Volume 358 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019) - CRI - Cosmic Ray Indirect
Radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers with the OVRO-LWA: status and future plans.
A. Romero-Wolf,* R. Monroe, G. Hallinan, W. Carvalho, K. Plant, K. Belov, A. Nelles, M. Eastwood, M. Anderson, L. D'Addario, J. Kocz, D. Woody
*corresponding author
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Abstract
We present the successful radio frequency (30 - 80 MHz) self-triggered detection and identification of 10 high energy cosmic rays with Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA). The core of the OVRO-LWA consists of 256 dual-polarization antennas that are approximately evenly spaced in a 200 m diameter disk with several outliers at longer distances. Based on this success we present future plans for an array covering a 2.5 km diameter area for measuring the flux and composition of cosmic rays in the $3\times10^{16}$ eV - $10^{18}$ eV energy band.
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