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astro-ph.IM2017

The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part III: Searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +125

Papers on the searches for dark matter and exotics, neutrino oscillations and detector calibration, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, Sou…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

GIGAS: a set of microwave sensor arrays to detect molecular bremsstrahlung radiation from extensive air shower

Romain Gaïor, Imen Al Samarai, Corinne Bérat +14

We present the GIGAS (Gigahertz Identification of Giant Air Shower) microwave radio sensor arrays of the EASIER project (Extensive Air Shower Identification with Electron Radiomete…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 18 cited

Spectral Calibration of the Fluorescence Telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +403

We present a novel method to measure precisely the relative spectral response of the fluorescence telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We used a portable light source based…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

Signal Yields of keV Electronic Recoils and Their Discrimination from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116

We report on the response of liquid xenon to low energy electronic recoils below 15 keV from beta decays of tritium at drift fields of 92 V/cm, 154 V/cm and 366 V/cm using the XENO…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 264 cited

The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +142

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out o…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 11 cited

Performance of the upgraded H.E.S.S. cameras

S. Bonnefoy, T. Ashton, M. Backes +37

The 14 years old cameras of the H.E.S.S. 12-m telescopes have been upgraded in 2015/2016, with the goals of reducing the system failure rate, reducing the dead time and improving t…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 10 cited

SCALA: In-situ calibration for Integral Field Spectrographs

S. Lombardo, D. Küsters, M. Kowalski +39

The scientific yield of current and future optical surveys is increasingly limited by systematic uncertainties in the flux calibration. This is the case for Type Ia supernova (SN I…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 23 cited

Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +115

In this paper, we describe the XENON100 data analyses used to assess the target-intrinsic background sources radon (Rn), thoron (Rn) and krypton (Kr). We det…

astro-ph.IM2017

Hardware and software architecture of the upgraded H.E.S.S. cameras

S. Klepser, T. Ashton, M. Backes +37

In 2015/16, the photomultiplier cameras of the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes CT1-4 have undergone a major upgrade. The entire electronics has been replaced, using NECTAr chips for…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 124 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: Survey requirements and mission design

J. Delabrouille, P. de Bernardis, F. R. Bouchet +200

Future observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation have the potential to answer some of the most fundamental questions of modern physics and cosmology. In this p…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 43 cited

Exploring Cosmic Origins with CORE: The Instrument

P. de Bernardis, P. A. R. Ade, J. J. A. Baselmans +126

We describe a space-borne, multi-band, multi-beam polarimeter aiming at a precise and accurate measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The instrument is…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Impact of atmospheric effects on the energy reconstruction of air showers observed by the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Atmospheric conditions, such as the pressure (P), temperature (T) or air density (), affect the development of extended air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 17 cited

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection

Olivier Martineau-Huynh, Mauricio Bustamante, Washington Carvalho +19

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned array of ~200 000 radio antennas deployed over ~200 000 km2 in a mountainous site. It aims primarly at detecting h…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 60 cited

Performance of a continuously rotating half-wave plate on the POLARBEAR telescope

Satoru Takakura, Mario Aguilar, Yoshiki Akiba +50

A continuously rotating half-wave plate (CRHWP) is a promising tool to improve the sensitivity to large angular scales in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurement…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 35 cited

Calibration of the Logarithmic-Periodic Dipole Antenna (LPDA) Radio Stations at the Pierre Auger Observatory using an Octocopter

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +402

An in-situ calibration of a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna with a frequency coverage of 30 MHz to 80 MHz is performed. Such antennas are part of a radio station system used fo…