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most citedThe Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

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21 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash with an Asymmetric Footprint Observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, John Ortberg, David M. Smith +1

The Pierre Auger Observatory, a detector array that sits 1400m above sea level in Argentina, has the ability to map the entire footprint of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes…

astro-ph.HE2026

Evidence for the Moon and Sun shadows with cosmic rays at an average energy of eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +347

Interactions of cosmic rays with the Moon and the Sun produce deficits in their arrival-direction distributions relative to an isotropic flux. Such shadows have been observed previ…

hep-ex2026

Proton-air interaction properties at TeV from shower-depth measurements with the Pierre Auger Observatory and their connection to the Muon Puzzle

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Abdul Halim, P. Abreu +347

Hybrid measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory indicate that most high-energy hadronic interaction models underestimate the average depth of the shower maximum, $\langle X_{\m…

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…

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.HE2018★ 3 cited

Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array: Joint Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017)

The Telescope Array Collaboration, The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Joint contributions of the Telescope Array Collaboration and the Pierre Auger Collaboration to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017), 12-20 July 2017, Bexco, Bus…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Impact of atmospheric effects on the energy reconstruction of air showers observed by the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Atmospheric conditions, such as the pressure (P), temperature (T) or air density (), affect the development of extended air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 872 cited

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory, located on a vast, high plain in western Argentina, is the world's largest cosmic ray observatory. The objectives of the Observatory are to probe 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★ 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.IM2013★ 2 cited

The Next Frontier in UHECR Research with an Upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The motivation, physics objectives, and technical strategy of a upgrade to the Pierre Auger Observatory are discussed.

astro-ph.HE2012★ 77 cited

A Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicat…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 34 cited

The effect of the geomagnetic field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory

P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, E. J. Ahn +495

We present a comprehensive study of the influence of the geomagnetic field on the energy estimation of extensive air showers with a zenith angle smaller than , detected a…

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…

astro-ph2008★ 635 cited

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10^19eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5x10^18eV, derived from 20,000 events recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory, is described. The spectral index gamma of the flux, J ~ E…

astro-ph2008★ 212 cited

Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 10^19 eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A method is developed to search for air showers initiated by photons using data recorded by the surface detector of the Auger Observatory. The approach is based on observables sens…

astro-ph2007★ 172 cited

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau-neutrinos that interact in the Earth's crust. Tau leptons from charged-cur…

astro-ph2007★ 788 cited

Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during the past 3.7 years, we demonstrated a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above ~ 6x10…

astro-ph2006★ 66 cited

Anisotropy studies around the galactic centre at EeV energies with the Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for anisotropies near the direction of the Galactic Centre at EeV energies. The exposure of the surface array in this…

astro-ph2005

Search for localized excess fluxes in Auger sky maps and prescription results

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Using the first surface detector data of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we present the results of a blind search for overdensities in the cosmic ray flux with respect to isotropic e…

astro-ph2005★ 2 cited

Anisotropy Studies Around the Galactic Center at EeV Energies with Auger Data

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory data have been analyzed to search for excesses of events near the direction of the galactic center in several energy ranges around EeV energies. In thi…