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20182026
most citedArrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory

86 citations · 554 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Impact of uncertainties on the cosmic optical and infrared backgrounds on the propagation of astroparticles

Lucas Gréaux, Antonio Condorelli, Leonel Morejon +2

When propagating through the universe, gamma rays at very-high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) and ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, E > 1 EeV) can interact with the optical, infrar…

astro-ph.HE2026

Modeling Gamma-Ray Bursts Using CRISP

Leonel Morejon, Therese Paulsen, Karl-Heinz Kampert

Astrophysical neutrinos are a clear identifier of photohadronic interactions in sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs). As the Pierre Auger Observatory has shown that UH…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Yago Lema-Capeans

We report on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Surface Detector (SD) data from Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observ…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Road map for the tuning of hadronic interaction models with accelerator-based and astroparticle data

Johannes Albrecht, Julia Becker Tjus, Noah Behling +52

In high-energy and astroparticle physics, event generators play an essential role, even in the simplest data analyses. As analysis techniques become more sophisticated, e.g. based…

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.HE2025

New full-sky studies of the distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions

A. Gálvez Ureña, L. Anchordoqui, M. Bianciotto +17

Ground-based full-sky studies of the angular distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays require combining data from different observatories, such as the Pi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Study of solar activity with AERA at the Pierre Auger Observatory

R. M. de Almeida

Solar activity events release vast amounts of energy, including radio waves, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, and energetic particles, which interact with the ionosphere of the Earth…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Update on testing of air-shower modelling using combined data of the Pierre Auger Observatory and phenomenological consequences

Jakub Vícha

The combined data of Fluorescence and Surface Detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory has recently provided the strongest constraints on the validity of predictions from current…

astro-ph.HE2025

CRPropa 3.3: Toward a Unified Multi-Messenger Framework from GeV to ZeV Energies

Sophie Aerdker, Rafael Alves Batista, Julia Becker Tjus +11

We present CRPropa 3.3, the latest release of the publicly available Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of high-energy particles in astrophysical environments. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectra for the Vacuum Cherenkov Effect in Astrophysical Electromagnetic Cascades with Lorentz Invariance Violation

Andrey Saveliev, Rafael Alves Batista, Feodor Mishin

Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, possibly leading to changes in particle behavior a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Measuring the muon content of inclined air showers using AERA and the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +360

We present a novel approach for assessing the muon content of air showers with large zenith angles on a combined analysis of their radio emission and particle footprint. We use the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Precision cross-sections for advancing cosmic-ray physics and other applications: a comprehensive programme for the next decade

D. Maurin, L. Audouin, E. Berti +32

Cosmic-ray physics in the GeV-to-TeV energy range has entered a precision era thanks to recent data from space-based experiments. However, the poor knowledge of nuclear reactions,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Stochastic description of UHECR interactions

Leonel Morejon, Julian Rautenberg

Photointeractions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in astro-physical scenarios are in general of stochastic nature and are often modeled with Monte Carlo methods to obtain…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

A search for the anomalous events detected by ANITA using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +374

A dedicated search for upward-going air showers at zenith angles exceeding and energies EeV has been performed using the Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Aug…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Search for a diffuse flux of photons with energies above tens of PeV at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +359

Diffuse photons of energy above 0.1 PeV, produced through the interactions between cosmic rays and either interstellar matter or background radiation fields, are powerful tracers o…

astro-ph.HE2025

Origin likelihood functions for extreme-energy cosmic rays

Leonel Morejon

Unlike neutrinos and photons arriving from extra-galactic sources, ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) do not trace back to their origins due to propagation effects such as magn…

astro-ph.HE2025

Uncertainties in astrophysical gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from proton-proton cross-sections in the GeV to PeV range

Julien Dörner, Leonel Morejon, Karl-Heinz Kampert +1

The identification of Cosmic Ray (CR) sources represents one of the biggest and long-standing questions in astrophysics. Direct measurements of cosmic rays cannot provide direction…

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.HE2024★ 19 cited

Large-scale cosmic ray anisotropies with 19 years of data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +355

Results are presented for the measurement of large-scale anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during 19…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are known to be mainly of extragalactic origin, and their propagation is limited by energy losses, so their arrival directions are expected to correla…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Search for photons above 10 eV by simultaneously measuring the atmospheric depth and the muon content of air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive instrument to detect photons with energies above eV. It measures extensive air showers generated by ultra high energy c…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles with energies between and eV using the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

We report an investigation of the mass composition of cosmic rays with energies from 3 to 100 EeV (1 EeV= eV) using the distributions of the depth of shower maximum $X_\ma…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 25 cited

Inference of the Mass Composition of Cosmic Rays with energies from to eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory and Deep Learning

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

We present measurements of the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum , inferred for the first time on an event-by-event level using the Surface Detector of the Pi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Impact of the Magnetic Horizon on the Interpretation of the Pierre Auger Observatory Spectrum and Composition Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +364

The flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays reaching Earth above the ankle energy (5 EeV) can be described as a mixture of nuclei injected by extragalactic sources with very hard spe…