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The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, measures the radio emission of extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz frequency range. AERA consists of more than 150 antenna stations distributed over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Olga Kambeitz

The ability to extract the pulse width and translate it into the actual disk width of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) is a hard one requiring accurate knowledge of the system performance. For that, the analysis for the cable calibration for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 D. Beznosko , A. Iakovlev , V. D. Mosunov , B. Mustafin , A. Sabyrov , M. I. Vildanova , V. V. Zhukov

Currently the detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays for astrophysics rely on the measurement of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays with larger field of views but also larger energy thresholds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 P. Assis , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Blanco , R. Conceição , B. D'Ettoree Piazzoli , A. de Angelis , M. Doro , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , G. Matthiae , M. Pimenta , R. Shellard , B. Tomé

The progress in the development of the SPHERE-3 project is reported. The capabilities of the reflected Cherenkov light telescope and the direct light detector are stated. The procedures for separate EAS primary parameter assessment are…

We present results demonstrating the time resolution and $\mu$/e separation capabilities with a new concept of an EAS detector capable for measurements of cosmic rays arriving with large zenith angles. This kind of detector has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Iori , H. Denizli , A. Yilmaz , F. Ferrarotto , J. Russ

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed to detect cosmogenic gamma-rays with very high energies. Originally consisting of just four identical IACTs (CT1-4)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Holler , A. Balzer , R. Chalmé-Calvet , M. de Naurois , D. Zaborov

In order to better understand energy estimation of electromagnetic showers in segmented calorimeters, detailed Geant4 simulation studies of electromagnetic showers in the energy range 1--100 GeV in CsI have been performed. When sampled in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Sara Bergenius Gavler , Per Carlson , Jan Conrad

A measurement of the lateral distribution of Cherenkov light in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) at E0 = 10-100 TeV and a study of the compatibility of the photon number spectra with the expectations from the direct measurements of p and He…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 The EAS-TOP , MACRO Collaborations

We show that with GLAST there will be the possibility to detect, within the UHECR skimming at atmosphere edges, the showers generated by very high energy upward and horizontal Tau. The effective area, thanks to the large area covered by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-13 Daniele Fargion

The GRAND project aims to detect ultra-high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays and gamma rays, with an array of $200,000$ radio antennas over $200,000\,{\rm km}^2$, split into $\sim 20$ sub-arrays of $\sim 10,000\,{\rm km}^2$ deployed worldwide.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Kumiko Kotera

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

The Tibet-III air shower array, consisting of 533 scintillation detectors, has been operating successfully at Yangbajing in Tibet, China since 1999. Using the dataset collected by this array from 1999 November through 2005 November, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Amenomori

The imaging atmospheric Cherenkov array H.E.S.S. recently discovered an extended source in the 0.4$-$10 TeV energy range, HESS J1303-631. We obtained a 5 ks observation with the ACIS-I array on the Chandra X-ray observatory that does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Mukherjee , J. P. Halpern

We present analysis techniques to improve the energy resolution of stereoscopic systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, using the HEGRA telescope system as an example. The techniques include (i) the determination of the height…

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

The detection of astrophysical Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) has always been intertwined with the challenge of identifying the direction of the source. Accurate angular localization of better than a degree has been achieved to date only with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Roi Rahin , Luca Moleri , Alex Vdovin , Amir Feigenboim , Solomon Margolin , Shlomit Tarem , Ehud Behar , Max Ghelman , Alon Osovizky

Novel methods to reconstruct the slant depth of the maximum of the longitudinal profile (\Xmax) of high-energy showers initiated by gamma-rays as well as their energy ($E_0$) are presented. The methods were developed for gamma rays with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 R. Conceição , L. Peres , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

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

This paper introduces a Gaussian process (GP)-based method for extended object estimation (EOE) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scenarios, representing a promising approach to enhance environmental awareness beyond the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 M. Ertug Pihtili , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Julia Equi , Jukka Talvitie , Elena Simona Lohan , Ertugrul Basar , Mikko Valkama

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov