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The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope, with one square kilometer collecting area. Besides its ambitious scientific objectives, such as probing the cosmic dawn and cradle of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-23 B. Wang , X. Zhu , C. Gao , Y. Bai , J. W. Dong , L. J. Wang

The anisotropy of cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar vicinity is generally at- tributed to the CR streaming due to the discrete distribution of CR sources or local magnetic field modulation. Recently, the two dimensional large scale CR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-17 Xiao-bo Qu , Yi Zhang , Liang Xue , Cheng Liu , Hong-bo Hu

The energy reconstruction of extensive air showers measured with the LOFAR Radboud Air Shower Array (LORA) is presented in detail. LORA is a particle detector array located in the center of the LOFAR radio telescope in the Netherlands. The…

Recent measurements suggest that extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) emit signals in the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum caused by the collisions of the free-electrons with the atmospheric…

Particles in an extended air shower (EAS), initiated by a cosmic ray primary, lead to two nearly simultaneous detections in a scintillator pair. The angle of the EAS and the axis through both scintillators can be reconstructed using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 N. G. Schultheiss

The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, the largest observatory for ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the Northern Hemisphere, has identified two medium-scale anisotropies: the TA Hotspot near the constellation Ursa Major and an excess in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Jihyun Kim , Dmitri Ivanov , Kazumasa Kawata , Hiroyuki Sagawa , Gordon Thomson

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the premier instrument to study radiation at centimetre and metre wavelengths from the cosmos, and in particular hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe. The SKA will probe the dawn of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Minh Huynh , Joseph Lazio

The Telescope Array experiment studies ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid detector. Fluorescence telescopes measure the longitudinal development of the extensive air shower generated when a primary cosmic ray particle interacts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-14 Telescope Array Collaboration

The surface array of IceCube, IceTop, operates primarily as a cosmic-ray detector, as well as a veto for astrophysical neutrino searches for the IceCube in-ice instrumentation. However, the snow accumulation on top of the IceTop detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 S. Shefali , Frank G. Schroeder

The ASTrometric and phase-Referenced Astronomy (ASTRA) project will provide phase referencing and astrometric observations at the Keck Interferometer, leading to enhanced sensitivity and the ability to monitor orbits at an accuracy level of…

Anisotropy in arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays offers the most direct way to search for the sources of these particles. We present estimates of the angular correlation in the HiRes sample of stereo events above 10 EeV, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Chad Finley

An antenna array devoted to the autonomous radio-detection of high energy cosmic rays is being deployed on the site of the 21 cm array radio telescope in XinJiang, China. Thanks in particular to the very good electromagnetic environment of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-28 D. Ardouin , C. Carloganu , D. Charrier , Q. Gou , H. Hu , L. Kai , P. Lautridou , O. Martineau-Huynh , V. Niess , O. Ravel , T. Saugrin , X. Wu , J. Zhang , Y. Zhang , M. Zhao , Y. Zheng

We report on the characteristics and design details of the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM), a millimeter-wave, balloon-borne telescope that has been used to observe anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)…

IceTop, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, consists of 162 ice-Cherenkov tanks distributed over an area of 1km$^2$. Besides being used as a veto for the in-ice neutrino detector, IceTop is a powerful cosmic-ray detector.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Hrvoje Dujmovic , Alan Coleman , Marie Oehler

The KASCADE experiment measures extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays in the energy range around the so-called knee. The data of KASCADE have been used in a composition analysis showing the knee at 3-5 PeV to be caused by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 KASCADE Collaboration , W. D. Apel

The measurement of large scale anisotropies in cosmic ray arrival directions at energies above 10^13 eV is performed through the detection of Extensive Air Showers produced by cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere. The observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 R. Bonino , V. V. Alekseenko , O. Deligny , P. L. Ghia , M. Grigat , A. Letessier-Selvon , H. Lyberis , S. Mollerach , S. Over , E. Roulet

A new cluster type shower array NEVOD-EAS is designed for estimating the size, axis position and arrival direction of extensive air showers registered by the Cherenkov water detector NEVOD and coordinate detector DECOR (Moscow, Russia). In…

The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest hybrid cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, which observes primary particles in the energy range from 2 PeV to 100 EeV. The main TA detector consists of 507 plastic scintillation counters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-24 Hiroyuki Sagawa

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

Radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers requires time synchronization of detectors on a nanosecond level, especially for advanced reconstruction algorithms based on the wavefront curvature and for interferometric analysis approaches. At…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Tim Huege
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