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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…
Investigating double bump air showers with the SKA-Low
V. De Henau, S. Bouma, J. Bray +30
Double-bump showers are a rare class of extensive air showers (EAS) predicted by Monte Carlo simulations. They occur when a high-energy secondary particle, the leading particle, tr…
Measuring the locations and properties of VHF sources emitted from an aircraft flying through high clouds
Olaf Scholten, Marten Lourens, Stijn Buitink +11
We show that it is possible to locate the few places on the body of an airplane, while it is flying through high clouds, from which broad-band, pulsed, radiation is emitted at Very…
Cosmic ray detection with the LOFAR radio telescope
K. Terveer, S. Bouma, S. Buitink +15
The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) has successfully measured cosmic rays for over a decade now. With its dense core of antenna fields in the Netherlands, it is an ideal tool for study…
Reconstructing Air Shower Parameters with MGMR3D
P. Mitra, O. Scholten, T. N. G. Trinh +16
Measuring the radio emission from cosmic ray particle cascades has proven to be a very efficient method to determine their properties such as the mass composition. Efficient modeli…
Constraining the cosmic-ray mass composition by measuring the shower length with SKA
S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, J. Bhavani +17
The current generation of air shower radio arrays has demonstrated that the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with high accuracy. These experiments…
A high-precision interpolation method for pulsed radio signals from cosmic-ray air showers
A. Corstanje, S. Buitink, M. Desmet +17
Analysis of radio signals from cosmic-ray induced air showers has been shown to be a reliable method to extract shower parameters such as primary energy and depth of shower maximum…
Prospects for measuring the longitudinal particle distribution of cosmic-ray air showers with SKA
A. Corstanje, S. Buitink, J. Bhavani +17
We explore the possibilities of measuring the longitudinal profile of individual air showers beyond when using very dense radio arrays such as SKA. The low-frequency…
Interferometric imaging of Intensely Radiating Negative Leaders
Olaf Scholten, Brian M. Hare, Joe Dwyer +10
The common phenomenon of lightning still harbors many secrets and only recently a new propagation mode was observed for negative leaders. While propagating in this `Intensely Radia…
Depth of shower maximum and mass composition of cosmic rays from 50 PeV to 2 EeV measured with the LOFAR radio telescope
A. Corstanje, S. Buitink, H. Falcke +14
We present an updated cosmic-ray mass composition analysis in the energy range to eV from 334 air showers measured with the LOFAR radio telescope, and selec…
Time resolved 3Dinterferometric imaging of a section of a negative leader with LOFAR
Olaf Scholten, Brian Hare, Joe Dwyer +6
We have developed a three dimensional (3D) interferometric beamforming technique for imaging lightning flashes using Very-High Frequency (VHF) radio data recorded from several hund…
The initial stage of cloud lightning imaged in high-resolution
O. Scholten, B. M. Hare, J. Dwyer +21
With LOFAR we have been able to image the development of lightning flashes with meter-scale accuracy and unprecedented detail. We discuss the primary steps behind our most recent l…
Radio emission from negative lightning leader steps reveals inner meter-scale structure
B. M. Hare, O. Scholten, J. Dwyer +19
We use the Low Frequency ARray (LOFAR) to probe the dynamics of the stepping process of negatively-charged plasma channels (negative leaders) in a lightning discharge. We observe t…
Reconstructing air shower parameters with LOFAR using event specific GDAS atmospheres
P. Mitra, A. Bonardi, A. Corstanje +15
The limited knowledge of atmospheric parameters like humidity, pressure, temperature, and the index of refraction has been one of the important systematic uncertainties in reconstr…
On the cosmic-ray energy scale of the LOFAR radio telescope
K. Mulrey, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje +14
Cosmic rays are routinely measured at LOFAR, both with a dense array of antennas and with the LOFAR Radboud air shower Array (LORA) which is an array of plastic scintillators. In t…
Cosmic Ray Physics with the LOFAR Radio Telescope
T Winchen, A Bonardi, S Buitink +14
The LOFAR radio telescope is able to measure the radio emission from cosmic ray induced air showers with hundreds of individual antennas. This allows for precision testing of the e…
Status of the Lunar Detection Mode for Cosmic Particles of LOFAR
T. Winchen, A. Bonardi, S. Buitink +14
Cosmic particles hitting Earth's moon produce radio emission via the Askaryan effect. If the resulting radio ns-pulse can be detected by radio telescopes, this technique potentiall…
Calibration of the LOFAR low-band antennas using the Galaxy and a model of the signal chain
K. Mulrey, A. Bonardi, S. Buitink +15
The LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) is used to make precise measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers, yielding information about the primary cosmic ray. Interpreting t…