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NASA ASTRA Initiative White Paper: Space-Based Mission for Ultrahigh Energy Particles
Mauricio Bustamante, Johannes Eser, Ke Fang +9
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays ( EeV) are the highest-energy particles known, signaling extreme particle processes at work in the universe. However, many aspec…
The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
Eric Mayotte, Austin Cummings, Paul Degarate +12
POEMMA Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a NASA super-pressure balloon mission building toward the proposed Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) dual satellite mission.…
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…
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…
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…