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We present time-domain Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation. Our model takes into account the important air shower characteristics such as the lateral and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

We describe a method of reconstructing air showers induced by cosmic rays using deep learning techniques. We simulate an observatory consisting of ground-based particle detectors with fixed locations on a regular grid. The detector's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Martin Erdmann , Jonas Glombitza , David Walz

We present a reconstruction algorithm for extensive air showers with zenith angles between 65$^\circ$ and 85$^\circ$ measured with radio antennas in the 30-80 MHz band. Our algorithm is based on a signal model derived from CoREAS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Tim Huege , Felix Schlüter

An efficient scheme for one-dimensional extensive air shower simulation and its implementation in the program CONEX are presented. Explicit Monte Carlo simulation of the high-energy part of hadronic and electromagnetic cascades in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 T. Bergmann , R. Engel , D. Heck , N. N. Kalmykov , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog , T. Thouw , K. Werner

ALTO is a wide field-of-view air shower detector array for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, proposed to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere at an altitude of about 5.1 km above sea level. The array will use water Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-04 Satyendra Thoudam , Yvonne Becherini , Michael Punch

The SENECA model, a new hybrid approach to air shower simulations, is presented. It combines the use of efficient cascade equations in the energy range where a shower can be treated as one-dimensional, with a traditional Monte Carlo method…

Surface radio antenna-based measurements of cosmic-ray air showers present significant computational challenges in accurately reconstructing physics observables, in particular, the depth of shower maximum, X$_{max}$. State-of-the-art…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-11 Paras Koundal

A new hybrid approach to air shower simulations is described. At highest energies, each particle is followed individually using the traditional Monte Carlo method; this initializes a system of cascade equations which are applicable for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans-Joachim Drescher , Glennys R. Farrar

For air showers observed simultaneously by more than two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, the shower geometry is overconstrained by the images and image information should be combined taking into account the quality of the images.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 W. Hofmann , I. Jung , A. Konopelko , H. Krawczynski , H. Lampeitl , G. Puehlhofer

The experimental technique of fluorescence light observation is used in current and planned air shower experiments that aim at understanding the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In the fluorescence technique, the geometry of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-30 D. Kuempel , K. -H. Kampert , M. Risse

Cherenkov gamma telescope observes high energy gamma rays, taking advantage of the radiation emitted by charged particles produced inside the electromagnetic showers initiated by the gammas, and developing in the atmosphere. The detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Emmanuel Dadzie , Kelvin Kwakye

The preparation of the next-generation of large-scale radio experiments requires running a large number of simulations to explore multiple detector configurations over vast areas and develop novel methods for the reconstruction of air…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Simon Chiche , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Matias Tueros , Krijn D. de Vries

A Monte-Carlo study is presented using ground based measurements of the electromagnetic part of showers initiated in the atmosphere by high energetic cosmic rays to reconstruct energy and mass of primary particles with energies above 300…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Lindner

A new SPHERE-3 telescope is being developed for cosmic rays spectrum and mass composition studies in the 5--1000 PeV energy range. Registration of extensive air showers using reflected Cherenkov light method applied in the SPHERE detector…

The Cherenkov light produced in air showers largely contributes to the signal observed in ground-based gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observatories. Yet, no description of this phenomenon is available covering both regions of small and large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Luan Arbeletche , Vitor de Souza

Issues relating to extensive air showers observation by a space-borne fluorescence detector and the effects of clouds on the observations are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. The simulations assume the presence of clouds with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Abu-Zayyad , C. C. H. Jui , E. C. Loh

In this paper, we present the results of Monte Carlo simulations of atmospheric showers induced by diffuse gamma rays as detected by the high-energy gamma ray astronomy (HEGRA) system of five imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes (IACTs).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , F. Lucarelli , H. Lampeitl , W. Hofmann

This work is a methodical study on hybrid reconstruction techniques for hybrid imaging/timing Cherenkov observations. This type of hybrid array is to be realized at the gamma-observatory TAIGA intended for very high energy gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 E. B. Postnikov , A. A. Grinyuk , L. A. Kuzmichev , L. G. Sveshnikova

We present an improved method for the precise reconstruction of cosmic ray air showers above $10^{17}$ eV with sparse radio arrays. The method is based on the comparison of predictions for radio pulse shapes by CoREAS simulations to…

A new method of shower-image analysis is presented which appears very powerful as applied to those Cherenkov Imaging Telescopes with very high definition imaging capability. It provides hadron rejection on the basis of a single cut on the…