Brief communication: Precision measurement of the index of refraction of deep glacial ice at radio frequencies at Summit Station, Greenland

Welling, Christoph; The RNO-G Collaboration,

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3433-2024

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3433-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3433-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

Brief communication

|

30 Jul 2024

Brief communication |

| 30 Jul 2024

Brief communication: Precision measurement of the index of refraction of deep glacial ice at radio frequencies at Summit Station, Greenland

Christoph Welling and The RNO-G Collaboration

Data sets

Code for ``Precision measurement of the index of refraction of deep glacial ice at radio frequencies at Summit Station, Greenland'' C. Welling https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12734887

Model code and software

Code for ``Precision measurement of the index of refraction of deep glacial ice at radio frequencies at Summit Station, Greenland'' C. Welling https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12734887

Short summary

We report on the measurement of the index of refraction in glacial ice at radio frequencies. We show that radio echoes from within the ice can be associated with specific features of the ice conductivity and use this to determine the wave velocity. This measurement is especially relevant for the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G), a neutrino detection experiment currently under construction at Summit Station, Greenland.