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We present preliminary results from the 2-degree Field (2dF) QSO Redshift Survey currently under way at the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This survey aims to determine the redshifts of >25000 QSOs over a redshift range of 0.3<z<3.0 with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Croom , T. Shanks , B. J. Boyle , R. J. Smith , L. Miller , N. S. Loaring

A surface array of radio antennas will enhance the performance of the IceTop array and enable new, complementary science goals. First, the accuracy for cosmic-ray air showers will be increased since the radio array provides a calorimetric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Frank G. Schröder

Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an…

A Square Kilometer Array radio telescope will detect tens of thousands of galaxies per square degree in the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen. The telescope will be sensitive to ordinary galaxy populations at redshifts z>3 when the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. H. Briggs

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can be sources of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) cosmic rays and potential emitters of UHE neutrinos. The upcoming and current radio neutrino detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Kumiko Kotera , Stephanie Wissel , Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura

GRANDMA is a world-wide collaboration with the primary scientific goal of studying gravitational-wave sources, discovering their electromagnetic counterparts and characterizing their emission. GRANDMA involves astronomers, astrophysicists,…

This paper presents the results of spectral observations for the largest complete sample of very luminous IRAS galaxies obtained to date. The sample consists of those 73 objects for which log (L_IR/L_sun) => 11.5 (H0=50 km/s/Mpc, q0=0.5)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 H. Wu , Z. L. Zou , X. Y. Xia , Z. G. Deng

We explore the feasibility of using the Moon as a detector of extremely high energy (>10^19 eV) cosmic rays and neutrinos. The idea is to use the existing radiotelescopes on Earth to look for short pulses of Cherenkov radiation in the GHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. Alvarez-Muñiz , E. Zas

Radio detection of air showers in the current era has progressed immensely to effectively extract the properties of these air showers. Primary cosmic rays with energies of hundreds of PeV have been successfully measured with the method of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Aswathi Balagopal V. , Andreas Haungs , Thomas Huber , Tim Huege , Matthias Kleifges , Max Renschler , Harald Schieler , Frank G. Schröder , Andreas Weindl

For our understanding of the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays, the energy region between 10^17 and 10^19 eV is of crucial importance. Previous experiments have found indirect evidence that at these energies, the origin of cosmic rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Todd Adams , Eugene C. Loh , Segev BenZvi , Stefan Westerhoff

Project GRAND is a 100m x 100m air shower array of position sensitive proportional wire chambers (PWCs) located at 41.7 degrees North and 86.2 degrees West at an elevation of 220m above sea level. Its convenient location adjacent to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Poirier , C. D'Andrea , M. Lopez del Puerto , E. Strahler , J. Vermedahl

Antenna arrays are beginning to make important contributions to high energy astroparticle physics supported by recent progress in the radio technique for air showers. This article provides an update to my more extensive review published in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-17 Frank G. Schröder

A common challenge in many experiments in high-energy astroparticle physics is the need for sparse instrumentation in areas of 100 km2 and above, often in remote and harsh environments. All these arrays have similar requirements for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-20 T. Karg , A. Haungs , M. Kleifges , R. Nahnhauer , K. -H. Sulanke

We present the first results from the Distant Radio Galaxies Optically Non-detected in the SDSS (DRaGONS) Survey. Using a novel selection technique for identifying high redshift radio galaxy (HzRG) candidates, a large sample of bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. J. Schmidt , A. J. Connolly , A. M. Hopkins

Radio galaxies are uniquely useful as probes of large-scale structure as their uniform identification with giant elliptical galaxies out to high redshift means that the evolution of their bias factor can be predicted. As the initial stage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark Lacy

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation neutrino experiment under construction in China expected to be completed in 2022. As the main goal it aims to determine the neutrino mass ordering with 3-4 $\sigma$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Philipp Kampmann , Yaping Cheng , Livia Ludhova

Ultra-steep spectrum (USS) radio sources are good tracers of powerful radio galaxies at $z > 2$. Identification of even a single bright radio galaxy at $z > 6$ can be used to detect redshifted 21cm absorption due to neutral hydrogen in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 A. Saxena , P. Jagannathan , H. J. A. Röttgering , P. N. Best , H. T. Intema , M. Zhang , K. J. Duncan , C. L. Carilli , G. K. Miley

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-24 Cong Guo

We present a new sample of 84 large angular size radio galaxies selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. Radio sources with declination above +60 degrees, total flux density greater than 100 mJy at 1.4 GHz and angular size larger than 4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Lara , W. D. Cotton , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , J. M. Marcaide , I. Marquez , T. Venturi

Galaxy redshift surveys using optical telescopes have, in combination with other cosmological probes, enabled precision measurements of the nature of dark energy. We show that radio telescopes are rapidly becoming competitive with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-07 Alan R. Duffy