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Publications (102)

astro-ph.HE2024

Simulation of radio signals from cosmic-ray cascades in air and ice as observed by in-ice Askaryan radio detectors

Simon De Kockere, Dieder Van den Broeck, Uzair Abdul Latif +4

A new generation of neutrino observatories will search for PeV-EeV neutrinos interacting in the ice by detecting radio pulses. Extended air showers propagating into the ice will fo…

astro-ph.HE2010

REAS3: Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers using an "end-point" formalism

Marianne Ludwig, Tim Huege

In recent years, the freely available Monte Carlo code REAS for modelling radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has evolved to include the full complexity of air shower physic…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2024)

Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Teresa Bister +121

This is an index of the contributions by the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino De…

astro-ph.HE2026

Anomalous Air Showers and What They Reveal About Hadronic Interactions and Cosmic-ray Masses

Stijn Buitink, Vital De Henau, Sjoerd Bouma +28

The identification of the sources and acceleration mechanisms of cosmic rays require precise measurements of their mass composition. Currently, the most reliable method is to measu…

astro-ph.IM2017

Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays -- Achievements and Future Potential

Tim Huege

When modern efforts for radio detection of cosmic rays started about a decade ago, hopes were high but the true potential was unknown. Since then, we have achieved a detailed under…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Measuring the locations and properties of VHF sources emitted from an aircraft flying through high clouds

Olaf Scholten, Marten Lourens, Stijn Buitink +11

We show that it is possible to locate the few places on the body of an airplane, while it is flying through high clouds, from which broad-band, pulsed, radiation is emitted at Very…

astro-ph.HE2016

Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +447

We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Au…

astro-ph.IM2017

Radiowave Detection of Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays

Tim Huege, Dave Besson

Radio waves, perhaps because they are uniquely transparent in our terrestrial atmosphere, as well as the cosmos beyond, or perhaps because they are macroscopic, so the basic instru…

astro-ph.HE2017

Modelling uncertainty of the radiation energy emitted by extensive air showers

Marvin Gottowik, Christian Glaser, Tim Huege +1

Recently, the energy determination of extensive air showers using radio emission has been shown to be both precise and accurate. In particular, radio detection offers the opportuni…

astro-ph.HE2024

Generalising template synthesis of EAS radio emission to other geometries

Mitja Desmet, Stijn Buitink, Tim Huege

Over the last few decades, radio detection has become one of the standard techniques to study high-energy cosmic-ray air showers. For the purpose of analysing the data, we heavily…

astro-ph.HE2015

Measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum above eV using inclined events detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +461

A measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum for energies exceeding eV is presented, which is based on the analysis of showers with zenith angles greater than $60^{\…

astro-ph.IM2018

A Rotationally Symmetric Lateral Distribution Function for Radio Emission from Inclined Air Showers

Tim Huege, Lukas Brenk, Felix Schlüter

Radio detection of inclined air showers is currently receiving great attention. To exploit the potential, a suitable event reconstruction needs to be developed. The first step in t…

astro-ph.IM2025

Electric field reconstruction with three polarizations for the radio detection of ultra-high energy particles

Kewen Zhang, Tim Huege, Ramesh Koirala +6

Accurate reconstruction of the electric field produced by Extensive Air Showers from the signals recorded by the antennas is essential for the radio detection technique, as the key…

astro-ph.IM2021

Expected performance of interferometric air-shower measurements with radio antennas

Felix Schlüter, Tim Huege

Interferometric measurements of the radio emission of extensive air showers allow reconstructing cosmic-ray properties. A recent simulation study with an idealised detector promise…

astro-ph2005

Fluctuations in the EAS radio signal derived with improved Monte Carlo simulations based on CORSIKA

Tim Huege

Cosmic ray air showers are known to emit pulsed radio emission which can be understood as coherent geosynchrotron radiation arising from the deflection of electron-positron pairs i…

astro-ph.IM2024

Parameterization of the frequency spectrum of radio emission in the 30-80 MHz band from inclined air showers

Sara Martinelli, Felix Schlueter, Tim Huege

To exploit the wealth of information carried by the short transient radio pulses from air showers, the frequency spectra of the signals have to be investigated. Here, we study the…

astro-ph2005

Simulations and parametrisation of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

Cosmic ray air showers are known to emit pulsed radio emission at frequencies around a few tens of MHz. Accompanying the experimental efforts of the LOPES project, situated at the…

astro-ph.HE2011

The endpoint formalism for the calculation of electromagnetic radiation and its applications in astroparticle physics

Tim Huege, Clancy W. James, Heino Falcke +1

We present the "endpoint" formalism for the calculation of electromagnetic radiation and illustrate its applications in astroparticle physics. We use the formalism to explain why t…

physics.ao-ph2021

Time resolved 3Dinterferometric imaging of a section of a negative leader with LOFAR

Olaf Scholten, Brian Hare, Joe Dwyer +6

We have developed a three dimensional (3D) interferometric beamforming technique for imaging lightning flashes using Very-High Frequency (VHF) radio data recorded from several hund…

astro-ph.IM2018

Towards a Next Generation of CORSIKA: A Framework for the Simulation of Particle Cascades in Astroparticle Physics

Ralph Engel, Dieter Heck, Tim Huege +6

A large scientific community depends on the precise modelling of complex processes in particle cascades in various types of matter. These models are used most prevalently in cosmic…

astro-ph.IM2017

Overview of lunar detection of ultra-high energy particles and new plans for the SKA

Clancy W. James, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Justin D. Bray +12

The lunar technique is a method for maximising the collection area for ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic ray and neutrino searches. The method uses either ground-based radio telescope…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Radio Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory -- status and expected performance

Tim Huege

As part of the ongoing AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we are deploying short aperiodic loaded loop antennas measuring radio signals from extensive air showers…

astro-ph.IM2024

Broad-band, high-gain, low-frequency Antennas for Radio Detection of Earth-skimming Tau Neutrinos

Tim Huege, Oliver Krömer

A promising approach to detect high-energy tau neutrinos is through the measurement of impulsive radio emission from horizontal air showers initiated in the Earth's atmosphere. Obs…

astro-ph.HE2018

Determination of the absolute energy scale of extensive air showers via radio emission: systematic uncertainty of underlying first-principle calculations

Marvin Gottowik, Christian Glaser, Tim Huege +1

Recently, the energy determination of extensive air showers using radio emission has been shown to be both precise and accurate. In particular, radio detection offers the opportuni…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Bayesian Method for Air-Shower Reconstruction using Information Field Theory

Karen Terveer, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink +12

The radio detection of extensive air showers provides a powerful method for studying the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) offers unprecedentedly d…

astro-ph.HE2023

Signal model and event reconstruction for the radio detection of inclined air showers

Felix Schlüter, Tim Huege

The detection of inclined air showers (zenith angles ) with kilometer-spaced radio-antenna arrays allows measuring cosmic rays at ultra-high energies ($E \lesss…

astro-ph.HE2023

Simulating radio emission from air showers with CORSIKA 8

Nikolaos Karastathis, Remy Prechelt, Juan Ammerman-Yebra +2

CORSIKA 8 is a new framework for air shower simulations implemented in modern C++17, based on past experience with existing codes like CORSIKA 7. The flexible and modular structure…

astro-ph2002

Radio-Emission from Cosmic Ray Air-Showers - A Theoretical Perspective for LOPES

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

High-energy cosmic ray air-showers have been known for over 30 years to emit strong radio pulses in the regime between a few and several 100 MHz (Allan 1971). To date, however, a t…

astro-ph.HE2017

Towards a fast and precise forward model for air shower radio simulation

David Butler, Tim Huege, Olaf Scholten

The radio detection method for cosmic rays relies on coherent emission from electrons and positrons which is beamed in a narrow cone along the shower axis. Currently the only mod-…

astro-ph.IM2016

The lunar Askaryan technique with the Square Kilometre Array

Clancy W. James, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Justin D. Bray +12

The lunar Askaryan technique is a method to study the highest-energy cosmic rays, and their predicted counterparts, the ultra-high-energy neutrinos. By observing the Moon with a ra…

astro-ph.HE2016

Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +448

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. These observations are compared…

astro-ph2003

Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers: Coherent Geosynchrotron Radiation

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

Cosmic ray air showers have been known for over 30 years to emit pulsed radio emission in the frequency range from a few to a few hundred MHz, an effect that offers great opportuni…

astro-ph.HE2026

Using SKA-Low to Detect PeV Gamma-rays from Galactic Sources

Anna Nelles, Philipp Laub, Haoning He +28

Detecting so called PeVatrons is considered one of the prime goals of -ray astronomy. PeVatrons are astrophysical objects in the Galaxy that are sources of cosmic rays exceedin…

astro-ph.IM2025

Signal Model and Energy Reconstruction for the Radio Detection of Inclined Air Showers in the 50-200 MHz Frequency Band

Lukas Gülzow, Ralph Engel, Tim Huege +2

The radio emission of cosmic-ray air-showers changes significantly depending on parameters like signal frequency, magnetic field configuration and observing altitude. We use CoREAS…

astro-ph.IM2020

Refractive displacement of the radio-emission footprint of inclined air showers simulated with CoREAS

Felix Schlüter, Marvin Gottowik, Tim Huege +1

The footprint of radio emission from extensive air showers is known to exhibit asymmetries due to the superposition of geomagnetic and charge-excess radiation. For inclined air sho…

astro-ph.IM2025

Neural Network for Simulating Radio Emission from Extensive Air Showers

Pranav Sampathkumar, Tim Huege, Andreas Haungs +1

Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the…

astro-ph.IM2026

Interferometric Analysis of Air-shower Radio Emission in the Near Field with an Information Field Theory Approach

Keito Watanabe, Karen Terveer, Sjoerd Bouma +29

Current reconstruction techniques for air-shower radio emission generated by cosmic rays have shown great success, having been applied to several radio detectors over the last deca…

astro-ph.HE2025

Validation of straight-line signal propagation for radio signal of very inclined cosmic ray air showers

Dieder Van den Broeck, Uzair Abdul Latif, Stijn Buitink +2

An ongoing challenge for radio-based detectors of high-energy cosmic particles is the accurate description of radio signal propagation in natural nonuniform media. For radio signal…

astro-ph.HE2024

Proof of principle for template synthesis approach for the radio emission from vertical extensive air showers

Mitja Desmet, Stijn Buitink, Tim Huege +3

The radio detection technique of cosmic ray air showers has gained renewed interest in the last two decades. While the radio experiments are very cost-effective to deploy, the Mont…

astro-ph.HE2010

REAS3: A revised implementation of the geosynchrotron model for radio emission from air showers

Marianne Ludwig, Tim Huege

Over the past years, the freely available Monte Carlo-code REAS which simulates radio emission from air showers based on the geosynchrotron model, was used regularly for comparison…

astro-ph.IM2023

Study of the Uncertainties of the Galactic Radio Background as a Calibration Source for Radio Arrays

Max Büsken, Tomáš Fodran, Tim Huege

The indirect detection of cosmic rays via the radio signal of extensive air showers is gaining a lot of ground. Many new arrays of radio antennas are under construction or in the p…

astro-ph.IM2019

Symmetrizing the signal distribution of radio emission from inclined air showers

Tim Huege, Felix Schlueter, Lukas Brenk

Radio detection of inclined air showers currently receives special attention. It can be performed with very sparse antenna arrays and yields a pure measurement of the electromagnet…

astro-ph.IM2026

Towards the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): the GRANDProto300 and GRAND@Auger prototypes

GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Álvarez-Muniz, Rafael Alves Batista +118

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed multi-messenger observatory of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) particles of cosmic origin. Its main goal is to find the l…

astro-ph.IM2023

Parallel processing of radio signals and detector arrays in CORSIKA 8

A. Augusto Alves, Nikolaos Karastathis, Tim Huege

This contribution describes some recent advances in the parallelization of the generation and processing of radio signals emitted by particle showers in CORSIKA 8. CORSIKA 8 is a M…

astro-ph.IM2025

Ideas and Requirements for the Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS)

Markus Ahlers, Ingo Allekotte, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz +136

After a successful kick-off meeting in 2021. two workshops in 2022 and 2023 on the future Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS) focused mainly on a straw man design of the detector…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2025)

Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +133

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…

astro-ph.HE2010

The LOPES experiment - recent results, status and perspectives

Tim Huege

The LOPES experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has been taking radio data in the frequency range from 40 to 80 MHz in coincidence with the KASCADE-Grande air shower…

astro-ph.IM2023

Simulations of cross media showers with CORSIKA 8

Juan Ammerman-Yebra, Uzair Abdul Latif, Nikolaos Karastathis +2

The CORSIKA 8 project aims to develop a versatile and modern framework for particle shower simulations that meets the new needs of experiments and addresses the caveats of existing…

astro-ph.HE2023

The particle-shower simulation code CORSIKA 8

Tim Huege, Maximilian Reininghaus

CORSIKA up to version 7 has been the most-used Monte Carlo code for simulating extensive air showers for more than 20 years. Due to its monolithic, Fortran-based software design an…

astro-ph.IM2021

Reconstruction of radio signals from air-showers with autoencoder

Pavel Bezyazeekov, Nikolay Budnev, Oleg Fedorov +21

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a digital antenna array (63 antennas distributed over 1km^2) co-located with the TAIGA observatory in Eastern Siberia. Tunka-Rex measures r…

astro-ph2004

Simulations of Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Template synthesis approach for radio emission from extensive air showers

Mitja Desmet, Stijn Buitink, David Butler +3

We present a novel way to synthesise the radio emission from extensive air showers. It is a hybrid approach which uses a single microscopic Monte-Carlo simulation to generate the r…

astro-ph.HE2021

CORSIKA 8 -- Contributions to the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Berlin Germany (ICRC 2021)

Jean-Marco Alameddine, Johannes Albrecht, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz +39

Compilation of the six contributions to the ICRC conference 2021 by the CORSIKA 8 Collaboration. The status of the project is illustrated. In particular, the secondary hadron as we…

astro-ph.HE2015

An improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +462

Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches throu…

astro-ph.IM2013

The renaissance of radio detection of cosmic rays

Tim Huege

Nearly 50 years ago, the first radio signals from cosmic ray air showers were detected. After many successful studies, however, research ceased not even 10 years later. Only a deca…

astro-ph.IM2024

Next-Generation Triggering: A Novel Event-Level Approach

Jelena Köhler, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Pablo Correa +6

Large-scale cosmic-ray detectors like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) are pushing the boundaries of our ability to identify air shower events. Existing trigger…

astro-ph.IM2024

Targeting 100-PeV tau neutrino detection with an array of phased and high-gain reconstruction antennas

Stephanie Wissel, Andrew Zeolla, Cosmin Deaconu +20

Neutrinos at ultrahigh energies can originate both from interactions of cosmic rays at their acceleration sites and through cosmic-ray interactions as they propagate through the un…

astro-ph.IM2019

A Surface Radio Array for the Enhancement of IceTop and its Science Prospects

Aswathi Balagopal V., Andreas Haungs, Thomas Huber +6

Radio detection of air showers in the current era has progressed immensely to effectively extract the properties of these air showers. Primary cosmic rays with energies of hundreds…

astro-ph2003

Radio Emission From EAS - Coherent Geosynchrotron Radiation

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

Extensive air showers (EAS) have been known for over 30 years to emit pulses of radio emission at frequencies from a few to a few hundred MHz, an effect that offers great opportuni…

physics.data-an2024

Electric Field Reconstruction with Information Field Theory

Simon Strähnz, Tim Huege, Philipp Frank +1

Reconstructing the electric field from the measured voltages in an antenna, unfolding the antenna response, comes with several problems. Due to the noisiness of the signal it is of…

astro-ph.IM2024

GRANDlib: A simulation pipeline for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND)

GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +112

The operation of upcoming ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino radio-detection experiments, like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), poses signif…

astro-ph.HE2025

Generative Neural Network for Simulating Radio Emission from Extensive Air Showers

Pranav Sampathkumar, Tim Huege, Andreas Haungs +1

Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the…

astro-ph.IM2024

Modelling the Radio Emission of Inclined Air Showers in the 50-200 MHz Frequency Band for GRAND

Lukas Gülzow, Tim Huege, Kumiko Kotera +3

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a distributed, sparse ground antenna array designed to detect the radio emission from highly inclined extensive air showers…

astro-ph.IM2021

Expected performance of air-shower measurements with the radio-interferometric technique

Felix Schlüter, Tim Huege

Interferometric measurements with arrays of radio antennas are a powerful and widely used technique in astronomy. Recently, this technique has been revisited for the reconstruction…

astro-ph.HE2013

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2013)

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +495

Contributions of the Pierre Auger Collaboration to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013

astro-ph.HE2014

A parameterization for the radio emission of air showers as predicted by CoREAS simulations and applied to LOFAR measurements

Anna Nelles, Stijn Buitink, Heino Falcke +3

Measuring radio emission from air showers provides excellent opportunities to directly measure all air shower properties, including the shower development. To exploit this in large…

astro-ph.HE2019

Universality and template synthesis of cosmic ray air shower radio emission

David Butler, Tim Huege, Ralph Engel +1

Accurate prediction of the radio emission from cosmic ray air showers relies on computationally demanding Monte Carlo simulations such as CoREAS. We aim to expedite this process vi…

astro-ph.HE2016

Simulation of Radiation Energy Release in Air Showers

Christian Glaser, Martin Erdmann, Jörg R. Hörandel +2

A simulation study of the energy released by extensive air showers in the form of MHz radiation is performed using the CoREAS simulation code. We develop an efficient method to ext…

astro-ph.EP2026

Unveiling the Mysteries of Lightning: Exploring its fundamental Physical Processes with SKA-LOW

Brian M Hare, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink +15

Lightning is a surprisingly poorly understood phenomena. It consists of a wide variety of complex processes such as initiation, propagation, connection to ground, even emission of…

astro-ph.HE2025

Road map for the tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data

Johannes Albrecht, Julia Becker Tjus, Noah Behling +52

In high-energy and astroparticle physics, event generators play an essential role, even in the simplest data analyses. As analysis techniques become more sophisticated, e.g. based…

physics.ins-det2016

Nanosecond-level time synchronization of AERA using a beacon reference transmitter and commercial airplanes

Tim Huege

Radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers requires time synchronization of detectors on a nanosecond level, especially for advanced reconstruction algorithms based on the wavefront…

astro-ph.IM2022

Reconstructing inclined extensive air showers from radio measurements

Tim Huege, Felix Schlüter

We present a reconstruction algorithm for extensive air showers with zenith angles between 65 and 85 measured with radio antennas in the 30-80 MHz band. Our algorit…

astro-ph.IM2019

Reconstruction of air-shower measurements with AERA in the presence of pulsed radio-frequency interference

Tim Huege, Christoph B. Welling

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is situated in the Argentinian Pampa Amarilla, a location far away from large human settlements. Nevertheless, a strong background of pulse…

astro-ph.IM2025

Quantifying energy fluence and its uncertainty for radio emission from particle cascades in the presence of noise

Sara Martinelli, Tim Huege, Diego Ravignani +1

Measurements of radio signals induced by an astroparticle generating a cascade present a challenge because they are always superposed with an irreducible noise contribution. Quanti…

astro-ph.IM2019

Radio detection of cosmic rays with the Auger Engineering Radio Array

Tim Huege

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) complements the Pierre Auger Observatory with 150 radio-antenna stations measuring in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. With an instru…

astro-ph.IM2023

Air-Shower Radio Simulations -- Where we stand and where we go

Tim Huege

Simulations of the radio emission from extensive air showers have been key in establishing radio detection as a mature and competitive technique. In particular, microscopic Monte C…

astro-ph.IM2025

Determination of the energy scale of cosmic ray measurements using the Auger Engineering Radio Array

Tim Huege

The accurate determination of the absolute energy scale in cosmic ray measurements is both a challenging and fundamentally important task. We present how measurements of radio puls…

astro-ph.HE2025

SMIET: Fast and accurate synthesis of radio pulses from extensive air shower using simulated templates

Mitja Desmet, Keito Watanabe, Tim Huege +1

Interpreting the data from radio detectors for extensive air showers typically relies on Monte-Carlo based simulation codes, which, despite their accuracy are computationally expen…

astro-ph.HE2010

The convergence of EAS radio emission models and a detailed comparison of REAS3 and MGMR simulations

Tim Huege, Marianne Ludwig, Olaf Scholten +1

Over the previous decade, many approaches for the modelling of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers have been developed. However, there remained significant deviations betwee…

astro-ph.IM2023

Uncertainty study for the Galactic calibration of radio antenna arrays in astroparticle physics

Max Büsken, Tomáš Fodran, Tim Huege

In recent years, arrays of radio antennas operating in the MHz regime have shown great potential as detectors in astroparticle physics. In particular, they fulfill an important rol…

astro-ph.IM2025

Electric-Field Reconstruction for Radio Detection of Inclined Air Showers in Three Polarizations

Kewen Zhang, Lukas Gülzow, Tim Huege +7

Accurate reconstruction of the electric field produced by extensive air showers is essential for the radio-detection technique, as the key parameters of interest of the primary par…

astro-ph.HE2024

Loss of coherence and change in emission physics for radio emission from very inclined cosmic-ray air showers

Simon Chiche, Chao Zhang, Felix Schlüter +5

Next-generation radio experiments such as the Radio Detector of the upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory and the planned GRAND and BEACON arrays target the detection of ultra-high-ene…

physics.class-ph2011

General description of electromagnetic radiation processes based on instantaneous charge acceleration in `endpoints'

Clancy W. James, Heino Falcke, Tim Huege +1

We present a new methodology for calculating the electromagnetic radiation from accelerated charged particles. Our formulation --- the `endpoint formulation' --- combines numerous…

astro-ph.IM2023

Discussion about a Standard Definition of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for Radio Signals of ultra-high-energy Particles (ARENA2022)

Frank G. Schröder, Amy L. Connolly, Tim Huege +1

Signal-to-noise ratios are a widely used concept for astroparticle radio detectors, such as air-shower radio arrays for cosmic-ray measurements or detectors searching for radio sig…

astro-ph.HE2013

Full Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from extensive air showers with CoREAS

Tim Huege, Clancy W. James

CoREAS is a Monte Carlo simulation code for the calculation of radio emission from extensive air showers. It is based on the "endpoint formalism" for radiation from moving charges…

astro-ph.HE2026

Measuring High-Energy Cosmic Particles with the SKA

Tim Huege, Katharine Mulrey, Sjoerd Bouma +28

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays remain one of astrophysics' greatest unsolved mysteries. SKA-Low will be able to measure air showers initiated by cosmic rays with unprecedent…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II

Anna Bonaldi, Tyler L. Bourke, Philippa Hartley +45

Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II (AASKAII), written by our science community, outlines the transformative scientific advances that will be enabled by the SKA telescopes. In t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Applying template synthesis to the radio emission from air showers with generic geometries

Mitja Desmet, Stijn Buitink, Tim Huege

Studying high-energy cosmic-ray air showers through the radio emission produced by their secondary particles is a well-established technique. However, due to the increasing size an…

astro-ph.IM2017

Initial simulation study on high-precision radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum with SKA1-low

Anne Zilles, Stijn Buitink, Tim Huege

As LOFAR has shown, using a dense array of radio antennas for detecting extensive air showers initiated by cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere makes it possible to measure the de…

astro-ph2005

Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

As a basis for the interpretation of data gathered by LOPES and other experiments, we have carried out Monte Carlo simulations of geosynchrotron radio emission from cosmic ray air…

hep-ex2024

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023)

GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +96

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…

astro-ph.IM2024

Development of an Autonomous Detection-Unit Self-Trigger for GRAND

Pablo Correa, Jean-Marc Colley, Tim Huege +5

One of the major challenges for the radio detection of extensive air showers, as encountered by the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), is the requirement of an auton…

astro-ph.HE2016

Simulation of the Radiation Energy Release in Air Showers

Christian Glaser, Martin Erdmann, Jörg R. Hörandel +2

A simulation study of the energy released by extensive air showers in the form of MHz radiation is performed using the CoREAS simulation code. We develop an efficient method to ext…

astro-ph.HE2012

A detailed comparison of REAS3 and MGMR simulations for radio emission from EAS

Marianne Ludwig, Tim Huege, Olaf Scholten +1

In the last years, several models and simulations calculating the radio emission from cosmic ray air showers have been developed. However, a number of those made conflicting predic…

astro-ph.IM2017

Ultimate precision in cosmic-ray radio detection --- the SKA

Tim Huege, Justin D. Bray, Stijn Buitink +17

As of 2023, the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array will go online in Australia. It will constitute the largest and most powerful low-frequency radio-astronomical obse…

astro-ph2004

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers: Monte Carlo simulations

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

We present time-domain Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation. Our model takes into account the im…

astro-ph2005

Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers: simulation results and parametrization

Tim Huege, Heino Falcke

We have developed a sophisticated model of the radio emission from extensive air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation, providing a theoretical foundation for…

astro-ph.IM2017

Radio detection of extensive air showers

Tim Huege

Radio detection of extensive air showers initiated in the Earth's atmosphere has made tremendous progress in the last decade. Today, radio detection is routinely used in several co…

astro-ph.IM2025

Information Field Theory based Event Reconstruction for Cosmic Ray Radio Detectors

Simon Strähnz, Tim Huege, Torsten Enßlin +2

Detection of extensive air showers with radio antennas is an appealing technique in cosmic ray physics. However, because of the high level of measurement noise, current reconstruct…

astro-ph2006

Radio detection of cosmic ray air showers with LOPES

Tim Huege, the LOPES Collaboration

In the last few years, radio detection of cosmic ray air showers has experienced a true renaissance, becoming manifest in a number of new experiments and simulation efforts. In par…