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The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) aims at the detection of air showers induced by high-energy cosmic rays. As an extension of the Pierre Auger Observatory, it measures complementary information to the particle detectors, fluorescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ewa M. Holt

The Pierre Auger Collaboration is exploring the potential of radio-detection techniques to measure the extensive air showers. The main advantage of these setups is the possibility to cover a large area with no atmospheric attenuation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 K. Louedec

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 been designed to investigate the most energetic particles known, the ultra high energy cosmic rays. The observatory, covering an area of 3000 km^2, combines two different detection techniques to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ruben Conceição

The Auger Surface Detector consists of a large array of water Cherenkov detector tanks each with a volume of 12,000 liters, for the detection of high energy cosmic rays. The accuracy in the measurement of the integrated signal amplitude of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 M. Ave , P. Bauleo , A. Castellina , A. Chou , J. L. Harton , R. Knapil , G. Navarra

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

While the Pierre Auger Observatory is a very successful instrument for ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) detection, it is increasingly used as part of various types of multi-messenger searches, in which it contributes with searches for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Michael Schimp

In the framework of the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, a new high voltage module is being employed for the power supply of the 1-inch photomultiplier added to each water-Cherenkov detector of the surface array with the aim of…

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a facility designed for the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Observatory combines two different types of detectors: a surface array of 1600 water Cherenkov stations placed on a 1.5 km triangular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Petr Necesal

The Pierre Auger Observatory has collected data for more than 15 years, accumulating the world's largest exposure to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The energy spectrum of the UHECRs has been measured up to $10^{20.2}$ eV, and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Antonella Castellina

The Pierre Auger Observatory, the world's largest observatory of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), offers a unique insight into the properties of hadronic interactions occurring in air showers at energies well above those reached at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Jan Ebr

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

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector of ultra--high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It uses an array of fluorescence telescopes and particle detectors at the ground to obtain detailed measurements of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Dariusz Gora

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with energies above 10$^{18.5}$ eV. Currently the first part of the Observatory nears completion in the southern hemisphere in Argentina. One…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 B. Keilhauer

Astroparticles offer a new path for research in the field of particle physics, allowing investigations at energies above those accesible with accelerators. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays can be studied via the observation of the showers they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Analisa Mariazzi

The Pierre Auger Observatory consists of 1660 water-Cherenkov detectors (WCDs) and 27 fluorescence telescopes, covering a surface of 3000 km2 in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. After almost two decades, Auger Phase I has ended the data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Paula Gina Isar

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) consists of 153 autonomous antenna stations deployed over 17 km^2 to measure the radio emission from extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays with energies between 0.1 and 10 EeV in the 30 to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Marvin Gottowik

The detection of extensive air showers using radio antennas has evolved into a mature technique, complementing particle detector arrays by providing sensitivity to the longitudinal development of the showers and enabling an independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Stef Verpoest , Carmen Merx , Benjamin Flaggs

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above $10^{17}$ eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy cosmic rays using a hybrid technique that exploits the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Abdul Halim , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , I. Allekotte , K. Almeida Cheminant , A. Almela , R. Aloisio , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , J. Ammerman Yebra , G. A. Anastasi , L. Anchordoqui , B. Andrada , L. Andrade Dourado , S. Andringa , L. Apollonio , C. Aramo , P. R. Araújo Ferreira , E. Arnone , J. C. Arteaga Velázquez , P. Assis , G. Avila , E. Avocone , A. Bakalova , F. Barbato , A. Bartz Mocellin , C. Berat , M. E. Bertaina , G. Bhatta , M. Bianciotto , P. L. Biermann , V. Binet , K. Bismark , T. Bister , J. Biteau , J. Blazek , C. Bleve , J. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , N. Borodai , J. Brack , P. G. Brichetto Orchera , F. L. Briechle , A. Bueno , S. Buitink , M. Buscemi , M. Büsken , A. Bwembya , K. S. Caballero-Mora , S. Cabana-Freire , L. Caccianiga , F. Campuzano , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , F. Catalani , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , M. Cerda , B. 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The Pierre Auger Observatory is a detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It consists of a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level and a fluorescence detector to measure the development of air showers in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Pierre Auger Collaboration