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We present the Tiered Radio Extragalactic Continuum Simulation (T-RECS): a new simulation of the radio sky in continuum, over the 150 MHz-20 GHz range. T-RECS models two main populations of radio galaxies: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and…

TARA (Telescope Array Radar) is a cosmic ray radar detection experiment colocated with Telescope Array, the conventional surface scintillation detector (SD) and fluorescence telescope detector (FD) near Delta, Utah, U.S.A. The TARA detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. U. Abbasi , M. Abe , M. Abou Bakr Othman , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , D. Besson , S. A. Blake , M. Byrne , R. Cady , M. J. Chae , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , W. R. Cho , B. Farhang-Boroujeny , T. Fujii , M. Fukushima , W. H. Gillman , T. Goto , W. Hanlon , J. C. Hanson , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Honda , D. Ikeda , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , H. Ito , D. Ivanov , C. Jayanthmurthy , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , K. Kawata , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , S. Kunwar , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , J. P. Lundquist , K. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Mukai , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , T. Nonaka , A. Nozato , S. Ogio , J. Ogura , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , T. Okuda , M. Ono , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , S. Prohira , M. S. Pshirkov , A. Rezazadeh-Reyhani , D. C. Rodriguez , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , D. Schurig , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , T. Suzawa , H. Takai , M. Takamura , M. Takeda , R. Takeishi , A. Taketa , M. Takita , Y. Tameda , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , S. B. Thomas , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , S. Troitsky , Y. Tsunesada , K. Tsutsumi , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , F. Urban , G. Vasiloff , S. Venkatesh , T. Wong , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , K. Yashiro , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of 300 water Cherenkov detectors and has been fully operational since March 2015 in central Mexico. It detects cosmic- and gamma-ray showers in the TeV energy range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Vikas Joshi , Armelle Jardin-Blicq

Over the last decade, the Imaging Air Cerenkov technique has proven itself to be an extremely powerful means to study very energetic gamma-radiation from a number of astrophysical sources in a regime which is not practically accessible to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 I. de la Calle Perez , S. D. Biller

A birdcage resonant helicon antenna is designed, mounted and tested in the toroidal device TORPEX. The birdcage resonant antenna is an alternative to the usual Boswell or half-helical antenna designs commonly used for $\sim$ 10 cm diameter…

Over the last decades, radio detection of air showers has been established as a promising detection technique for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. Very large or dense antenna arrays are necessary to be proficient at collecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Anne Zilles , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Kumiko Kotera , Matias Tueros , Krijn de Vries , Washington Carvalho , Valentin Niess

One of the most promising techniques for detecting ultra-high energy neutrinos involves the use of radio antennas to observe the 10-1000 MHz radiation generated by the showers that neutrinos induce in large volumes of ice. The expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-05 Alan Coleman , Christian Glaser , Ryan Rice-Smith , Steven Barwick , Dave Besson

In this paper we explore the possibility to complement the cosmic ray physics program of the IceCube observatory with an extended surface array of radio antennas. The combination of air-shower sampling on the surface and muon calorimetry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Sebastian Böser

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next generation ground based observatory for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and hopefully a unique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 Ciro Bigongiari

LUNASKA (Lunar UHE Neutrino Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array) is an ongoing project conducting lunar Cherenkov observations in order to develop techniques for detecting neutrinos with the next generation of radio telescopes. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 J. D. Bray , R. D. Ekers , P. Roberts , J. E. Reynolds , C. W. James , C. J. Phillips , R. A. McFadden , R. J. Protheroe , M. Aartsen , J. Alvarez-Muñiz

Clusters of galaxies provide valuable information on the evolution of the Universe and large scale structures. Recent cluster observations via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect have proven to be a powerful tool to detect and study…

In September 2021, a site scouting mission known as the TRIDENT pathfinder experiment (TRIDENT EXplorer, T-REX for short) was conducted in the South China Sea with the goal of envisaging a next-generation multi-cubic-kilometer neutrino…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Wenlian Li , Xiaohui Liu , Wei Tian , Fuyudi Zhang , Shishen Xian , Mingxin Wang , Jiannan Tang , Fan Hu , Ziping Ye , Peng Miao , Zhengyang Sun , Donglian Xu

Accurate reconstruction of the electric field produced by Extensive Air Showers from the signals recorded by the antennas is essential for the radio detection technique, as the key parameters needed to retrieve information about the primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Kewen Zhang , Tim Huege , Ramesh Koirala , Pengxiong Ma , Matías Tueros , Xin Xu , Chao Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Yi Zhang

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

A new Radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), which operates at 800 MHz high frequency and will enable to accelerate of the proton beam efficiently was designed at KAHVELab (Kandilli Detector, Accelerator and Instrumentation Laboratory) at…

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) high-energy {\gamma}-ray observatory was completed in march 2015 in central Mexico. The detector, consisting of 300 water tanks, is currently being upgraded to improve its performance at Multi-TeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Armelle Jardin-Blicq , Vikas Joshi

Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) is a technique for measuring the kinetic energy of charged particles through a precision measurement of the frequency of the cyclotron radiation generated by the particle's motion in a…

The radio emission of cosmic-ray air-showers changes significantly depending on parameters like signal frequency, magnetic field configuration and observing altitude. We use CoREAS simulations to adapt an existing signal model for the radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Lukas Gülzow , Ralph Engel , Tim Huege , Markus Roth , Felix Schlüter

Machine learning is a useful tool for identifying radio pulses from cosmic-ray air showers and for cleaning such pulses from radio background. This can lower the detection threshold and increase the accuracy for the pulse time and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Frank G. Schroeder , Abdul Rehman