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Study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays at the Pierre Auger Observatory

2013/08/M/ST9/00728

Keywords:

cosmic ray spectrum composition of cosmic rays extensive air showers

Descriptors:

  • ST9_11: High energy and particle astrophysics: X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos

Panel:

ST9 - Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution :

Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej im. Henryka Niewodniczańskiego PAN

woj. małopolskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Henryk Wilczyński 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 8

Call: HARMONIA 4 - announced on 2012-12-15

Amount awarded: 1 296 380 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-09-13

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2016-09-12

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (38)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (2)
  1. Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. I. Measurements at energies above 10^17.8 eV
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2014, tom: 90, strony: 122005 (25pp)), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.90.122005 - link to the publication
  2. Improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2015, tom: 91, strony: 92008), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.91.092008 - link to the publication
  3. Muon counting using silicon photomultipliers in the AMIGA detector of the Pierre Auger observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Instrumentation (rok: 2017, tom: 12, strony: P03002), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1748-0221/12/03/P03002 - link to the publication
  4. Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    The Pierre Auger Collaboration (A. Aab et al.)
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2014, tom: 8, strony: 019 (31pp)), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/019 - link to the publication
  5. Searches for anisotropies in the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2015, tom: 804, strony: 15), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/15 - link to the publication
  6. Spectral calibration of the fluorescence telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2017, tom: 95, strony: 44-56), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.09.001 - link to the publication
  7. A targeted search for point sources of EeV neutrons
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2014, tom: 789, strony: L34 (7pp)), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/2041-8205/789/2/L34 - link to the publication
  8. Asymmetry of the angular distribution of Cherenkov photons of extensive air showers induced by the geomagnetic field
    Authors:
    P. Homola, R. Engel, H. Wilczyński
    Academic press:
    Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2015, tom: 60 (Corrig: 65), strony: 47-53 (Corrig: 111-111)), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.12.009) - link to the publication
  9. Evidence for a mixed mass composition at the 'ankle' in the cosmic-ray spectrum
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physics Letters B (rok: 2016, tom: 762, strony: 288-295), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.039 - link to the publication
  10. Impact of atmospheric effects on the energy reconstruction of air showers observed by the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Instrumentation (rok: 2017, tom: 12, strony: P02006), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/P02006 - link to the publication
  11. Inferences on mass composition and tests of hadronic interactions from 0.3 to 100 EeV using the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2017, tom: 96, strony: 122003), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122003 - link to the publication
  12. Large scale distribution of ultra high energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with zenith angles up to 80 deg
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2015, tom: 802, strony: 111), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/802/2/111 - link to the publication
  13. Multi-resolution anisotropy studies of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2017, tom: 6, strony: 26), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2017/06/026 - link to the publication
  14. Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration
    Academic press:
    European Physical Journal C (rok: 2015, tom: 75, strony: 269), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3471-0 - link to the publication
  15. Testing hadronic interactions at ultrahigh energies with air showers measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Letters (rok: 2016, tom: 117, strony: 192001), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.192001 - link to the publication
  16. A search for point sources of EeV photons
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2014, tom: 789, strony: 160 (12pp)), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/160 - link to the publication
  17. Calibration of the logarithmic-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA) radio stations at the Pierre Auger Observatory using an octocopter
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Instrumentation (rok: 2017, tom: 12, strony: T10005), Wydawca: IOP Publishing for Sissa Medialab
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1748-0221/12/10/T10005 - link to the publication
  18. Energy estimation of cosmic rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2016, tom: 93, strony: 122005), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122005 - link to the publication
  19. Measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum above 4x10^18 eV using inclined events detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2015, tom: 8, strony: 49), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2015/08/049 - link to the publication
  20. Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al [The Pierre Auger Collaboration}
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2015, tom: 91, strony: 32003), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.91.032003 - link to the publication
  21. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    ANTARES Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, The Pierre Auger Collaboration, and LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2017, tom: 850, strony: L35 (18pp)), Wydawca: The American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/aa9aed - link to the publication
  22. Te Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (rok: 2015, tom: 798, strony: 172-213), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.nima.2015.06.058 - link to the publication
  23. Observation of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 × 1018 eV
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Science (rok: 2017, tom: 357, strony: 1266–1270), Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1126/science.aan4338 - link to the publication
  24. Search for correlations between the arrival directions of IceCube neutrino events and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
    Authors:
    M. G. Aartsen et al. [The IceCube, Pierre Auger and Telascope Array Collaborations]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2016, tom: 1, strony: 37), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2016/01/037 - link to the publication
  25. Search for photons with energies above 1018 eV using the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2017, tom: 4, strony: 9), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2017/04/009 - link to the publication
  26. A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2017, tom: 837, strony: L25 (7pp)), Wydawca: The American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/aa61a5 - link to the publication
  27. Azimuthal asymmetry in the risetime of the surface detector signals of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2016, tom: 93, strony: 72006), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.93.072006 - link to the publication
  28. Combined fit of spectrum and composition data as measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (rok: 2017, tom: 4, strony: 38), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1475-7516/2017/04/038 - link to the publication
  29. Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. II. Composition implications
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboratin]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2014, tom: 90, strony: 122006 (12pp)), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.90.122006 - link to the publication
  30. Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Letters (rok: 2016, tom: 116, strony: 241101), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241101 - link to the publication
  31. Method to Calibrate the Absolute Energy Scale of Air Showers with Ultrahigh Energy Photons
    Authors:
    P. Homola, M. Risse
    Academic press:
    Physical Review Letters (rok: 2014, tom: 112, strony: 151104 (5pp)), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.151104 - link to the publication
  32. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
    Authors:
    LIGO Scientific Collaboration, ... The Pierre Auger Collaboration, ... et al.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2017, tom: 848, strony: L12 (59pp)), Wydawca: The American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9 - link to the publication
  33. Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurement of atmospheric production depth
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2014, tom: 90, strony: 012012 (15pp)), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.90.012012 - link to the publication
  34. Nanosecond-level time synchronization of autonomous radio detector stations for extensive air showers
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Journal of Instrumentation (rok: 2016, tom: 11, strony: P01018), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/P01018 - link to the publication
  35. Prototype muon detectors for the AMIGA component of the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Lournal of Instrumentation (rok: 2016, tom: 11, strony: P02012), Wydawca: IOP Publishing Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/1748-0221/11/02/P02012 - link to the publication
  36. Search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2016, tom: 94, strony: 82002), Wydawca: Americal Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.94.082002 - link to the publication
  37. Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 10^19 eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [ The Pierre Auger and Telescope Array Collaborations]
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2014, tom: 794, strony: 172 (15pp)), Wydawca: American Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172 - link to the publication
  38. Ultrahigh-energy neutrino follow-up of gravitational wave events GW150914 and GW151226 with the Pierre Auger Observatory
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2016, tom: 94, strony: 122007), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.94.122007 - link to the publication
  1. The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)
    Authors:
    A. Aab et al. [The Pierre Auger Collaboration]
    Conference:
    34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (rok: 2015, ), Wydawca: Proceedings of Science
    Data:
    konferencja 30 Jul - 6 Aug 2015
    Status:
    Published
  2. Atmospheric aerosol measurements from satellites
    Authors:
    Nataliia Borodai
    Conference:
    AtmoHEAD 2016 (rok: 2017, ), Wydawca: EPJ Web of Conferences
    Data:
    konferencja 12-14 September 2016
    Status:
    Published

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