Phone: (773) 834-2988
Location: ERC 429
Email: aviereggkicp.uchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

Prof. Vieregg builds radio and millimeter wave experiments and uses them for neutrino astrophysics and cosmology with the cosmic microwave background. She currently leads hardware development and analysis efforts on ARA and ANITA, which use the Antarctic ice as a target for the highest energy cosmic neutrinos. Vieregg is the PI of PUEO and RNO-G, next-generation balloon-borne and ground-based radio detectors for ultra-high energy neutrinos. She is also involved in CMB-S4, a future ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, serving as the technical coordinator and on the executive team. Although Prof. Vieregg has won many research-related awards, the award she is most proud of is a “spherical cow award,” presented by the UChicago physics graduate students, for Best Teaching and Mentoring.

Outside of physics, she is an avid sailor and enjoys spending time with her two children, Lydia and James.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• BICEP2/The Keck Array/BICEP3
• Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)

Past Scientific Projects: Greenland Neutrino Observatory (GNO)

Past Students

GRADUATE: Rhys Povey (2015)

UNDERGRADUATE: MaCheaux Ransom (2020), Jonathan Kyl (2016), Jessica Avva (2015)

2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014


Latest Journal Publications

1. "Microwave multiplexing on the Keck Array", arXiv:1909.01305 (Sep 2019)
2. "CMB-S4", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, APC white papers, no. 209; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 7, id. 209 (2019) (Sep 2019)
3. "The Next-Generation Radio Neutrino Observatory — Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics at Extreme Energies", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, APC white papers, no. 218; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 7, id. 218 (2019) (Sep 2019)
4. "Expanding the Reach of Tau Neutrino Telescopes with the Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos (BEACON)", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, APC white papers, no. 191; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 7, id. 191 (2019) (Sep 2019)
5. "NuRadioMC: Monte Carlo simulation package for radio neutrino detectors", Astrophysics Source Code Library, record ascl:1908.011 (Aug 2019)
6. "Superheavy dark matter and ANITA's anomalous events", Physical Review D, Volume 100, Issue 4, id.043019 (Aug 2019)
7. "The simulation of the sensitivity of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) to Askaryan radiation from cosmogenic neutrinos interacting in the Antarctic Ice", Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 14, Issue 08, pp. P08011 (2019) (Aug 2019)
8. "Long-baseline horizontal radio-frequency transmission through polar ice", arXiv:1908.10689 (Aug 2019)
9. "CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan", arXiv:1907.04473 (Jul 2019)
10. "Recent Results from The Askaryan Radio Array", arXiv:1907.11125 (Jul 2019)
11. "The Next-Generation Radio Neutrino Observatory -- Multi-Messenger Neutrino Astrophysics at Extreme Energies", arXiv:1907.12526 (Jul 2019)
12. "CMB-S4 Decadal Survey APC White Paper", arXiv:1908.01062 (Jul 2019)
13. "Design and performance of an interferometric trigger array for radio detection of high-energy neutrinos", Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A, Volume 930, p. 112-125 (Jun 2019)
14. "Constraints on the ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrino flux from the fourth flight of ANITA", Physical Review D, Volume 99, Issue 12, id.122001 (Jun 2019)
15. "NuRadioMC: Simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector", arXiv:1906.01670 (Jun 2019)
16. "Messengers from the Early Universe: Cosmic Neutrinos and Other Light Relics", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 159; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 159 (2019) (May 2019)
17. "The Future Landscape of High-Redshift Galaxy Cluster Science", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 279; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 279 (2019) (May 2019)
18. "Fundamental Physics with High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 215; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 215 (2019) (May 2019)
19. "Astrophysics Uniquely Enabled by Observations of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 185; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 185 (2019) (May 2019)
20. "BICEP2 / Keck Array XI: Beam Characterization and Temperature-to-Polarization Leakage in the BK15 Dataset", arXiv:1904.01640 (Apr 2019)

Latest Conference Proceedings

1. "Concept Study for the Beamforming Elevated Array for Cosmic Neutrinos (BEACON)", 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), held July 24th-August 1st, 2019 in Madison, WI, U.S.A. Online at https://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=358, id.1033 (Jul 2019)
2. "Towards Interferometric Triggering on Air Showers Induced by Tau Neutrino Interactions", 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), held July 24th-August 1st, 2019 in Madison, WI, U.S.A. Online at https://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=358, id.917 (Jul 2019)
3. "NuRadioMC - Simulation Code for the Next Generation of Radio Neutrino Detectors", 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), held July 24th-August 1st, 2019 in Madison, WI, U.S.A. Online at https://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=358, id.896 (Jul 2019)
4. "Design and performance of wide-band corrugated walls for the BICEP Array detector modules at 30/40 GHz", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107082G 12 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
5. "Ultra-thin large-aperture vacuum windows for millimeter wavelengths receivers", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107082K 14 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
6. "BICEP Array cryostat and mount design", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107082D 10 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
7. "BICEP Array: a multi-frequency degree-scale CMB polarimeter", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 1070807 15 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
8. "2017 upgrade and performance of BICEP3: a 95GHz refracting telescope for degree-scale CMB polarization", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107082N 11 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
9. "High-precision scanning water vapor radiometers for cosmic microwave background site characterization and comparison", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10708, id. 107082E 10 pp. (2018) (Jul 2018)
10. "Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array", American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #232, id. 310.02 (Jun 2018)

Past Visitors:

1. Danielle Norcini, Yale University (2019)
2. Justin Vandenbroucke, University of Wisconsin (2019)
3. Colin Bischoff, University of Cincinnati (2018)
4. Daniel Grin, Haverford College (2018)
5. Stephanie Wissel, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (2016)
6. John Kovac, Harvard University (2015)
7. David Saltzberg, University of California, Los Angeles (2015)
8. Donglian Xu, University of Alabama (2015)
9. Colin Bischoff, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2014)
10. David Saltzberg, UCLA (2014)
11. Stephanie Wissel, University of California, Los Angeles (2014)