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Fast radio bursts remain one of the most enigmatic astrophysical sources. Observations have significantly progressed over the last few years, thanks to the capabilities of new radio telescopes and the refurbishment of existing ones. Here we…

Recent results from the KLOE experiment at the DAPHNE e+e- collider are presented. KLOE has collected about 500 pb^-1 of data in the years from 2000 to 2002. Preliminary results are obtained using wide samples of the full statistics and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The KLOE Collaboration

Ground based low frequency radio interferometers have been developed in the last decade and are providing the scientific community with high quality observations. Conversely, current radioastronomy instruments in space have a poor angular…

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a detection technique for ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere with energies far beyond LHC energies. Today's second-generation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-14 Anne Zilles , Didier Charrier , Kumiko Kotera , Sandra Le Coz , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Clementina Medina , Valentin Niess , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries

Recent cosmic microwave background data in temperature and polarization have reached high precision in estimating all the parameters that describe the current so-called standard cosmological model. Recent results about the integrated…

Detecting B-mode polarization anisotropies on large angular scales in the CMB polarization pattern is one of the major challenges in modern observational cosmology since it would give us an important evidence in favor of the inflationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Federico Incardona

Existing and planned radiotelescopes working in the millimetre (mm) and sub-millimetre wavelengths range provide the possibility to be used for atmospheric line observations. To scrutinize this potential, we outline the differences and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 Nicola Schneider , Joachim Urban , Philippe Baron

In small-scale experiments such as CODALEMA and LOPES, radio detection of cosmic rays has demonstrated its potential as a technique for cosmic ray measurements up to the highest energies. Radio detection promises measurements with high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Huege

The Pierre Auger Observatory has by now achieved an exposure of order $10^5~{\rm km}^2$ sr yr, exploring about 85% of the sky. In this talk, I will review some of the recent results, including the detailed measurements of the features in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Esteban Roulet

During February 2016, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science and the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy installed, commissioned and carried out science observations with a phased array feed (PAF) receiver system on the 64m diameter Parkes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 X. Deng , A. P. Chippendale , G. Hobbs , S. Johnston , S. Dai , D. George , M. Kramer , R. Karuppusamy , M. Malenta , L. Spitler , T. Tzioumis , G. Wieching

The Cosmic Background Radiation gives us one of the few probes into the density perturbations in the early universe that should later lead to the formation of structure we now observe. Recent advances in degree scale anisotropy measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Lubin

A prototype system for detecting radio pulses associated with extensive cosmic ray air showers is described. Sensitivity is compared with that in previous experiments, and lessons are noted for future studies.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jonathan L. Rosner , Denis A. Suprun

During summer of 1998 two large-scale complex campaigns, LITFASS98 (May 25th to June 22nd) and LACE98 (July 13th to August 14th), took place at the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg (MOL). The aim of both experiments focus on the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 V. V. Novikov , U. Leiterer , G. A. Alekseeva , V. D. Galkin , J. Güldner , T. Naebert

While the fluorescence and the ground counter techniques for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) were being developed for decades, the interest in the radio detection diminished after the initial experiments in the 1960s.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Konstantin Belov

Results from the KASCADE air shower experiment investigating the origin of cosmic rays in the energy region from 10^13 to 10^17 eV are presented. Attention is drawn on the investigation of interactions in the atmosphere and the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 J. R. Hoerandel

We present LOFAR measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers. We find that this emission is strongly polarized, with a median degree of polarization of nearly $99\%$, and that the angle between the polarization direction of…

The question of whether intelligent life exists elsewhere is one of the fundamental unknowns about our Universe. Over the past decade more than 200 extra-solar planets have been discovered, providing new urgency for addressing this question…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Abraham Loeb , Matias Zaldarriaga

Since 2002, the CODALEMA experiment located within the Nan\c{c}ay Radio Observatory studies the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (above 10^{17} eV) arriving in the Earth atmosphere. These cosmic rays interact with the component of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-08 Antony Escudie , Richard Dallier , Didier Charrier , Daniel García-Fernández , Alain Lecacheux , Lilian Martin , Benoît Revenu

As of 2023, the Square Kilometre Array will constitute the world's largest radio telescope, offering unprecedented capabilities for a diverse science programme in radio astronomy. At the same time, the SKA will be ideally suited to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-17 T. Huege , J. D. Bray , S. Buitink , R. Dallier , R. D. Ekers , H. Falcke , A. Haungs , C. W. James , L. Martin , B. Revenu , O. Scholten , F. G. Schröder , A. Zilles

The LOFAR radio telescope is able to measure the radio emission from cosmic ray induced air showers with hundreds of individual antennas. This allows for precision testing of the emission mechanisms for the radio signal as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 T Winchen , A Bonardi , S Buitink , A Corstanje , H Falcke , B M Hare , J R Hörandel , P Mitra , K Mulrey , A Nelles , J P Rachen , L Rossetto , P Schellart , O Scholten , S ter Veen , S Thoudam , T N G Trinh