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most citedCorrelation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

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astro-ph.HE2026

Chasing Gamma-Ray Signals from Binary Neutron Star Coalescences with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Prospects and Observing Strategies

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +457

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), together with its electromagnetic counterpart, th…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium

A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exh…

hep-ph2024★ 18 cited

Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +562

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from a…

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

Chasing Gravitational Waves with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jarred Gershon Green, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +563

The detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), along with the discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Prospects for a survey of the Galactic plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

CTA Consortium

Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Wavelength-shifting light traps for SWGO and other applications

M. Pihet, M. Mariotti, C. Arcaro

Wavelength-shifting (WLS) materials contain molecules that absorb light and reemit at longer wavelengths. They can be used for light detection because they provide a large effectiv…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

An update on site search activities for SWGO

M. Santander, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Bellido +19

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a project by scientists and engineers from 14 countries and 78 institutions to design and build the first wide-field, ground…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 86 cited

Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +372

A promising energy range to look for angular correlation between cosmic rays of extragalactic origin and their sources is at the highest energies, above few tens of EeV ($1\:{\rm E…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

The UHECR dipole and quadrupole in the latest data from the original Auger and TA surface detectors

Peter Tinyakov, Luis Anchordoqui, Teresa Bister +13

The sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are still unknown, but assuming standard physics, they are expected to lie within a few hundred megaparsecs from us. Indeed, over cosmo…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

UHECR arrival directions in the latest data from the original Auger and TA surface detectors and nearby galaxies

Armando di Matteo, Luis Anchordoqui, Teresa Bister +13

The distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray arrival directions appears to be nearly isotropic except for a dipole moment of order per cent. None…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 24 cited

Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array: Joint Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +573

Joint contributions of the Pierre Auger Collaboration and the Telescope Array Collaboration to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 61 cited

Large scale distribution of ultra high energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with zenith angles up to 80

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the results of an analysis of the large angular scale distribution of the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 4 EeV detected at the Pierre Auger Observat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 210 cited

Searches for Anisotropies in the Arrival Directions of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We analyze the distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in 10 years of operation. The data set, about three time…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-ener…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 259 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at ultra-high energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between and $80^\ci…

hep-ex2014★ 117 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurement of atmospheric production depth

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory provides information about the longitudinal development of the muonic component of extensive air showers. Using the timin…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 132 cited

Probing the radio emission from air showers with polarization measurements

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiatio…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 12 cited

Identifying Clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using Infrared Satellite Data

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We describe a new method of identifying night-time clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instruments on the GOES-12 and GOES-13 satellites. W…

astro-ph.HE2013

Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array: Joint Contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2013)

The Telescope Array, Pierre Auger Collaborations, : +619

Joint contributions of the Pierre Auger and Telescope Array Collaborations to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2013: cross-calibration of…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 20 cited

The Lateral Trigger Probability function for the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Showers detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +495

In this paper we introduce the concept of Lateral Trigger Probability (LTP) function, i.e., the probability for an extensive air shower (EAS) to trigger an individual detector of a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 79 cited

The exposure of the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It consists of a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level and a fluorescence detec…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 476 cited

Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10^18 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a measurement of the flux of cosmic rays with unprecedented precision and statistics using the Pierre Auger Observatory. Based on fluorescence observations in coincidence…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 548 cited

Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10^18 eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We describe the measurement of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of the longitudinal development of air showers induced by cosmic rays. Almost four thousand events above 10^18 eV observe…