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In this contribution, we present the status and first data from the Radio Detector (RD) at the Pierre Auger Observatory, consisting of $1660$ radio antennas deployed across the $3000$ km$^2$ surface detector array. These antennas measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Bjarni Pont

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), of energy >10 EeV, arrive at the Earth regularly, but their sources, acceleration mechanisms, details of propagation through the universe, and particle composition remain mysteries. In addition, their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Sijbrand de Jong

In this paper, I present a review of the main results obtained in the last 10 years in the field of radio-detection of cosmic-ray air showers in the MHz range. All results from all experiments cannot be reported here so that I will focus on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Benoît Revenu

The advent of the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) necessitates the development of a powerful framework for the analysis of radio measurements of cosmic ray air showers. As AERA performs "radio-hybrid" measurements of air shower radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , E. J. Ahn , I. F. M. Albuquerque , D. Allard , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , J. Alvarez Castillo , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , M. Ambrosio , A. Aminaei , L. Anchordoqui , S. Andringa , T. Antičić , C. Aramo , E. Arganda , F. Arqueros , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , M. Ave , M. Avenier , G. Avila , T. Bäcker , M. Balzer , K. B. Barber , A. F. Barbosa , R. Bardenet , S. L. C. Barroso , B. Baughman , J. J. Beatty , B. R. Becker , K. H. Becker , J. A. Bellido , S. BenZvi , C. Berat , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , F. Blanco , M. Blanco , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , R. Bonino , N. Borodai , J. Brack , P. Brogueira , W. C. Brown , R. Bruijn , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , R. E. Burton , K. S. Caballero-Mora , L. Caramete , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , R. Cester , J. Chauvin , A. Chiavassa , J. A. Chinellato , A. Chou , J. Chudoba , R. W. Clay , M. R. Coluccia , R. Conceição , F. Contreras , H. Cook , M. J. Cooper , J. Coppens , A. Cordier , U. Cotti , S. Coutu , C. E. Covault , A. Creusot , A. Criss , J. Cronin , A. Curutiu , S. Dagoret-Campagne , R. Dallier , S. Dasso , K. Daumiller , B. R. Dawson , R. M. de Almeida , M. De Domenico , C. De Donato , S. J. de Jong , G. De La Vega , W. J. M. de Mello Junior , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , I. De Mitri , V. de Souza , K. D. de Vries , G. Decerprit , L. del Peral , O. Deligny , H. Dembinski , A. Denkiewicz , C. Di Giulio , J. C. Diaz , M. L. Díaz Castro , P. N. Diep , C. Dobrigkeit , J. C. D'Olivo , P. N. Dong , A. Dorofeev , J. C. dos Anjos , M. T. Dova , D. D'Urso , I. Dutan , J. Ebr , R. Engel , M. Erdmann , C. O. Escobar , A. Etchegoyen , P. Facal San Luis , H. Falcke , G. Farrar , A. C. Fauth , N. Fazzini , A. P. Ferguson , A. Ferrero , B. Fick , A. Filevich , A. Filipčič , S. Fliescher , C. E. Fracchiolla , E. D. Fraenkel , U. 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Rosado , T. Rossler , M. Roth , B. Rouillé-d'Orfeuil , E. Roulet , A. C. Rovero , C. Rühle , F. Salamida , H. Salazar , G. Salina , F. Sánchez , M. Santander , C. E. Santo , E. Santos , E. M. Santos , F. Sarazin , S. Sarkar , R. Sato , N. Scharf , V. Scherini , H. Schieler , P. Schiffer , A. Schmidt , F. Schmidt , T. Schmidt , O. Scholten , H. Schoorlemmer , J. Schovancova , P. Schovánek , F. Schroeder , S. Schulte , D. Schuster , S. J. Sciutto , M. Scuderi , A. Segreto , D. Semikoz , M. Settimo , A. Shadkam , R. C. Shellard , I. Sidelnik , G. Sigl , A. Śmiałkowski , R. Šmída , G. R. Snow , P. Sommers , J. Sorokin , H. Spinka , R. Squartini , J. Stapleton , J. Stasielak , M. Stephan , A. Stutz , F. Suarez , T. Suomijärvi , A. D. Supanitsky , T. Šuša , M. S. Sutherland , J. Swain , Z. Szadkowski , M. Szuba , A. Tamashiro , A. Tapia , O. Taşcău , R. Tcaciuc , D. Tegolo , N. T. Thao , D. Thomas , J. Tiffenberg , C. Timmermans , D. K. Tiwari , W. Tkaczyk , C. J. Todero Peixoto , B. Tomé , A. Tonachini , P. Travnicek , D. B. Tridapalli , G. Tristram , E. Trovato , M. Tueros , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Urban , J. F. Valdés Galicia , I. Valiño , L. Valore , A. M. van den Berg , B. Vargas Cárdenas , J. R. Vázquez , R. A. Vázquez , D. Veberič , V. Verzi , M. Videla , L. Villaseñor , H. Wahlberg , P. Wahrlich , O. Wainberg , D. Warner , A. A. Watson , M. Weber , K. Weidenhaupt , A. Weindl , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , G. Wieczorek , L. Wiencke , B. Wilczyńska , H. Wilczyński , M. Will , C. Williams , T. Winchen , L. Winders , M. G. Winnick , M. Wommer , B. Wundheiler , T. Yamamoto , P. Younk , G. Yuan , B. Zamorano , E. Zas , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik , I. Zaw , A. Zepeda , M. Ziolkowski

High-energy cosmic rays impinging onto the atmosphere of the Earth initiate extensive air showers. With the LOFAR radio telescope and the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) at the Pierre Auger Observatory radio emission from air showers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Jörg R. Hörandel

This proceeding gives a summary of the current status and open questions of the radio technique for cosmic-ray air showers, assuming that the reader is already familiar with the principles. It includes recent results of selected experiments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Frank G. Schröder

With the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) located at the Pierre Auger Observatory, radio emission of extensive air showers is observed. To exploit the physics potential of AERA, electric-field amplitude measurements with the radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Florian Briechle

Solar activity events release vast amounts of energy, including radio waves, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, and energetic particles, which interact with the ionosphere of the Earth and can disrupt radio wave propagation, affecting radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 R. M. de Almeida

The accurate determination of the absolute energy scale in cosmic ray measurements is both a challenging and fundamentally important task. We present how measurements of radio pulses from extensive air showers with the Auger Engineering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Tim Huege

As part of the ongoing AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we are deploying short aperiodic loaded loop antennas measuring radio signals from extensive air showers in the 30-80 MHz band on each of the 1,660 surface detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Tim Huege

Radio-detection is a mature technique that has gained large momentum over the past decades. Its physical detection principle is mainly driven by the electromagnetic part of the shower, and is therefore not too sensitive to uncertainties on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Simon Chiche , Valentin Decoene

By analysing the radio emissions from air showers using interferometry, we can estimate their properties. In this contribution, we apply interferometry to reconstruct air-shower parameters based on measurements taken with the Auger…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Pim van Dillen

The southern Auger Observatory provides an excellent test bed to study the radio detection of extensive air showers as an alternative, cost-effective, and accurate tool for cosmic-ray physics. The data from the radio setup can be correlated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 A. M. van den Berg

Digital radio arrays have become an effective tool to measure air showers at energies around and above 100 PeV. Compared to optical techniques, the radio technique is not restricted to clear nights. Thanks to recent progress on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Frank G. Schröder

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector for observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) (above the energy of $10^{17}$ eV). It consists of a Fluorescence Detector (FD) and an array of particle detectors known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-20 Dariusz Góra

The Pierre Auger Observatory has recently undergone a major upgrade, called AugerPrime, tailored to answer the current most pressing questions in the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection. The AugerPrime upgrade consists of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Martina Boháčová

The FPGA/NIOS FIR filter based on linear prediction (LP) to suppress radio frequency interference (RFI) has been installed in several radio stations in the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) experiment. AERA observes coherent radio…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Zbigniew Szadkowski , D. Głas , C. Timmermans , T. Wijnen

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

We describe the experimental setup and the results of RAuger, a small radio-antenna array, consisting of three fully autonomous and self-triggered radio-detection stations, installed close to the center of the Surface Detector (SD) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-14 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , S. Acounis , D. Charrier , T. Garçon , C. Rivière , P. Stassi

Detection of (ultra-) high-energy cosmic rays with the use of radio frequency emission from extensive air showers has been proven as complimentary to existing ground array detection techniques. Great progress has been made in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sijbrand de Jong