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The detection of extensive air showers using radio antennas has evolved into a mature technique, complementing particle detector arrays by providing sensitivity to the longitudinal development of the showers and enabling an independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Stef Verpoest , Carmen Merx , Benjamin Flaggs

Self-triggered radio detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos offers a scalable and cost-effective approach for next-generation astroparticle observatories, but remains challenging under realistic radio-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Pengfei Zhang , Xin Xu , Hanrui Wang , Xing Xu , Bohao Duan , Feng Wei , Hongwei Pan , Xishui Tian , Yi Zhang , Pengxiong Ma , Olivier Martineau-Huynh

The next-generation neutrino telescope IceCube-Gen2 is planned to include a surface detector array consisting of scintillation detectors and radio antennas for the detection of cosmic-ray air showers. Prototype stations, each comprising 8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 Stef Verpoest

The Pierre Auger Observatory has been collecting data in a stable manner since January 2004. We present here a study of the cosmic ray composition using events recorded in hybrid mode during the first years of data taking. These are air…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Michael Unger

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It consists of a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level and a fluorescence detector to measure the development of air showers in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector designed to observe and study ultra-high-energy particles of extraterrestrial origin. With its 27 fluorescence telescopes and over 1600 autonomously operating water-Cherenkov detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Paul Filip

The Pierre Auger Observatory concluded its first phase of data taking after seventeen years of operation. The dataset collected by its surface and fluorescence detectors (FD and SD) provides us with the most precise estimates of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-06 Vladimír Novotný

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are studied with giant ground-based detector systems recording extensive air showers, induced by cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere. Research at the Pierre Auger Observatory - the largest of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Jaroslaw Stasielak

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector for observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) (above the energy of $10^{17}$ eV). It consists of a Fluorescence Detector (FD) and an array of particle detectors known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-20 Dariusz Góra

With the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we have observed the radio emission from 561 extensive air showers with zenith angles between 60$^\circ$ and 84$^\circ$. In contrast to air showers with more…

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In this paper, I present a review of the main results obtained in the last 10 years in the field of radio-detection of cosmic-ray air showers in the MHz range. All results from all experiments cannot be reported here so that I will focus on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Benoît Revenu

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest facility in the world to study ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. It has a hybrid detection technique that combines the observation of the longitudinal development of extensive air showers and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-28 B. Andrada

Radio spectroscopy provides a unique inspection perspective for solar and space weather research, which can reveal the plasma and energetic electron information in the solar corona and inner heliosphere. However, Radio-Frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Peijin Zhang , André R. Offringa , Pietro Zucca , Kamen Kozarev , Mattia Mancini

The Pierre Auger Observatory detects the highest energy cosmic rays. Calorimetric measurements of extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays are performed with a fluorescence detector. Thus, one of the main challenges is the atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Louedec

Extensive air showers still are our only access to the highest-energy particles in the universe, namely cosmic-ray nuclei with energies up to several 100 EeV. Studying open questions in cosmic-ray physics, like their yet unknown origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-21 Frank G. Schröder

Over the last years, radio detection has matured to become a competitive method for the detection of air showers. Arrays of thousands of antennas are now envisioned for the detection of cosmic rays of ultra high energy or neutrinos of…

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest air-shower detector in the world, offering unparalleled exposure to photons with energies above $5 \times 10^{16}$ eV. Since the start of data collection almost two decades ago, numerous searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Pierpaolo Savina

The Pierre Auger Observatory has recently undergone a major upgrade, called AugerPrime, tailored to answer the current most pressing questions in the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection. The AugerPrime upgrade consists of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Martina Boháčová

The air fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is designed to perform calorimetric measurements of extensive air showers created by cosmic rays of above 10^18 eV. To correct these measurements for the effects introduced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the largest observatory of high-energy cosmic rays. It is located in Argentina and has been taking data since January 2004. Extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays are measured by the hybrid detector,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Smida