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Radio Cherenkov radiation is arguably the most efficient mechanism for detecting showers from ultra-high energy particles of 1 PeV and above. Showers occuring in Antarctic ice should be detectable at distances up to 1 km. We report on…

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital radio array operating in the frequency band of 30-80 MHz and detecting radio emission from air-showers produced by cosmic rays with energies above 100 PeV. The experiment is installed at…

The composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is still poorly known and constitutes a very important topic in the field of high-energy astrophysics. Detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is carried out via the extensive air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-23 F. Gaté , B. Revenu , D. García-Fernández , V. Marin , R. Dallier , A. Escudié , L. Martin

The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has successfully measured cosmic rays for over a decade now. With its dense core of antenna fields in the Netherlands, it is an ideal tool for studying the radio emission from extensive air showers in the…

The surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, measures cosmic rays in the PeV-EeV primary energy range. Stations comprising radio antennas and scintillation detectors will be added to enhance the existing surface detectors.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Megha Venugopal

Nuclear physics experiments are always in need of more and more advanced detection systems. During the last years relevant technological developments have come out with many improvements in terms of performance and compactness of detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-26 Paolo Finocchiaro

AERA, the Auger Engineering Radio Array, located at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malarg\"ue, Argentina measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range and is optimized for the detection of air…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Olga Kambeitz

An international conference Radio Stars in the Era of New Observatories was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory on 2024 April 17-19. The conference brought together more than 60 researchers from around the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Lynn D. Matthews

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the well-established particle detector and air fluorescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

Reflection of radio waves off the short-lived plasma produced by the high-energy shower particles in the air is simulated, considering various radar setups and shower geometries. We show that the plasma produced by air showers has to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. Stasielak , R. Engel , S. Baur , P. Neunteufel , R. Šmída , F. Werner , H. Wilczyński

The Tunka-Rex experiment (Tunka Radio Extension) has been deployed in 2012 at the Tunka Valley (Republic of Buryatia, Russia). Its purpose is to investigate methods for the energy spectrum and the mass composition of high-energy cosmic rays…

The ultra--high energy cosmic rays recently detected by several air shower experiments could have an extragalactic origin. In this case, the nearest active galaxy Centaurus A might be the source of the most energetic particles ever detected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-23 G. E. Romero , J. A. Combi , S. E. Perez Bergliaffa , L. A. Anchordoqui

We show that at wavelengths comparable to the length of the shower produced by an Ultra-High Energy cosmic ray or neutrino, radio signals are an extremely efficient way to detect these particles. Through an example it is shown that this new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-25 O. Scholten , J. Bacelar , R. Braun , A. G. de Bruyn , H. Falcke , B. Stappers , R. G. Strom

An integrated approach has been developed to study radio signals induced by cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere. An engineering array will be co-located with the infill array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Our R&D effort includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 A. M. van den Berg

This chapter provides an overview of the techniques of radio astronomy. This study began in 1931 with Jansky's discovery of emission from the cosmos, but the period of rapid progress began fifteen years later. From then to the present, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 T. L. Wilson

TREND50 is a radio detection setup of 50 self-triggered antennas working in the 50-100MHz frequency range and deployed in a radio-quiet valley of the Tianshan mountains (China). TREND50 achieved its goal: the autonomous radiodetection and…

Radio detection of cosmic-ray (CR) induced extensive air showers with digital antenna arrays is a matured technique by now. At the Pierre Auger Observatory, the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) has been measuring air-shower signals in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Max Büsken

Next-generation radio experiments such as the Radio Detector of the upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory and the planned GRAND and BEACON arrays target the detection of ultra-high-energy particle air showers arriving at low elevation angles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Simon Chiche , Chao Zhang , Felix Schlüter , Kumiko Kotera , Tim Huege , Krijn D. de Vries , Matias Tueros , Marion Guelfand

Digital radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers has emerged as an alternative technique in high-energy astroparticle physics. Estimation of the detection efficiency of cosmic-ray radio arrays is one of the few remaining challenges…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Vladimir Lenok , Frank G. Schröder

The phenomena observed at the Sun have a variety of unique radio signatures that can be used to diagnose the processes in the solar atmosphere. The insights provided by radio obervations are further enhanced when they are combined with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. P. Kontar , A. Nindos