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The ANTARES detector, completed in 2008, is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. Located at a depth of 2.5 km in the Mediterranean Sea, 40 km off the Toulon shore, its main goal is the search for astrophysical high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-17 The ANTARES Collaboration

Recent precision measurements of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) arrival directions, spectrum and parameters related to the mass of the primary particle have been done by the HiRes, Pierre Auger and Telescope Array (TA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Rita C. dos Anjos , Vitor de Souza , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Edivaldo M. Santos

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

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

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned large-scale radio array designed to detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E > 100$ PeV) and neutrinos. Employing cost-effective antennas distributed across vast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Kewen Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yi-Qing Guo

Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and perhaps a unique probe for new physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are already giving results in the physics of acceleration of cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michele Doro

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 present a concept for large-area, low-cost detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST), addressing the requirements for the next generation of UHECR…

In this letter, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with a rotatable antenna (RA) array to enhance the sensing performance of a uniform sparse array (USA). To tackle the severe spatial undersampling issues, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Jincheng Du , Wenyan Ma , Qingqing Wu , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

To continue the unparalleled success of the Very Large Array (VLA) for radio astronomy, the facility is currently being converted to become the 'Expanded VLA' (EVLA). The EVLA will radically improve the VLA in order to cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Ott , Rick Perley , Michael Rupen , the EVLA team

The signals that will be received on Earth from deep-space probes in future implementations of free-space optical communication will be extremely weak, and new ground stations will have to be developed in order to support these links. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-22 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Mariafernanda Vilera , Ricardo Vergaz , Juan Francisco Cabrero

We have developed an atmospheric monitoring system for the Telescope Array experiment at Akeno Observatory. It consists of a Nd:YAG laser with an alt-azimuth shooting system and a small light receiver. This system is installed inside an air…

Taking advantage of recent technical progress which has overcome some of the difficulties encountered in the 1960's in the radio detection of extensive air showers induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), a new experimental…

A new detection system KRATTA, Krak\'ow Triple Telescope Array, is presented. This versatile, low threshold, broad energy range system has been built to measure the energy, emission angle, and isotopic composition of light charged reaction…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

A revolution in radio receiving technology is underway with the development of densely packed phased arrays for radio astronomy. This technology can provide an exceptionally large field of view, while at the same time sampling the sky with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-03 S. A. Torchinsky , A. O. H. Olofsson , B. Censier , A. Karastergiou , M. Serylak , P. Renaud , C. Taffoureau

The EUSO-TA ground-based fluorescence detector of the JEM-EUSO program, which operates at the Telescope Array (TA) site in Utah (USA), is being upgraded. In the previous data acquisition campaigns, it detected the first nine ultra-high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Francesca Bisconti

The Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission (STARE) is a wide-field monitor for transient radio emission at 611 MHz on timescales of fractions of a second to minutes. Consisting of multiple geographically separated total-power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. A. Katz , J. N. Hewitt , C. B. Moore , B. E. Corey

The VERITAS observatory, located in southern Arizona, is engaged in an exploration of the gamma-ray sky at energies above 85 GeV. Observations of Galactic and extragalactic sources in the TeV band provide clues to the highly energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 David Hanna , Reshmi Mukherjee