The Central Laser Facility at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Astrophysics
2015-04-02 v1
Abstract
The Central Laser Facility is located near the middle of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina. It features a UV laser and optics that direct a beam of calibrated pulsed light into the sky. Light scattered from this beam produces tracks in the Auger optical detectors which normally record nitrogen fluorescence tracks from cosmic ray air showers. The Central Laser Facility provides a "test beam" to investigate properties of the atmosphere and the fluorescence detectors. The laser can send light via optical fiber simultaneously to the nearest surface detector tank for hybrid timing analyses. We describe the facility and show some examples of its many uses.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507334,
title = {The Central Laser Facility at the Pierre Auger Observatory},
author = {F. Arqueros and J. Bellido and C. Covault and D. D'Urso and C. Di Giulio and P. Facal and B. Fick and F. Guarino and M. Malek and J. A. J. Matthews and J. Matthews and R. Meyhandan and M. Monasor and M. Mostafa and P. Petrinca and M. Roberts and P. Sommers and P. Travnicek and L. Valore and V. Verzi and L. Wiencke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507334},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to 29th ICRC Pune India