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Cosmic-ray air shower detection with the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope is envisioned to yield very high precision measurements of the particle composition of cosmic rays between $10^{16}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 A. Corstanje , S. Buitink , S. Bouma , M. Desmet , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , P. Laub , K. Mulrey , A. Nelles , O. Scholten , K. Terveer , S. Thoudam , K. Watanabe

Today's deep high resolution multiwavelength surveys contain a wealth of information about galaxies at different epochs. To fully exploit this information, it is useful to be able to produce highly realistic simulations to compare with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rychard J. Bouwens , Garth D. Illingworth , Daniel Magee

We present a comprehensive methodology for the simulation of astronomical images from optical survey telescopes. We use a photon Monte Carlo approach to construct images by sampling photons from models of astronomical source populations,…

The third data release of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey provides an unprecedented view of the northern sky at 144 MHz. While compact sources can be efficiently identified with automated software packages, the detection of diffuse radio…

In this paper we simulate a deep multi-frequency zenith-field sky survey on RATAN-600 (the RZF survey). In our simulations we use the 1.4 GHz sky images obtained in the NVSS survey. We convolved NVSS images with the two-dimensional power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. K. Majorova

Giant radio halos are mega-parsec scale synchrotron sources detected in a fraction of massive and merging galaxy clusters. Radio halos provide one of the most important pieces of evidence for non-thermal components in large scale structure.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Cassano , G. Brunetti , H. J. A. Rottgering , M. Bruggen

LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array) is the largest radio telescope in the world for observing low frequency radio emission from 10 to 240 MHz. In addition to its use as an interferometric array, LOFAR is now routinely used to detect cosmic ray…

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the well-established particle detector and air fluorescence…

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

Systematic effects arising from cosmic rays have been shown to be a significant threat to space telescopes using high-sensitivity bolometers. The LiteBIRD space mission aims to measure the polarised Cosmic Microwave Background with…

An ongoing challenge for radio-based detectors of high-energy cosmic particles is the accurate description of radio signal propagation in natural nonuniform media. For radio signals originating from extensive air showers, the current state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Dieder Van den Broeck , Uzair Abdul Latif , Stijn Buitink , Krijn de Vries , Tim Huege

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

Understanding diffuse Galactic radio emission is interesting both in its own right and for minimizing foreground contamination of cosmological measurements. Cosmic Microwave Background experiments have focused on frequencies > 10 GHz,…

In this work we study the flux density dependence of the redshift distribution of low-frequency radio sources observed in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) deep fields and apply it to estimate the clustering length of the large-scale…

The low frequency array (LOFAR), is the first radio telescope designed with the capability to measure radio emission from cosmic-ray induced air showers in parallel with interferometric observations. In the first $\sim 2\,\mathrm{years}$ of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 P. Schellart , A. Nelles , S. Buitink , A. Corstanje , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , W. Frieswijk , J. R. Hörandel , A. Horneffer , C. W. James , M. Krause , M. Mevius , O. Scholten , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , M. van den Akker , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , L. Bähren , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , P. Bennema , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , J. Bregman , F. Breitling , M. Brentjens , J. Broderick , M. Brüggen , B. Ciardi , A. Coolen , F. de Gasperin , E. de Geus , A. de Jong , M. de Vos , S. Duscha , J. Eislöffel , R. A. Fallows , C. Ferrari , M. A. Garrett , J. Grießmeier , T. Grit , J. P. Hamaker , T. E. Hassall , G. Heald , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , H. A. Holties , M. Iacobelli , E. Juette , A. Karastergiou , W. Klijn , J. Kohler , V. I. Kondratiev , M. Kramer , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , P. Maat , G. Macario , G. Mann , S. Markoff , D. McKay-Bukowski , J. P. McKean , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , J. D. Mol , D. D. Mulcahy , H. Munk , R. Nijboer , M. J. Norden , E. Orru , R. Overeem , H. Paas , M. Pandey-Pommier , R. Pizzo , A. G. Polatidis , A. Renting , J. W. Romein , H. Röttgering , A. Schoenmakers , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , C. Sobey , B. W. Stappers , M. Steinmetz , J. Swinbank , Y. Tang , C. Tasse , C. Toribio , J. van Leeuwen , R. van Nieuwpoort , R. J. van Weeren , N. Vermaas , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. J. Wijnholds , M. W. Wise , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka , A. Zensus

The study of transient and variable low-frequency radio sources is a key goal for LOFAR, with an extremely broad science case ranging from relativistic jets sources to pulsars, exoplanets, radio bursts at cosmological distances, the…

The LOFAR radio telescope is able to measure the radio emission from cosmic ray induced air showers with hundreds of individual antennas. This allows for precision testing of the emission mechanisms for the radio signal as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 T Winchen , A Bonardi , S Buitink , A Corstanje , H Falcke , B M Hare , J R Hörandel , P Mitra , K Mulrey , A Nelles , J P Rachen , L Rossetto , P Schellart , O Scholten , S ter Veen , S Thoudam , T N G Trinh

We present an analysis of 152,355 radio sources identified in the second data release of the LOFAR Two Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS-DR2) with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.00 < z < 0.57. Using Monte Carlo…

The growing demand for effective spectrum management and interference mitigation in shared bands, such as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), requires robust radar detection algorithms to protect the military transmission from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rahul Vanukuri , Shafi Ullah Khan , Talip Tolga Sarı , Gokhan Secinti , Diego Patiño , Debashri Roy

In recent years the possibility of measuring the temporal change of radial and transverse position of sources in the sky in real time have become conceivable thanks to the thoroughly improved technique applied to new astrometric and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-26 Claudia Quercellini , Luca Amendola , Amedeo Balbi , Paolo Cabella , Miguel Quartin

We present a study of weak lensing shear measurements for simulated galaxy images at radio wavelengths. We construct a simulation pipeline into which we can input galaxy images of known ellipticity, and with which we then simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Prina Patel , Filipe B. Abdalla , David J. Bacon , Barnaby Rowe , Oleg Smirnov , Rob J. Beswick