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most citedLarge-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies above 4 EeV measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

133 citations · 522 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Ideas and Requirements for the Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS)

Markus Ahlers, Ingo Allekotte, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz +136

After a successful kick-off meeting in 2021. two workshops in 2022 and 2023 on the future Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS) focused mainly on a straw man design of the detector…

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…

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…

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.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★ 26 cited

The ARTI Framework: Cosmic Rays Atmospheric Background Simulations

Christian Sarmiento-Cano, Mauricio Suárez-Durán, Rolando Calderón-Ardila +6

ARTI is a complete framework designed to simulate the signals produced by the secondary particles emerging from the interaction of single, multiple and even, the complete flux of p…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

Search for magnetically-induced signatures in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +372

We search for signals of magnetically-induced effects in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory. We apply two different me…

physics.ins-det2020★ 18 cited

Design and construction of MuTe: a hybrid Muon Telescope to study Colombian Volcanoes

J. Peña-Rodríguez, J. Pisco-Guabave, D. Sierra-Porta +6

We present a hybrid Muon Telescope, MuTe, designed and built for imaging active Colombian volcanoes. The MuTe has a resolution of tens of meters, low power consumption, robustness…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 74 cited

Cosmic-ray anisotropies in right ascension measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +373

We present measurements of the large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies in right ascension, using data collected by the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory over more…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

Simulated Response of MuTe, a Hybrid Muon Telescope

A. Vásquez-Ramírez, M. Suárez-Durán, A. Jaimes-Motta +6

In this paper we present a complete and detailed computational model of the response of the hybrid Muon Telescope (MuTe), designed to perform muography volcanic studies. This instr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 108 cited

Probing the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with neutrinos in the EeV energy range using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +389

Neutrinos with energies above eV are detectable with the Surface Detector Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The identification is efficiently performed for neutrinos…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 25 cited

Measurement of the average shape of longitudinal profiles of cosmic-ray air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +385

The profile of the longitudinal development of showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays carries information related to the interaction properties of the primary particles…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 133 cited

Large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies above 4 EeV measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +374

We present a detailed study of the large-scale anisotropies of cosmic rays with energies above 4 EeV measured using the Pierre Auger Observatory. For the energy bins [4,8] EeV and…

physics.geo-ph2018★ 39 cited

Results from The Latin American Giant Observatory Space Weather Simulation Chain

Mauricio Suárez Durán, Hernán Asorey, Luis A. Núñez

The Space Weather program of the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) Collaboration was designed to study the variation of the flux of atmospheric secondary particles at ground…

physics.geo-ph2017★ 3 cited

Muon Tomography sites for Colombian volcanoes

A. Vesga-Ramírez, D. Sierra-Porta, J. Pena-Rodriguez +6

By using a very detailed simulation scheme, we have calculated the cosmic ray background flux at 13 active Colombian volcanoes and developed a methodology to identify the most conv…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 3 cited

The Latin American Giant Observatory: a successful collaboration in Latin America based on Cosmic Rays and computer science domains

H. Asorey, R. Mayo-García, L. A. Núñez +4

In this work the strategy of the Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) to build a Latin American collaboration is presented. Installing Cosmic Rays detectors settled all around t…