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most citedIndication of anisotropy in arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through comparison to the flux pattern of extragalactic gamma-ray sources

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

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.IM2024★ 12 cited

Transient Classifiers for Fink: Benchmarks for LSST

B. M. O. Fraga, C. R. Bom, A. Santos +6

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to detect a few million transients per night, which will generate a live alert stream during the entire ten years of…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 16 cited

TOPz: Photometric redshifts for J-PAS

J. Laur, E. Tempel, A. Tamm +30

The importance of photometric galaxy redshift estimation is rapidly increasing with the development of specialised powerful observational facilities. We develop a new photometric r…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 24 cited

The LSST-DESC 3x2pt Tomography Optimization Challenge

Joe Zuntz, François Lanusse, Alex I. Malz +25

This paper presents the results of the Rubin Observatory Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) 3x2pt tomography challenge, which served as a first step toward optimizing the tom…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

Expediting DECam Multimessenger Counterpart Searches with Convolutional Neural Networks

Adam Shandonay, Robert Morgan, Keith Bechtol +11

Searches for counterparts to multimessenger events with optical imagers use difference imaging to detect new transient sources. However, even with existing artifact detection algor…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 49 cited

Data Release 2 of S-PLUS: accurate template-fitting based photometry covering 1000 square degrees in 12 optical filters

F. Almeida-Fernandes, L. Sampedro, F. R. Herpich +26

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is an ongoing survey of 9300 deg in the southern sky in a 12-band photometric system. This paper presents the seco…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +383

The Auger Muon Infill Ground Array (AMIGA) is part of the AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of particle counters buried 2.3 m underground next to the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The FRAM robotic telescope for atmospheric monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +377

FRAM (F/Photometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor) is a robotic telescope operated at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina for the purposes of atmospheric monitoring using stell…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 30 cited

Deep-Learning based Reconstruction of the Shower Maximum using the Water-Cherenkov Detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +370

The atmospheric depth of the air shower maximum is an observable commonly used for the determination of the nuclear mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

Calibration of the underground muon detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +370

To obtain direct measurements of the muon content of extensive air showers with energy above eV, the Pierre Auger Observatory is currently being equipped with an underg…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 21 cited

Design, upgrade and characterization of the silicon photomultiplier front-end for the AMIGA detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +357

AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) is an upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory to complement the study of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) by measuring the…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 30 cited

Reconstruction of Events Recorded with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +378

Cosmic rays arriving at Earth collide with the upper parts of the atmosphere, thereby inducing extensive air showers. When secondary particles from the cascade arrive at the ground…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

Studies on the response of a water-Cherenkov detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to atmospheric muons using an RPC hodoscope

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +375

Extensive air showers, originating from ultra-high energy cosmic rays, have been successfully measured through the use of arrays of water-Cherenkov detectors (WCDs). Sophisticated…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 43 cited

Data-driven estimation of the invisible energy of cosmic ray showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +389

The determination of the primary energy of extensive air showers using the fluorescence detection technique requires an estimation of the energy carried away by particles that do n…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 65 cited

Observation of inclined EeV air showers with the radio detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +392

With the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we have observed the radio emission from 561 extensive air showers with zenith angles between 60$^\ci…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1 cited

Infrared complex refractive index of astrophysical ices exposed to cosmic rays simulated in the laboratory

W. R. M. Rocha, S. Pilling, A. L. F. de Barros +3

In dense and cold regions of the interstellar medium (ISM), molecules may be adsorbed onto dust grains to form the ice mantles. Once formed, they can be processed by ionizing radia…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 2 cited

Mediatrix method for filamentation of objects in images

Clecio R. Bom, Martín Makler, Marcelo P. Albuquerque

We describe the Mediatrix filamentation method, an iterative procedure that decomposes image shapes in filaments over their intensity ridgeline along their main direction using per…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 95 cited

Radiolysis of ammonia-containing ices by energetic, heavy and highly charged ions inside dense astrophysical environments

S. Pilling, E. Seperuelo Duarte, E. F. da Silveira +4

Deeply inside dense molecular clouds and protostellar disks, the interstellar ices are protected from stellar energetic UV photons. However, X-rays and energetic cosmic rays can pe…