Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic rays and Gamma Astronomy

Abstract

The paper is a script of a lecture given at the ISAPP-Baikal summer school in 2018. The lecture gives an overview of the Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic rays and Gamma Astronomy (TAIGA) facility including historical introduction, description of existing and future setups, and outreach and open data activities.

Lectures given at the ISAPP-Baikal Summer School 2018: Exploring the Universe through multiple messengers, 12-21 July 2018, Bol'shie Koty, Russia

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• Discovery of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Centre Ridge
• Observation of a Large-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above $8\times 10^{18}$ eV
• MASTER optical detection of the first LIGO/Virgo neutron stars merging GW170817
• KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays
• Master Robotic Net
• Radio detection of Cosmic-Ray Air Showers and High-Energy Neutrinos
• New facts about muon production in Extended Air Shower simulations
• A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 10^{17} - 10^{17.5} eV from radio observations
• Antennas for the Detection of Radio Emission Pulses from Cosmic-Ray induced Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
• Measurement of cosmic-ray air showers with the Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex)
• Physical conditions in potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays: Updated Hillas plot and radiation-loss constraints
• The HiSCORE concept for gamma-ray and cosmic-ray astrophysics beyond 10\,TeV
• Deciphering the Dipole Anisotropy of Galactic Cosmic Rays
• Radio measurements of the energy and the depth of the shower maximum of cosmic-ray air showers by Tunka-Rex
• Reconstruction of air-shower parameters for large-scale radio detectors using the lateral distribution
• The Technical Performance of the HEGRA System of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes
• A comparison of the cosmic-ray energy scales of Tunka-133 and KASCADE-Grande via their radio extensions Tunka-Rex and LOPES
• The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC: Granting Open Access to Astroparticle Physics Research Data

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• Estimation of aperture of the Tunka-Rex radio array for cosmic-ray air-shower measurements
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