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Data Acquisition, Triggering, and Filtering at the Auger Engineering Radio Array

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-08-13 v1

Abstract

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is currently detecting cosmic rays of energies at and above 10^17 eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory, by triggering on the radio emission produced in the associated air showers. The radio-detection technique must cope with a significant background of man-made radio-frequency interference, but can provide information on shower development with a high duty cycle. We discuss our techniques to handle the challenges of self-triggered radio detection in a low-power autonomous array, including triggering and filtering algorithms, data acquisition design, and communication systems.

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@article{arxiv.1205.2104,
  title  = {Data Acquisition, Triggering, and Filtering at the Auger Engineering Radio Array},
  author = {J. L. Kelley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.2104},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Contribution to VLVnT 2011, to be published in NIM A, 4 pages, 6 figures

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