11 papers
Reconstruction of anomalous air showers with SKA-Low
Vital De Henau, Sjoerd Bouma, Justin Bray +31
Double-bump showers are a surprising class of extensive air showers (EAS) predicted by Monte Carlo simulations, which, so far, no experiment has been able to directly detect. They…
Beyond : Reconstructing Air Shower Profiles with Information Field Theory with SKA-Low
Keito Watanabe, Tim Huege, Torsten Enßlin +33
While radio measurements of extensive air showers have shown to achieve a high precision of sensitivity, it has been shown that parameters beyond …
Unveiling the Mysteries of Lightning: Exploring its fundamental Physical Processes with SKA-LOW
Brian M Hare, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink +15
Lightning is a surprisingly poorly understood phenomena. It consists of a wide variety of complex processes such as initiation, propagation, connection to ground, even emission of…
Anomalous Air Showers and What They Reveal About Hadronic Interactions and Cosmic-ray Masses
Stijn Buitink, Vital De Henau, Sjoerd Bouma +28
The identification of the sources and acceleration mechanisms of cosmic rays require precise measurements of their mass composition. Currently, the most reliable method is to measu…
Measuring High-Energy Cosmic Particles with the SKA
Tim Huege, Katharine Mulrey, Sjoerd Bouma +28
The origin of high-energy cosmic rays remain one of astrophysics' greatest unsolved mysteries. SKA-Low will be able to measure air showers initiated by cosmic rays with unprecedent…
Interferometric Analysis of Air-shower Radio Emission in the Near Field with an Information Field Theory Approach
Keito Watanabe, Karen Terveer, Sjoerd Bouma +29
Current reconstruction techniques for air-shower radio emission generated by cosmic rays have shown great success, having been applied to several radio detectors over the last deca…
Using SKA-Low to Detect PeV Gamma-rays from Galactic Sources
Anna Nelles, Philipp Laub, Haoning He +28
Detecting so called PeVatrons is considered one of the prime goals of -ray astronomy. PeVatrons are astrophysical objects in the Galaxy that are sources of cosmic rays exceeding…
A Bayesian Method for Air-Shower Reconstruction using Information Field Theory
Karen Terveer, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink +12
The radio detection of extensive air showers provides a powerful method for studying the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) offers unprecedentedly d…
Impact of Cosmic Ray Acceleration on the Early Evolution of Bow Shocks around Massive Runaway Stars
Keito Watanabe, Stefanie Walch, Tim-Eric Rathjen +3
Bow shocks generated from the interaction of winds from massive runaway stars with the interstellar medium have been shown to be prominent particle accelerators through recent -…
A novel approach for air shower profile reconstruction with dense radio antenna arrays using Information Field Theory
K. Watanabe, S. Bouma, J. D. Bray +32
Reconstructing the longitudinal profile of extensive air showers, generated from the interaction of cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere, is crucial to understanding their mass co…
SMIET: Fast and accurate synthesis of radio pulses from extensive air shower using simulated templates
Mitja Desmet, Keito Watanabe, Tim Huege +1
Interpreting the data from radio detectors for extensive air showers typically relies on Monte-Carlo based simulation codes, which, despite their accuracy are computationally expen…