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In this paper we review air shower data related to the mass composition of cosmic rays above 10$^{15}$ eV. After explaining the basic relations between air shower observables and the primary mass and energy of cosmic rays, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Karl-Heinz Kampert , Michael Unger

In order to get the primary energy of cosmic rays from their extensive air showers using the fluorescence detection technique, the invisible energy should be added to the measured calorimetric energy. The invisible energy is the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-21 Analisa G. Mariazzi

We find ourselves on the brink of an exciting era in observational astrophysics, driven by groundbreaking facilities like JWST, Euclid, Rubin, Roman, SKA, or ELT. Simultaneously, computational astrophysics has shown significant strides,…

This article presents an open-source Python package for simulating micro-thermoelectric generators, based on the work by D. Beretta et al. (Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2017). Featuring a user-friendly graphical user interface and robust…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 D. Beretta

Asteroseismology is well-established in astronomy as the gold standard for determining precise and accurate fundamental stellar properties like masses, radii, and ages. Several tools have been developed for asteroseismic analyses but many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Ashley Chontos , Daniel Huber , Maryum Sayeed , Pavadol Yamsiri

The energy-dependent abundance of elements in cosmic rays plays an important role in understanding their acceleration and propagation. Most current results are obtained either from direct measurements by balloon- or satellite-borne…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Henrike Fleischhack

This paper describes HyperStream, a large-scale, flexible and robust software package, written in the Python language, for processing streaming data with workflow creation capabilities. HyperStream overcomes the limitations of other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Tom Diethe , Meelis Kull , Niall Twomey , Kacper Sokol , Hao Song , Miquel Perello-Nieto , Emma Tonkin , Peter Flach

Fluorescence telescopes are among the key instruments used for studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays in all modern experiments. We use model data for a small ground-based telescope EUSO-TA to try some methods of machine learning and neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Mikhail Zotov , Pavel Zakharov

Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmental conditions that can affect the behaviour of the data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 The ANTARES Collaboration , A. Albert , M. André , M. Anghinolfi , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , J. Aublin , B. Baret , S. Basa , B. Belhorma , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , M. Bissinger , J. Boumaaza , M. Bouta , M. C. Bouwhuis , H. Branzas , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , S. Cecchini , S. Celli , M. Chabab , T. N. Chau , R. Cherkaoui El Moursli , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , A. Coleiro , M. Colomer-Molla , R. Coniglione , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , A. F. Diaz , G. de Wasseige , A. Deschamps , C. Distefano , I. Di Palma , A. Domi , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , T. Eberl , N. El Khayati , A. Enzenhofer , A. Ettahiri , P. Fermani , G. Ferrara , F. Filippini , L. Fusco , P. Gay , H. Glotin , R. Gozzini , K. Graf , C. Guidi , S. Hallmann , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernandez-Rey , J. Hossl , J. Hofestadt , F. Huang , G. Illuminati , C. W. James , M. de Jong , P. de Jong , M. Jongen , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , N. R. Khan-Chowdhury , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , R. Le Breton , D. Lefevre , E. Leonora , G. Levi , M. Lincetto , D. Lopez-Coto , S. Loucatos , J. Manczak , M. Marcelin , A. Margiotta , A. Marinelli , J. A. Martinez-Mora , S. Mazzou , K. Melis , P. Migliozzi , M. Moser , A. Moussa , R. Muller , L. Nauta , S. Navas , E. Nezri , A. Nunez-Castineyra , B. O'Fearraigh , M. Organokov , G. E. Pavalas , C. Pellegrino , M. Perrin-Terrin , P. Piattelli , C. Poirè , V. Popa , T. Pradier , N. Randazzo , S. Reck , G. Riccobene , F. Salesa , A. Sanchez-Losa , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schnabel , F. Schussler , M. Spurio , Th. Stolarczyk , B. Strandberg , M. Taiuti , Y. Tayalati , T. Thakore , S. J. Tingay , B. Vallage , V. Van Elewyck , F. Versari , S. Viola , D. Vivolo , J. Wilms , A. Zegarelli , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zuniga

We present a collection of new, open-source computational tools for numerically modeling recent large-scale observational data sets using modern cosmology theory. Specifically, these tools will allow both students and researchers to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-22 Jacob Moldenhauer , Larry Engelhardt , Keenan Stone , Ezekiel Shuler

High-energy neutrino astronomy represents an open window both on astrophysical mechanisms of particle acceleration and on fundamental interactions. The possibility of detecting them in large earth-based apparatus, like AUGER, AMANDA,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , A. Della Selva , G. Miele , S. Pastor , O. Pisanti , L. Rosa

We present an open source Python 3 library aimed at practitioners of molecular simulation, especially Monte Carlo simulation. The aims of the library are to facilitate the generation of simulation data for a wide range of problems; and to…

We present the results of a preliminary study of a correction method applied to the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope images affected by clouds. The studied data are Monte Carlo simulations made with CORSIKA, imitating the very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Natalia Żywucka , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Mario Pecimotika , Dario Hrupec , Dijana Dominis Prester , Lovro Pavletić , Saša Mićanović

lightcurver is a photometric pipeline for time series astronomical imaging data, designed for the semi-automatic extraction of precise light curves from small, blended targets. Such targets include, but are not limited to, lensed quasars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Frédéric Dux

Photon thermalisation and condensation in dye-filled microcavities is a growing area of scientific interest, at the intersection of photonics, quantum optics and statistical physics. We give here a short introduction to the topic, together…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-21 R. A. Nyman , H. S. Dhar , J. D. Rodrigues , F. Mintert

Multi-detector observations of individual air showers are critical to make significant progress to precisely determine cosmic-ray quantities such as mass and energy of individual events and thus bring us a step forward in answering the open…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-22 Alan Coleman

The fluorescence-detection techniques of cosmic-ray air-shower experiments require precise knowledge of atmospheric properties to reconstruct air-shower energies. Up to now, the atmosphere in desert-like areas was assumed to be stable…

Cosmic rays have valuable information about universe surroundings us. Finding energy, mass and arrival direction of primary cosmic ray particle are the most important aspects of extensive air shower studies. In order to determine these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 H. Hedayati Kh. , A. Anvari , M. Bahmanabadi , M. Khakian Ghomi , J. Samimi

The Python package pylimer-tools is a comprehensive toolkit for computational studies of polymer networks, particularly bead-spring networks. The package provides functionality to generate polymer networks using Monte Carlo (MC) procedures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-18 Tim Bernhard , Fabian Schwarz , Andrei A. Gusev

The proposed SCORE detector consists of a large array of light collecting modules designed to sample the Cherenkov light front of extensive air showers in order to detect high energy gamma-rays. A large spacing of the detector stations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-04 Daniel Hampf , Martin Tluczykont , Dieter Horns