Pierre Auger 观测站的 Lidar 系统
天体物理学
2010-04-15 v2
摘要
阿根廷马尔阿尔的 Pierre Auger 观测站旨在研究能量超过 10^18 eV 的超高能宇宙射线的来源。探测器的能量校准基于四个空气荧光探测器系统。为获得可靠的荧光站的热力学信息，实验场址的大气条件在运行期间需要持续监测。观测站大气监测系统的一个组成部分是四个弹性散射激光站，分别位于四个荧光探测器位置。本文描述了该系统的设计、当前状态、标准操作程序及性能。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609063,
title = {The Lidar System of the Pierre Auger Observatory},
author = {S. Y. BenZvi and R. Cester and M. Chiosso and B. M. Connolly and A. Filipcic and B. Garcia and A. Grillo and F. Guarino and M. Horvat and M. Iarlori and C. Macolino and J. A. J. Matthews and D. Melo and R. Mussa and M. Mostafa and J. Pallota and S. Petrera and M. Prouza and V. Rizi and M. Roberts and J. R. Rodriguez Rojo and F. Salamida and M. Santander and G. Sequeiros and A. Tonachini and L. Valore and D. Veberic and S. Westerhoff and D. Zavrtanik and M. Zavrtanik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609063},
year = {2010}
}
备注
29 pages, 14 figures (6 color); minor changes, matches version accepted for publication in Nucl. Instr. Meth. A