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Pierre Auger Atmosphere-Monitoring Lidar System | | A. Filipcic
; M. Horvat
; D. Veberic
; D. Zavrtanik
; M. Zavrtanik
; M. Chiosso
; R. Mussa
; G. Sequeiros
; M.A. Mostafa
; M.D. Roberts
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21 May 2003 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 2,3), and M.D. Roberts ( Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, Nova Gorica Polytechnic, Slovenia, INFN-Torino, Italy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA | | Abstract: | The fluorescence-detection techniques of cosmic-ray air-shower experiments require precise knowledge of atmospheric properties to reconstruct air-shower energies. Up to now, the atmosphere in desert-like areas was assumed to be stable enough so that occasional calibration of atmospheric attenuation would suffice to reconstruct shower profiles. However, serious difficulties have been reported in recent fluorescence-detector experiments causing systematic errors in cosmic ray spectra at extreme energies. Therefore, a scanning backscatter lidar system has been constructed for the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Argentina, where on-line atmospheric monitoring will be performed. One lidar system is already deployed at the Los Leones fluorescence detector site and the second one is currently (April 2003) under construction at the Coihueco site. Next to the established ones, a novel analysis method with assumption on horizontal invariance, using multi-angle measurements is shown to unambiguously measure optical depth, as well as absorption and backscatter coefficient. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0305389 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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