Conveners
Air Data Analysis & Tools 2
- Frank Schröder
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is currently the largest facility to measure radio emissions from extensive air showers. Located at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, it comprises 150 autonomous radio-detector stations, covering an area of 17 km$^2$, and measures radio waves in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. For the correct interpretation of data collected by AERA...
After more than 15 years of successful operation, the Pierre Auger Observatory is currently undergoing a major upgrade called AugerPrime. The aim is to study the mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Part of this upgrade consists in installing a Short Aperiodic Loaded Loop Antenna (SALLA) atop each of the 1660 water-Cherenkov detectors.
To obtain an absolute calibration for the...
Radio emissions from cosmic ray showers serve as an essential background signal for in-ice radio detectors in the polar regions. Furthermore, cosmic ray showers can also serve as calibration sources for in-ice radio detectors due to their relatively large flux. Thus, we have adapted CoREAS for simulating their radio signals in in-ice antennas. We present a novel way to upgrade CoREAS such that...