The Pierre Auger Observatory: status, results and perspective
Abstract
While the completion of the Pierre Auger Observatory (or simply ``Auger'') is still underway, the 5165 km^2.sr.yr integrated acceptance accumulated since the January 1st, 2004 is now significantly larger than what was gathered by the previous experiments dedicated to the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We report on the development status of Auger and present some results related to the cosmic-ray energy spectrum, composition and anisotropies, and the photon fraction at ultra-high energy. We briefly discuss the importance of the ankle region to understand the overall phenomenology of cosmic-rays, and mention future enhancements of Auger focusing on this energy range.
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@article{arxiv.0709.2500,
title = {The Pierre Auger Observatory: status, results and perspective},
author = {E. Parizot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2500},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, 10 figures, Invited talk at the International Symposium on Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Extreme Universe, March 22-23, 2007, RIKEN, Tokyo (Japan)