Supernova Detection in IceCube: Status and Future

Understand

The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, is discussed as a detector for core collapse supernovae.

• The large flux of $\bar{\nu}_{e}$ from a Galactic supernova gives rise to Cherenkov light from positrons and electrons created in neutrino interactions which increase the overall count rate of the photomultipliers significantly.
• We will give an overview of the standard, count rate based, method for supernova detection and present the development of a novel technique.
• This technique uses coincident hits to extract additional information such as the average energy and spectral features.