. Rhode, Leonardo Ricca, Benedikt Riedel, Adam Rifaie, Ella Roberts, Sally Robertson, Martin Rongen, Aske Rosted, C. Rott, T. Ruhe, Li Ruohan, D. Ryckbosch, Julian Saffer, Daniel Salazar-Gallegos, Pranav Sampathkumar, Alexander Sandrock, Grace Sanger-Johnson, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, Joelle Savelberg, Marco Scarnera, Patrick Schaile, Merlin Schaufel, H. Schieler, Sebastian Schindler, Lea Schlickmann, Berit Schlüter, Felix Schlüter, Nick Schmeisser, Torsten Schmidt, Frank Schröder, L. Schumacher, Sonke Schwirn, S. Sclafani, D. Seckel, Leo Seen, Mohammad Ful Hossain Seikh, S. Seunarine, Per Arne Sevle Myhr, Riya Shah, Shefali Shefali, Nobuhiro Shimizu, Barbara Skrzypek, Robert Snihur, Jan Soedingrekso, A. Søgaard, Dennis Soldin, Philipp Soldin, Giacomo Sommani, Christian Spannfellner, G. M. Spiczak, Christian Spiering, Juliana Stachurska, M. Stamatikos, Todor Stanev, T. Stezelberger, Timo Stürwald, Thomas Stuttard, G. W. Sullivan, I. Taboada, S. Ter–Antonyan, Andrii Terliuk, Amar Thakuri, Matthias Thiesmeyer, Will Thompson, Jessie Thwaites, Serap Tilav, Kirsten Tollefson, S. 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Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicRadio Astronomy Observations and Technology
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersOffice of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive ResearchMarsden FundJapan Society for the Promotion of ScienceDeutsches Elektronen-SynchrotronNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOffice of Polar ProgramsCollege of Engineering, Michigan State UniversityChiba UniversityAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaHelmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle PhysicsInstitute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba UniversityRWTH Aachen UniversityKnut och Alice Wallenbergs StiftelseVillum FondenNational Research Foundation of KoreaSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungNational Science FoundationBelgian Federal Science Policy OfficeDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftMichigan State UniversityNational Research FoundationUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonVetenskapsrådetU.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Advanced CyberinfrastructureEuropean CommissionWestern Canada Research GridFonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRSPolarforskningssekretariatetFonds Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekNvidiaMarquette University
KeywordsOrientation (vector space)Noise (video)ObservatoryScintillationPosition (finance)Rotation (mathematics)Antenna (radio)Atmospheric noise
Abstract
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-messenger observatory at the South Pole. As preparation for an enhancement of its surface array, IceTop, a prototype station consisting of elevated scintillation panels and radio antennas has been installed and is operating since 2020. The radio antennas detect emissions from cosmic-ray-induced air showers, and their precise orientation is essential for an accurate reconstruction of the air-shower properties. This work presents a novel method to determine the orientation by analyzing periodic variations of the Galactic background noise recorded by the antennas. In particular, we examine noise level variations correlated with the Earth's rotation and the apparent position of the Galactic Center. The method can provide a potential alternative or augment GPS-based measurements of the alignment of radio antennas at the South Pole.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.084
Threshold uncertainty score0.208
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Published2025
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