Status of the Lunar Detection Mode for Cosmic Particles of LOFAR

Autor:	Winchen, T., Bonardi, A., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Falcke, H., Hare, B. M., Hörandel, J. R., Mitra, P., Mulrey, K., Nelles, A., Rachen, J. P., Rossetto, L., Schellart, P., Scholten, O., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Trinh, T. N. G.
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1742-6596/1181/1/012077
Popis:	Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentially increases the available collective area for ZeV scale particles by several orders of magnitude compared to current experiments. The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is the largest radio telescope operating in the optimum frequency regime for this technique. In this contribution, we report on the status of the implementation of the lunar detection mode at LOFAR. Comment: Proceedings of the 26th Extended European Cosmic Ray Symposium (ECRS), Barnaul/Belokurikha, 2018
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08472 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv