Concept study for observing galactic neutrinos in Neptune’s atmosphere
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I discuss the feasibility of a conceptual space-based neutrino detector that utilizes
the Ice Giants as targets for galactic neutrinos. The purpose of this research stems from
the concept of wanting to find a new method of observing the Galactic Core (GC) of the
Milky way and the Supermassive black hole, Sag A*. Observations of the GC have been
made in every accessible wavelength except for the regions of space that are too dense for
photons to probe. In these regions, we may instead use neutrinos. Neutrinos from an
Active Galactic Nucleus are emitted at extreme energies, 10 GeV to EeV scales, but have
an extremely low flux measured here at earth. Neutrino telescopes such as the IceCube
Observatory have only been able to measure a handful of neutrinos that might correlate to
the GC. But using Gravitational lensing, our sun can be used as a lens which increases the
light collection power for neutrinos by a factor of