皮埃尔·奥杰天文台的中央激光设施
天体物理学
2015-04-02 v1
摘要
中央激光设施位于阿根廷皮埃尔·奥杰天文台的近中心位置。它配备了一台紫外激光器和光学系统,将校准的脉冲光束导向天空。该光束散射的光在奥杰光学探测器中产生轨迹,这些探测器通常记录来自宇宙线大气簇射的氮荧光轨迹。中央激光设施提供了一个“测试光束”,用于研究大气性质和荧光探测器的性能。激光可通过光纤同时向最近的地面探测器水箱发送光信号,以进行混合计时分析。我们描述了该设施并展示了其多种用途的示例。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507334,
title = {The Central Laser Facility at the Pierre Auger Observatory},
author = {F. Arqueros and J. Bellido and C. Covault and D. D'Urso and C. Di Giulio and P. Facal and B. Fick and F. Guarino and M. Malek and J. A. J. Matthews and J. Matthews and R. Meyhandan and M. Monasor and M. Mostafa and P. Petrinca and M. Roberts and P. Sommers and P. Travnicek and L. Valore and V. Verzi and L. Wiencke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507334},
year = {2015}
}
备注
4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to 29th ICRC Pune India