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20022011
most citedThe Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

380 citations · 860 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.HE2011★ 20 cited

Anisotropy and chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +490

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported evidence for anisotropy in the distribution of arrival directions of the cosmic rays with energies eV. Thes…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 380 cited

The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, J. Abraham, P. Abreu +515

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It combines a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level together with a fluo…

astro-ph2007★ 374 cited

Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory provide evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of the cosmic rays with the highest energies, which are correlated with the…

astro-ph2007★ 8 cited

Measurement of Aerosols at the Pierre Auger Observatory

S. Y. BenZvi, F. Arqueros, R. Cester +38

The air fluorescence detectors (FDs) of the Pierre Auger Observatory are vital for the determination of the air shower energy scale. To compensate for variations in atmospheric con…

astro-ph2006★ 59 cited

The Lidar System of the Pierre Auger Observatory

S. Y. BenZvi, R. Cester, M. Chiosso +27

The Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Argentina, is designed to study the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays with energies above 10^18 eV. The energy calibration of the det…

astro-ph2003

Pierre Auger Atmosphere-Monitoring Lidar System

A. Filipcic, M. Horvat, D. Veberic +7

The fluorescence-detection techniques of cosmic-ray air-shower experiments require precise knowledge of atmospheric properties to reconstruct air-shower energies. Up to now, the at…