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most citedObserving pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR

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astro-ph.HE2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2026

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 …

astro-ph.HE2024★ 36 cited

Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period

I. de Ruiter, K. M. Rajwade, C. G. Bassa +14

Recent observations have revealed rare, previously unknown flashes of cosmic radio waves lasting from milliseconds to minutes, and with periodicity of minutes to an hour. These tra…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

A candidate coherent radio flash following a neutron star merger

A. Rowlinson, I. de Ruiter, R. L. C. Starling +10

In this paper, we present rapid follow-up observations of the short GRB 201006A, consistent with being a compact binary merger, using the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR). We have detec…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

A LOFAR prompt search for radio emission accompanying X-ray flares in GRB 210112A

A. Hennessy, R. L. C. Starling, A. Rowlinson +14

The composition of relativistic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and their emission mechanisms are still debated, and they could be matter or magnetically dominated. One way to distingui…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 12 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Testing afterglow models of FRB 200428 with early post-burst observations of SGR 1935+2154

A. J. Cooper, A. Rowlinson, R. A. M. J. Wijers +8

We present LOFAR imaging observations from the April/May 2020 active episode of magnetar SGR 1935+2154. We place the earliest radio limits on persistent emission following the low-…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 25 cited

LOFAR early-time search for coherent radio emission from Short GRB 181123B

A. Rowlinson, R. L. C. Starling, K. Gourdji +6

The mergers of two neutron stars are typically accompanied by broad-band electromagnetic emission from either a relativistic jet or a kilonova. It has also been long predicted that…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 11 cited

LOFAR 144-MHz follow-up observations of GW170817

J. W. Broderick, T. W. Shimwell, K. Gourdji +66

We present low-radio-frequency follow-up observations of AT 2017gfo, the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817, which was the first binary neutron star merger to be detected by A…

astro-ph.HE2019

Contributions of the LOFAR Cosmic Ray Key Science Project to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019)

A. Bonardi, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje +15

This is a collection of papers that have been contributed by the LOFAR Cosmic Ray Key Science Project (CRKSP) to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference held in Madison, Wisco…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

LOFAR early-time search for coherent radio emission from GRB 180706A

A. Rowlinson, K. Gourdji, K. van der Meulen +12

The nature of the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the composition of their relativistic jets are still under debate. If the jets are Poynting flux dominated rather t…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

A LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars: extending below 80 MHz

A. V. Bilous, L. Bondonneau, V. I. Kondratiev +9

We present the results from the low-frequency (40--78 MHz) extension of the first LOFAR pulsar census of non-recycled pulsars. We have used the Low-Band Antennas of the LOFAR core…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 106 cited

The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS): Survey overview and initial pulsar discoveries

S. Sanidas, S. Cooper, C. G. Bassa +20

We present an overview of the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS) for radio pulsars and fast transients. The survey uses the high-band antennas of the LOFAR Superterp, the den…

astro-ph.HE2019

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…

astro-ph.HE2019

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…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 37 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2017

Contributions of the LOFAR Cosmic Ray Key Science Project to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017)

A. Bonardi, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje +14

Contributions of the LOFAR Cosmic Ray Key Science Project to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017)

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

Overview of lunar detection of ultra-high energy particles and new plans for the SKA

Clancy W. James, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Justin D. Bray +12

The lunar technique is a method for maximising the collection area for ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic ray and neutrino searches. The method uses either ground-based radio telescope…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

Thunderstorm electric fields probed by extensive air showers through their polarized radio emission

T. N. G. Trinh, O. Scholten, A. Bonardi +17

We observe a large fraction of circular polarization in radio emission from extensive air showers recorded during thunderstorms, much higher than in the emission from air showers m…