Speaker
Maximilien Melissas
(KIT, IEKP)
Description
The first phase of the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) has been deployed in the fall of 2010. Currently, the array consists currently of 24 stations distributed over an area of 0.5 km$^2$. AERA has two different objectives. The first one is to measure cosmic-ray events and to provide the necessary data to improve our understanding of radio emission from air showers. The second objective is to develop and test the instrumentation for the next generation of MHz radio-detection setups for air shower studies based on self-triggering methods.
With this first phase of AERA self-triggered events have been registered and were used for physics analysis. Moreover, various types of hardware and different trigger strategies for the next stages including cross-triggering with the surface detector are being tested with the current setup.
The talk will firstly report the current status of the detector. Then, it will focus on the available events and show comparisons between measured data and simulations and summarize the ongoing analyses. Finally we will discuss the plan for the next phase in 2012-2013.
Author
Maximilien Melissas
(KIT, IEKP)
Co-author
Collaboration Pierre Auger
(Auger)
