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Detecting Radio Emission from Air Showers with LOFAR
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@MISC{Nellesa_detectingradio,
author = {Anna Nellesa and Stijn Buitinkc and Arthur Corstanjea and Emilio Enriqueza and Heino Falckea and Wilfred Frieswijkd and Maaijke Meviusd and Satyendra Thoudama and Olaf Scholtenc and Er Ter Veena and Martin Van Den Akkera and The Lofar},
title = {Detecting Radio Emission from Air Showers with LOFAR},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
LOFAR (the Low Frequency Array) is the largest ra-dio telescope in the world for observing low frequency radio emission from 10 to 240 MHz. In addition to its use as an interferometric array, LOFAR is now routinely used to detect cosmic ray induced air show-ers by their radio emission. The LOFAR core in the Netherlands has a higher density of antennas than any dedicated cosmic ray experiment in radio. On an area of 12 km2 more than 2300 antennas are in-stalled. They measure the radio emission from air showers with unprecedented precision and, therefore, give the perfect opportunity to disentangle the phys-ical processes which cause the radio emission in air showers. In parallel to ongoing astronomical obser-vations LOFAR is triggered by an array of particle detectors to record time-series containing cosmic-ray pulses. Cosmic rays have been measured with LO-FAR since June 2011. We present the results of the first year of data. 1
