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

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astro-ph.IM2025

Long-term calibration and validation of stability of the Auger Engineering Radio Array using the diffuse Galactic radio emission

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +356

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) measures radio emission from high-energy extensive air showers. Consisting of 153 autonomous radio-detector stations spread over \,km$^…

astro-ph.IM2025

AugerPrime: Status and first results

David Schmidt

With the knowledge and statistical precision derived from two decades of measurement, the Pierre Auger Observatory has significantly deepened our understanding of ultra-high-energy…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Towards a Cosmic-Ray Energy Scale with the Auger Engineering Radio Array

Max Büsken

Radio detection of cosmic-ray (CR) induced extensive air showers with digital antenna arrays is a matured technique by now. At the Pierre Auger Observatory, the Auger Engineering R…

astro-ph.IM2024

Acceptance Tests of more than 10 000 Photomultiplier Tubes for the multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules of the IceCube Upgrade

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +420

More than 10,000 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a diameter of 80 mm will be installed in multi-PMT Digital Optical Modules (mDOMs) of the IceCube Upgrade. These have been tested…

astro-ph.IM2024

Status and plans for the instrumentation of the IceCube Surface Array Enhancement

S. Shefali, Frank G. Schroeder

The surface array of IceCube, IceTop, operates primarily as a cosmic-ray detector, as well as a veto for astrophysical neutrino searches for the IceCube in-ice instrumentation. How…

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.IM2023★ 3 cited

tilepy: rapid tiling strategies in mid/small FoV observatories

Fabian Schüssler, Halim Ashkar, Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne +1

The challenges inherent to time-domain multi-messenger astronomy require strategic actions so that adapted, optimized follow-up observations are performed efficiently. In particula…

astro-ph.IM2023

Mechanical design of the optical modules intended for IceCube-Gen2

Yuya Makino

IceCube-Gen2 is an expansion of the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole that aims to increase the sensitivity to high-energy neutrinos by an order of magnitude. To this…

astro-ph.IM2023

Operations plans and sensitivities of the IceCube Upgrade Camera System

Steven Rodan, Christoph Tönnis, Jiwoong Lee +1

The IceCube Upgrade consists of seven new strings to be deployed in the central region of the existing IceCube detector. The goals of the IceCube Upgrade are two-fold: to enhance s…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

A new simulation framework for IceCube Upgrade calibration using IceCube Upgrade Camera system

Christoph Tönnis, Seowon Choi, Carsten Rott +2

Currently, an upgrade consisting of seven densely instrumented strings in the center of the volume of the IceCube detector with new digital optical modules (DOMs) is being built. O…

astro-ph.IM2023

Enhanced Starting Track Real-time Stream for IceCube

Jesse Osborn, Sarah Mancina, Manuel Silva

IceCube real-time alerts allow for rapid follow-up observations of likely astrophysical neutrino events, enabling searches for multi-messenger counterparts. The Enhanced Starting T…

astro-ph.IM2023

Electronics Design of the IceCube-Gen2 Optical Module Prototype

Sean Griffin

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension to the existing IceCube Neutrino Observatory and will provide an order of magnitude increase in the detection rate of cosmic neutrinos by deploy…

astro-ph.IM2023

Detailed investigations of PMTs in optical sensors for neutrino telescopes such as IceCube Upgrade

Berit Schlüter, Willem Achtermann, Martin Antonio Unland Elorrieta

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are a central component of neutrino telescopes such as IceCube and KM3NeT, and an accurate understanding and measurement of their properties is indispe…

astro-ph.IM2023

Performance studies on new 4" photomultiplier types intended for IceCube-Gen2 optical modules

Markus Dittmer, Alexander Kappes

In the upcoming IceCube-Gen2 extension, the newly developed optical modules will include 4-inch PMTs. For this purpose, the manufacturers Hamamatsu and North Night Vision Technolog…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 12 cited

D-Egg: a Dual PMT Optical Module for IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +389

The D-Egg, an acronym for ``Dual optical sensors in an Ellipsoid Glass for Gen2,'' is one of the optical modules designed for future extensions of the IceCube experiment at the Sou…

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.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…