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20202024
most citedMeasurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum above eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

213 citations · 923 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

astro-ph.HE2024

Closing the net on transient sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau, Antonio Condorelli +2

Arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) observed above eV provide evidence of localized excesses that are key to identifying their sources. W…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Ground observations of a space laser for the assessment of its in-orbit performance

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, O. Lux, I. Krisch +380

The wind mission Aeolus of the European Space Agency was a groundbreaking achievement for Earth observation. Between 2018 and 2023, the space-borne lidar instrument ALADIN onboard…

astro-ph.HE2023

AugerPrime Surface Detector Electronics

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

Operating since 2004, the Pierre Auger Observatory has led to major advances in our understanding of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The latest findings have revealed new insigh…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

Radio Measurements of the Depth of Air-Shower Maximum at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +372

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA), part of the Pierre Auger Observatory, is currently the largest array of radio antenna stations deployed for the detection of cosmic rays,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

Demonstrating Agreement between Radio and Fluorescence Measurements of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +372

We show, for the first time, radio measurements of the depth of shower maximum () of air showers induced by cosmic rays that are compared to measurements of the estab…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

The Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +358

The Pierre Auger Collaboration has embraced the concept of open access to their research data since its foundation, with the aim of giving access to the widest possible community.…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Search for UHE Photons from Gravitational Wave Sources with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +368

A search for time-directional coincidences of ultra-high-energy (UHE) photons above 10 EeV with gravitational wave (GW) events from the LIGO/Virgo runs O1 to O3 is conducted with t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 33 cited

Constraining models for the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with a novel combined analysis of arrival directions, spectrum, and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +371

The combined fit of the measured energy spectrum and shower maximum depth distributions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is known to constrain the parameters of astrophysical model…

astro-ph.HE2022

Observational constraints on cosmic-ray escape from ultra-high energy accelerators

Antonio Condorelli, Quentin Luce, Sullivan Marafico +2

The energy spectrum and mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays inferred at the Pierre Auger Observatory are used to derive a benchmark scenario for the emission mechanis…

astro-ph.HE2022

A Catalog of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Recorded During Phase I of Operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +376

A catalog containing details of the highest-energy cosmic rays recorded through the detection of extensive air-showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented with the aim of…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 66 cited

Constraining the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays across and above the ankle with the spectrum and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +365

In this work we present the interpretation of the energy spectrum and mass composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Collaboration above eV. We use an ast…

astro-ph.HE2022

Observational constraints on accelerators of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau, Antonio Condorelli +2

We explore two generic hypotheses for tracing the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in the Universe: star formation rate density or stellar mass density. For each s…

astro-ph.HE2022

Search for photons above 10 eV with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +365

We use the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory to search for air showers initiated by photons with an energy above eV. Photons in the zenith angle range from…

astro-ph.HE2022

Cosmological implications of photon-flux upper limits at ultra-high energies in scenarios of Planckian-interacting massive particles for dark matter

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

Using the data of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we report on a search for signatures that would be suggestive of super-heavy particles decaying in the Galactic halo. From the lack…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Observational constraints on cosmic-ray escape from UHE accelerators

Quentin Luce, Sullivan Marafico, Jonathan Biteau +2

Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) accelerated in specific astrophysical environments have been shown to shape the energy production rate of nuclei differently…

astro-ph.HE2022

Investigating Hadronic Interactions at Ultra-High Energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Isabel Goos, :, P. Abreu +374

The development of an extensive air shower depends not only on the nature of the primary ultra-high-energy cosmic ray but also on the properties of the hadronic interactions. For e…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

Limits to gauge coupling in the dark sector set by the non-observation of instanton-induced decay of Super-Heavy Dark Matter in the Pierre Auger Observatory data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

Instantons, which are non-perturbative solutions to Yang-Mills equations, provide a signal for the occurrence of quantum tunneling between distinct classes of vacua. They can give…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 32 cited

Testing effects of Lorentz invariance violation in the propagation of astroparticles with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is often described by dispersion relations of the form with delta different based on particle type , with…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 114 cited

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays beyond the turn-down around eV as measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum above 100\,PeV using the part of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory that has a spacing of 750~m. An inflection…

astro-ph.HE2021

Cosmographic model of the astroparticle skies

J. Biteau, S. Marafico, Y. Kerfis +1

Modeling the extragalactic astroparticle skies involves reconstructing the 3D distribution of the most extreme sources in the Universe. Full-sky tomographic surveys at near-infrare…

hep-ex2021★ 27 cited

Extraction of the Muon Signals Recorded with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Recurrent Neural Networks

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

The Pierre Auger Observatory, at present the largest cosmic-ray observatory ever built, is instrumented with a ground array of 1600 water-Cherenkov detectors, known as the Surface…

hep-ex2021★ 86 cited

Measurement of the fluctuations in the number of muons in extensive air showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +365

We present the first measurement of the fluctuations in the number of muons in extensive air showers produced by ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. We find that the measured fluctuation…

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…