The Lidar System of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Abstract
The Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Argentina, is designed to study the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays with energies above 10^18 eV. The energy calibration of the detector is based on a system of four air fluorescence detectors. To obtain reliable calorimetric information from the fluorescence stations, the atmospheric conditions at the experiment's site need to be monitored continuously during operation. One of the components of the observatory's atmospheric monitoring system is a set of four elastic backscatter lidar stations, one station at each of the fluorescence detector sites. This paper describes the design, current status, standard operation procedure, and performance of the lidar system of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609063,
title = {The Lidar System of the Pierre Auger Observatory},
author = {S. Y. BenZvi and R. Cester and M. Chiosso and B. M. Connolly and A. Filipcic and B. Garcia and A. Grillo and F. Guarino and M. Horvat and M. Iarlori and C. Macolino and J. A. J. Matthews and D. Melo and R. Mussa and M. Mostafa and J. Pallota and S. Petrera and M. Prouza and V. Rizi and M. Roberts and J. R. Rodriguez Rojo and F. Salamida and M. Santander and G. Sequeiros and A. Tonachini and L. Valore and D. Veberic and S. Westerhoff and D. Zavrtanik and M. Zavrtanik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609063},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
29 pages, 14 figures (6 color); minor changes, matches version accepted for publication in Nucl. Instr. Meth. A