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The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is an ongoing sensitive, high-resolution 120-168MHz survey of the entire northern sky for which observations are now 20% complete. We present our first full-quality public data release. For this data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-21 T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , M. J. Hardcastle , A. P. Mechev , W. L. Williams , P. N. Best , H. J. A. Röttgering , J. R. Callingham , T. J. Dijkema , F. de Gasperin , D. N. Hoang , B. Hugo , M. Mirmont , J. B. R. Oonk , I. Prandoni , D. Rafferty , J. Sabater , O. Smirnov , R. J. van Weeren , G. J. White , M. Atemkeng , L. Bester , E. Bonnassieux , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , K. T. Chyży , R. Cochrane , J. E. Conway , J. H. Croston , A. Danezi , K. Duncan , M. Haverkorn , G. H. Heald , M. Iacobelli , H. T. Intema , N. Jackson , M. Jamrozy , M. J. Jarvis , R. Lakhoo , M. Mevius , G. K. Miley , L. Morabito , R. Morganti , D. Nisbet , E. Orrú , S. Perkins , R. F. Pizzo , C. Schrijvers , D. J. B. Smith , R. Vermeulen , M. W. Wise , L. Alegre , D. J. Bacon , I. M. van Bemmel , R. J. Beswick , A. Bonafede , A. Botteon , S. Bourke , M. Brienza , G. Calistro Rivera , R. Cassano , A. O. Clarke , C. J. Conselice , R. J. Dettmar , A. Drabent , C. Dumba , K. L. Emig , T. A. Enßlin , C. Ferrari , M. A. Garrett , R. T. Génova-Santos , A. Goyal , G. Gürkan , C. Hale , J. J. Harwood , V. Heesen , M. Hoeft , C. Horellou , C. Jackson , G. Kokotanekov , R. Kondapally , M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , V. Mahatma , E. K. Mahony , S. Mandal , J. P. McKean , A. Merloni , B. Mingo , A. Miskolczi , S. Mooney , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , S. P. O'Sullivan , J. Quinn , W. Reich , C. Roskowiński , A. Rowlinson , F. Savini , A. Saxena , D. J. Schwarz , A. Shulevski , S. S. Sridhar , H. R. Stacey , S. Urquhart , M. H. D. van der Wiel , E. Varenius , B. Webster , A. Wilber

We present a technique to measure chemical composition and particle cross-section of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using radio data. We relate the geometry of the radio footprint on the ground to the depth of the extensive air shower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 Konstantin Belov

The Telescope to Observe Planetary Systems (TOPS) is a proposed space mission to image in the visible (0.4-0.9 micron) planetary systems of nearby stars simultaneously in 16 spectral bands (resolution R~20). For the ~10 most favorable…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz survey split across multiple tiers over the northern sky. The first LoTSS Deep Fields data release consists of deep radio continuum…

Low-frequency radio observations have been expected to serve as a powerful tool for Space Weather (SW) observations for decades. Radio observations are sensitive to a wide range of SW-related observations ranging from emissions from coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi , Puja Majee

Detection of the mostly geomagnetically generated radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers provides an alternative to air-Cherenkov and air-fluorescence detection, since it is not limited to clear nights. Like these established methods, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-20 Frank G. Schröder

We determined relative X-ray photon emission cross sections in Fe XVII ions that were mono-energetically excited in an electron beam ion trap. Line formation for the 3s (3s-2p) and 3d (3d-2p) transitions of interest proceeds through…

Observations at radio wavelengths address key problems in astrophysics, astrobiology, and lunar structure including the first light in the Universe (the Epoch of Reionization), the presence of magnetic fields around extrasolar planets,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Lazio , R. J. Macdowall , J. Burns , L. Demaio , D. L. Jones , K. W. Weiler

The Large Area Telescope on board the \textit{Fermi} satellite (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) detected more than 1.6 million cosmic-ray electrons/positrons with energies above 60 GeV during its first year of operation. The arrival directions of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

Antenna arrays are beginning to make important contributions to high energy astroparticle physics supported by recent progress in the radio technique for air showers. This article provides an update to my more extensive review published in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-17 Frank G. Schröder

This review provides an introduction to the radio emission by particle cascades, an overview on the various experiments, and explains methods for the radio measurement of air-shower properties. Furthermore, potential applications of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Frank G. Schröder

Studies of the radio detection of Extensive Air Showers is the goal of the demonstrative experiment CODALEMA. Previous analysis have demonstrated that detection around $5.10^{16}$ eV was achieved with this set-up. New results allow for the…

{Measurements of cosmic-ray composition based on air-shower measurements rely mostly on the determination of the position of the shower maximum ($X_\mathrm{max}$). One efficient technique is to image the development of the air shower using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 V. B. Jhansi , S. Thoudam , S. Buitink , A. Corstranje , M. Desmet , J. R. Horandel , T. Heuge , K. Mulrey , O. Scholten

The mass composition of cosmic rays contains important clues about their origin. Accurate measurements are needed to resolve long-standing issues such as the transition from Galactic to extragalactic origin, and the nature of the cutoff…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Buitink , A. Corstanje , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , A. Nelles , J. P. Rachen , P. Schellart , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , T. N. G. Trinh

Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescopes and interferometer arrays and to observe at shorter…

The first experiment in which radio emission was detected from high energy particles is described. An array of dipoles was operated by a team of British and Irish physicists in 1964-5 at the Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory in conjunction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Trevor C. Weekes

LuSEE-Night is a pathfinder radio telescope on the lunar far side employing four 3-m monopole antennas arranged as two horizontal cross pseudo-dipoles on a rotational stage and sensitive to the radio sky in the 1-50 MHz frequency band.…

In 2018 the EDGES experiment claimed the first detection of the global cosmic 21cm signal, which featured an absorption trough centered around $z \sim 17$ with a depth of approximately -500mK. This amplitude is deeper than the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Junsong Cang , Andrei Mesinger , Steven G. Murray , Daniela Breitman , Yuxiang Qin , Roberto Trotta

In this paper, we introduce a laboratory prototype of a solar energetic particle (SEP) detector which will operate along with other space-based instruments to give us more insight into the SEP physics. The instrument is designed to detect…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-20 Egor Stadnichuk , Tatyana Abramova , Mikhail Zelenyi , Alexander Izvestnyy , Alexander Nozik , Vladimir Palmin , Ivan Zimovets

As a basis for the interpretation of data gathered by LOPES and other experiments, we have carried out Monte Carlo simulations of geosynchrotron radio emission from cosmic ray air showers. The simulations, having been verified carefully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke