@article{3073794,
    title = "Observation in the MINOS far detector of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the sun and moon",
    author = "Adamson, P. and Andreopoulos, C. and Ayres, D.S. and Backhouse, C. and Barr, G. and Barrett, W.L. and Bishai, M. and Blake, A. and Bock, B. and Bock, G.J. and Boehnlein, D.J. and Bogert, D. and Bower, C. and Budd, S. and Cavanaugh, S. and Cherdack, D. and Childress, S. and Choudhary, B.C. and Cobb, J.H. and Coelho, J.A.B. and Coleman, S.J. and Corwin, L. and Cronin-Hennessy, D. and Danko, I.Z. and De Jong, J.K. and Devenish, N.E. and Diwan, M.V. and Dorman, M. and Escobar, C.O. and Evans, J.J. and Falk, E. and Feldman, G.J. and Frohne, M.V. and Gallagher, H.R. and Godley, A. and Gomes, R.A. and Goodman, M.C. and Gouffon, P. and Gran, R. and Grant, N. and Grashorn, E.W. and Grzelak, K. and Habig, A. and Harris, D. and Harris, P.G. and Hartnell, J. and Hatcher, R. and Himmel, A. and Holin, A. and Huang, X. and Hylen, J. and Ilic, J. and Irwin, G.M. and Isvan, Z. and Jaffe, D.E. and James, C. and Jensen, D. and Kafka, T. and Kasahara, S.M.S. and Koizumi, G. and Kopp, S. and Kordosky, M. and Krahn, Z. and Kreymer, A. and Lang, K. and Lefeuvre, G. and Ling, J. and Litchfield, P.J. and Litchfield, R.P. and Loiacono, L. and Lucas, P. and Mann, W.A. and Marshak, M.L. and Marshall, J.S. and Mayer, N. and McGowan, A.M. and Mehdiyev, R. and Meier, J.R. and Messier, M.D. and Michael, D.G. and Miller, W.H. and Mishra, S.R. and Mitchell, J. and Moore, C.D. and Mualem, L. and Mufson, S. and Musser, J. and Naples, D. and Nelson, J.K. and Newman, H.B. and Nichol, R.J. and Nicholls, T.C. and Oliver, W.P. and Orchanian, M. and Paley, J. and Patterson, R.B. and Pawloski, G. and Pearce, G.F. and Peterson, E.A. and Pittam, R. and Plunkett, R.K. and Ratchford, J. and Raufer, T.M. and Rebel, B. and Reichenbacher, J. and Rodrigues, P.A. and Rosenfeld, C. and Rubin, H.A. and Ryabov, V.A. and Sanchez, M.C. and Schneps, J. and Schreiner, P. and Semenov, V.K. and Shanahan, P. and Sousa, A. and Strait, M. and Tagg, N. and Talaga, R.L. and Thomas, J. and Thomson, M.A. and Thron, J.L. and Tinti, G. and Toner, R. and Tzanakos, G. and Urheim, J. and Vahle, P. and Viren, B. and Weber, A. and Webb, R.C. and White, C. and Whitehead, L. and Wojcicki, S.G. and Wright, D.M. and Yang, T. and Zwaska, R.",
    journal = "ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS",
    year = "2011",
    volume = "34",
    number = "6",
    pages = "457-466",
    issn = "0927-6505",
    doi = "10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.10.010",
    keywords = "Cosmic-ray muons;  Far detector;  Interplanetary magnetic fields;  Log likelihood;  Muons, Charged particles;  Cosmic rays;  Cosmology;  Detectors;  Magnetic field effects, Moon",
    abstract = "The shadowing of cosmic ray primaries by the moon and sun was observed by the MINOS far detector at a depth of 2070 mwe using 83.54 million cosmic ray muons accumulated over 1857.91 live-days. The shadow of the moon was detected at the 5.6 σ level and the shadow of the sun at the 3.8 σ level using a log-likelihood search in celestial coordinates. The moon shadow was used to quantify the absolute astrophysical pointing of the detector to be 0.17 ± 0.12°. Hints of interplanetary magnetic field effects were observed in both the sun and moon shadow. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."
}