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Cosmic ray detection with the LOFAR radio telescope

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-10-11 v1

Abstract

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has successfully measured cosmic rays for over a decade now. With its dense core of antenna fields in the Netherlands, it is an ideal tool for studying the radio emission from extensive air showers in the 101610^{16} eV to 1018.510^{18.5} eV range. Every air shower is measured with a small particle detector array and hundreds of antennas, which sets LOFAR apart from other air shower arrays. We present our current achievements and progress in reconstruction, interpolation, and software development during the final phases of measurement of LOFAR 1.0, before the LOFAR array gets a significant upgrade, including also plans for the final data release and refined analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2410.07681,
  title  = {Cosmic ray detection with the LOFAR radio telescope},
  author = {K. Terveer and S. Bouma and S. Buitink and A. Corstanje and M. Desmet and H. Falcke and B. M. Hare and J. R. Hörandel and T. Huege and N. Karastathis and P. Laub and K. Mulrey and A. Nelles and O. Scholten and P. Turekova and S. Thoudam and G. Trinh and S. ter Veen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07681},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Proceedings of the 10th ARENA Workshop 2024