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We explore the sensitivity offered by a global network of cosmic ray detectors to a novel, unobserved phenomena: widely separated simultaneous extended air showers. Existing localized observatories work independently to observe individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Eric Albin , Daniel Whiteson

A cosmic ray detection system, consisting of standardized detector stations connected through the Internet, is described. The system can be used for detecting air showers that arrive over a wide area with correlated time. The data at each…

The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project created a few years ago in the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Krak\'ow and dedicated is to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena. The main reason…

CHICOS (California HIgh school Cosmic ray ObServatory) is presently an array of more than 140 detectors distributed over a large area (~400 km^2) of southern California, and will consist of 180 detectors at 90 locations in the near future.…

We report the first direct measurement of the overall characteristics of microwave radio emission from extensive air showers. Using a trigger provided by the KASCADE-Grande air shower array, the signals of the microwave antennas of the…

We present constraints on models of cosmology and astrophysics using cosmic shear data vectors from three datasets: the northern and southern Galactic cap of the Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere (DECADE) project, and the Dark Energy…

The paper concerns the hype idea of "Citizen Science" and the related paradigm shift: to go from the passive "volunteer computing" to other volunteer actions like "volunteer measurements" under guidance of scientists. They can be carried…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Nikita Gordienko , Oleg Lodygensky , Gilles Fedak , Yuri Gordienko

The modern astrophysics is moving towards the enlarging of experiments and combining the channels for detecting the highest energy processes in the Universe. To obtain reliable data, the experiments should operate within several decades,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Yulia Kazarina , Vasiliy Khristyuk , Alexander Kruykov , Evgeny Postnikov , Vladimir Samoliga , Alexey Shigarov , Victoria Tokareva , Dmitriy Zhurov

Ultra-high energy cosmic rays impinging onto the atmosphere induce huge cascades of secondary particles. The measurement of the energy radiated by these air showers in form of radio waves enables an accurate measurement of the cosmic-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Glaser

Since 2021, the Open Data Portal has provided access to the Pierre Auger Observatory's data for both the scientific community and the general public. The data release process has been in place since the Observatory's foundation. It…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 V. Scherini

The cosmic-ray database, CRDB, has been gathering cosmic-ray data for the community since 2013. We present a new release, CRDB v4.1, providing many new quantities and data sets, with several improvements made on the code and web interface,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 D. Maurin , M. Ahlers , H. Dembinski , A. Haungs , P. -S. Mangeard , F. Melot , P. Mertsch , D. Wochele , J. Wochele

We present an introductory lecture on general features of cosmic rays, for non-experts, and some recent developments concerning cascade equations for air shower developments.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Werner , V. Chernatkin , R. Engel , N. N. Kalmykov , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog

The characterization of the optical properties of the atmosphere in the near UV, in particular the tropospheric aerosol stratification, clouds optical depth and spatial distribution are common in the field of atmospheric physics, due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 M. Buscemi , C. Cassardo , M. Cilmo , M. Coco , S. Ferrarese , F. Guarino , A. S. Tonachini , L. Valore , L. Wiencke

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC) provides the INTEGRAL data and means to analyse them to the scientific community. The ISDC runs a gamma ray burst alert system that provides the position of gamma ray bursts on the sky within seconds…

Measurements of electron, muon, and hadron lateral distributions of extensive air showers as recorded by the KASCADE experiment are presented. The data cover the energy range from about 5x10^14 eV up to almost 10^17 eV and extend from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Antoni

The Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a project dedicated to global studies of extremely extended cosmic-ray phenomena, the cosmic-ray ensembles (CRE), beyond the capabilities of existing detectors and observatories.…

The XVII International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, held in August of 2012 in Berlin, was the first one in the history of the Symposium, where a plethora of high precision LHC data with relevance for cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Karl-Heinz Kampert

Cosmic ray air showers are known to emit pulsed radio emission at frequencies around a few tens of MHz. Accompanying the experimental efforts of the LOPES project, situated at the KASCADE-Grande site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry of research codes; it is indexed by ADS and Web of Science and has over 1300 code entries. Its entries are increasingly used to cite software; citations have been…

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