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The Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter telescope is currently monitoring a sample of about 1700 blazars every three days at 15 GHz, with the main scientific goal of determining the relation between the variability of blazars at radio…

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This is the first paper of a series exploring the multi-frequency properties of a sample of eleven nearby low excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) in the southern sky. We are conducting an extensive study of different galaxy components (stars,…

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is a five-station, in-ice radio detector located at the South Pole searching for particle cascades from cosmogenic and astrophysical neutrinos with $\geq10^{17}$ eV of energy. Cascades in this energy regime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Abigail Bishop , Alan Salcedo Gomez , Marco Stein Muzio

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory-Telescope Array (EUSO-TA) is a ground-based experiment, part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions -- Extreme Universe Space Observatory) dedicated to the observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Z. Plebaniak , J. Szabelski , M. Przybylak , L. W. Piotrowski , A. Djakonow , K. Krolik

EAS arrays are survey instruments able to monitor continuously all the overhead sky. Their sensitivity in the sub-TeV/TeV energy domain cannot compete with that of Cherenkov telescopes, but the wide field of view (about 2 sr) is ideal to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-04 G. Di Sciascio

We investigate the radio properties of a complete sample of nearby, massive, X-ray bright elliptical and S0 galaxies. Our sample contains 18 galaxies with ROSAT All-Sky Survey X-ray fluxes Fx_(0.1-2.4 keV) > 3 x 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2, within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Robert Dunn , Steve Allen , Greg Taylor , Kathleen Shurkin , Gianfranco Gentile , Andy Fabian , Chris Reynolds

We report radio SETI observations on a large number of known exoplanets and other nearby star systems using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). Observations were made over about 19000 hours from May 2009 to Dec 2015. This search focused on…

FRAM - F/(Ph)otometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor is the latest addition to the atmospheric monitoring instruments of the Pierre Auger Observatory. An optical telescope equipped with CCD camera and photometer, it automatically observes a…

Many massive early-type galaxies host central radio sources and hot X-ray atmospheres indicating the presence of radio-mechanical active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. The duty cycle and detailed physics of the radio-mode AGN feedback is…

As a pilot study for the first all-sky radio survey at short wavelengths, we have observed 1216 sq. deg. of the southern sky at 18GHz (16mm) using a novel wide-band (3.4GHz bandwidth) analogue correlator on one baseline of the Australia…

The AUGER Collaboration has recently published the precise energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 1 EeV, which exhibits rich and interesting features. These features provide an opportunity to investigate the galactic propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-16 Weikang Gao , Dan Li , Wei Liu , Hua Yue , Hongbo Hu

The Pierre Auger Observatory is planned to be upgraded so that the energy spectrum of cosmic rays can be studied down to 0.1 EeV and the muon component of showers can be determined. The former will lead to a spectrum measured by one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Etchegoyen

The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) is an ultra-high energy ($>10^{17}$ eV) cosmic neutrino detector in phased construction near the South Pole. ARA searches for radio Cherenkov emission from particle cascades induced by neutrino interactions in…

Measurements of redshifted 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen at <30 MHz have the potential to probe the cosmic "dark ages," a period of the universe's history that remains unobserved to date. Observations at these frequencies are…

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Gravitational-wave astronomy has developed enormously over the last decade, with the first detections and continuous development across broad frequency bands. However, the decihertz range has largely been left out of this development.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Lucas M. B. Alves , Andrew G. Sullivan , Xingyu Ji , Doğa Veske , Imre Bartos , Sebastian Will , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

The southern Pierre Auger Observatory, presently under construction in Malarg"ue, Argentina, is nearing completion. The instrument is designed to measure extensive air-showers with energies ranging from $10^{18}$-$10^{20}$ eV and beyond. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-06 Karl-Heinz Kampert

We present a conceptual design study of external calibrators in the 21 cm experiment towards detecting the globally averaged radiation of the epoch of reionization (EoR). Employment of external calibrator instead of internal calibrator…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yan Huang , Xiang-Ping Wu , Quan Guo , Qian Zheng , Biying Li , Huanyuan Shan , Kejia Lee , Haiguang Xu

In 21 cm cosmology, precision calibration is key to the separation of the neutral hydrogen signal from very bright but spectrally-smooth astrophysical foregrounds. The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), an interferometer…

Recent calculations indicate that radio emission from quasars at $z \sim$ 6 - 7 could be detected at much earlier stages of evolution, at $z \sim$ 14 - 15, by the Next-Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) and the Square Kilometer Array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-10 Muhammad A. Latif , Ammara Aftab , Daniel J. Whalen

Absolute calibration of the Pierre Auger Observatory fluorescence detectors uses a light source at the telescope aperture. The technique accounts for the ombined effects of all detector components in a single measurement. The calibrated 2.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. Bauleo , J. Brack , L. Garrard , J. Harton , R. Knapik , R. Meyhandan , A. C. Rovero , A. Tamashiro , D. Warner