TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers
The TAROGE-M observatory is an autonomous antenna array on the top of Mt. Melbourne (∼2700 m altitude) in Antarctica, designed to detect radio pulses from ultra-high energy (over 1017 eV) air showers coming from near-horizon directions. The targeted sources include cosmic rays, Earth-skimming tau ne...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9tk036n4 2023-06-11T04:07:14+02:00 TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers Wang, Shih-Hao Nam, Jiwoo Chen, Pisin Chen, Yaocheng Choi, Taejin Ham, Young-bae Hsu, Shih-Ying Huang, Jian-Jung Huang, Ming-Huey A Jee, Geonhwa Jung, Jongil Kim, Jieun Kuo, Chung-Yun Kwon, Hyuck-Jin Lee, Changsup Leung, Chung-Hei Liu, Tsung-Che Shiao, Yu-Shao J Shin, Bok-Kyun Wang, Min-Zu Wang, Yu-Hsin Anker, Astrid Barwick, Steven W Besson, Dave Z Bouma, Sjoerd Cataldo, Maddalena Gaswint, Geoffrey Glaser, Christian Hallmann, Steffen Hanson, Jordan C Henrichs, Jakob Kleinfelder, Stuart A Lahmann, Robert Meyers, Zachary S Nelles, Anna Novikov, Alexander Paul, Manuel P Pyras, Lilly Persichilli, Christopher Plaisier, Ilse Rice-Smith, Ryan Seikh, Mohammad FH Tatar, Joulien Welling, Christoph Zhao, Leshan collaborations, TAROGE and ARIANNA 022 2022-11-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tk036n4 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt9tk036n4 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tk036n4 CC-BY-NC-ND Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol 2022, iss 11 Affordable and Clean Energy Astronomical and Space Sciences Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics article 2022 ftcdlib 2023-05-29T17:59:20Z The TAROGE-M observatory is an autonomous antenna array on the top of Mt. Melbourne (∼2700 m altitude) in Antarctica, designed to detect radio pulses from ultra-high energy (over 1017 eV) air showers coming from near-horizon directions. The targeted sources include cosmic rays, Earth-skimming tau neutrinos, and most of all, the anomalous near-horizon upward-going events of yet unknown origin discovered by ANITA experiments. The detection concept follows that of ANITA: monitoring large area of ice from high-altitude and taking advantage of strong geomagnetic field and quiet radio background in Antarctica, whereas having significantly greater livetime and scalability. The TAROGE-M station, upgraded from its prototype built in 2019, was deployed in January 2020, and consists of 6 log-periodic dipole antennas pointing horizontally with bandwidth of 180-450 MHz. The station is then calibrated with drone-borne transmitter, with which the event reconstruction obtained ∼0.3° angular resolution. The station was then smoothly operating in the following month, with the live time of ∼ 30 days, before interrupted by a power problem, and its online filtering has identified several candidate cosmic-ray events and sent out via satellite communication. In this paper, the instrumentation of the station for polar and high-altitude environment, its radio-locating performance, the preliminary result on cosmic-ray detection, and the future extension plan are presented. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica University of California: eScholarship Antarctic |
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Affordable and Clean Energy Astronomical and Space Sciences Atomic Molecular Nuclear Particle and Plasma Physics Nuclear & Particles Physics Wang, Shih-Hao Nam, Jiwoo Chen, Pisin Chen, Yaocheng Choi, Taejin Ham, Young-bae Hsu, Shih-Ying Huang, Jian-Jung Huang, Ming-Huey A Jee, Geonhwa Jung, Jongil Kim, Jieun Kuo, Chung-Yun Kwon, Hyuck-Jin Lee, Changsup Leung, Chung-Hei Liu, Tsung-Che Shiao, Yu-Shao J Shin, Bok-Kyun Wang, Min-Zu Wang, Yu-Hsin Anker, Astrid Barwick, Steven W Besson, Dave Z Bouma, Sjoerd Cataldo, Maddalena Gaswint, Geoffrey Glaser, Christian Hallmann, Steffen Hanson, Jordan C Henrichs, Jakob Kleinfelder, Stuart A Lahmann, Robert Meyers, Zachary S Nelles, Anna Novikov, Alexander Paul, Manuel P Pyras, Lilly Persichilli, Christopher Plaisier, Ilse Rice-Smith, Ryan Seikh, Mohammad FH Tatar, Joulien Welling, Christoph Zhao, Leshan collaborations, TAROGE and ARIANNA TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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The TAROGE-M observatory is an autonomous antenna array on the top of Mt. Melbourne (∼2700 m altitude) in Antarctica, designed to detect radio pulses from ultra-high energy (over 1017 eV) air showers coming from near-horizon directions. The targeted sources include cosmic rays, Earth-skimming tau neutrinos, and most of all, the anomalous near-horizon upward-going events of yet unknown origin discovered by ANITA experiments. The detection concept follows that of ANITA: monitoring large area of ice from high-altitude and taking advantage of strong geomagnetic field and quiet radio background in Antarctica, whereas having significantly greater livetime and scalability. The TAROGE-M station, upgraded from its prototype built in 2019, was deployed in January 2020, and consists of 6 log-periodic dipole antennas pointing horizontally with bandwidth of 180-450 MHz. The station is then calibrated with drone-borne transmitter, with which the event reconstruction obtained ∼0.3° angular resolution. The station was then smoothly operating in the following month, with the live time of ∼ 30 days, before interrupted by a power problem, and its online filtering has identified several candidate cosmic-ray events and sent out via satellite communication. In this paper, the instrumentation of the station for polar and high-altitude environment, its radio-locating performance, the preliminary result on cosmic-ray detection, and the future extension plan are presented. |
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Wang, Shih-Hao Nam, Jiwoo Chen, Pisin Chen, Yaocheng Choi, Taejin Ham, Young-bae Hsu, Shih-Ying Huang, Jian-Jung Huang, Ming-Huey A Jee, Geonhwa Jung, Jongil Kim, Jieun Kuo, Chung-Yun Kwon, Hyuck-Jin Lee, Changsup Leung, Chung-Hei Liu, Tsung-Che Shiao, Yu-Shao J Shin, Bok-Kyun Wang, Min-Zu Wang, Yu-Hsin Anker, Astrid Barwick, Steven W Besson, Dave Z Bouma, Sjoerd Cataldo, Maddalena Gaswint, Geoffrey Glaser, Christian Hallmann, Steffen Hanson, Jordan C Henrichs, Jakob Kleinfelder, Stuart A Lahmann, Robert Meyers, Zachary S Nelles, Anna Novikov, Alexander Paul, Manuel P Pyras, Lilly Persichilli, Christopher Plaisier, Ilse Rice-Smith, Ryan Seikh, Mohammad FH Tatar, Joulien Welling, Christoph Zhao, Leshan collaborations, TAROGE and ARIANNA |
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Wang, Shih-Hao Nam, Jiwoo Chen, Pisin Chen, Yaocheng Choi, Taejin Ham, Young-bae Hsu, Shih-Ying Huang, Jian-Jung Huang, Ming-Huey A Jee, Geonhwa Jung, Jongil Kim, Jieun Kuo, Chung-Yun Kwon, Hyuck-Jin Lee, Changsup Leung, Chung-Hei Liu, Tsung-Che Shiao, Yu-Shao J Shin, Bok-Kyun Wang, Min-Zu Wang, Yu-Hsin Anker, Astrid Barwick, Steven W Besson, Dave Z Bouma, Sjoerd Cataldo, Maddalena Gaswint, Geoffrey Glaser, Christian Hallmann, Steffen Hanson, Jordan C Henrichs, Jakob Kleinfelder, Stuart A Lahmann, Robert Meyers, Zachary S Nelles, Anna Novikov, Alexander Paul, Manuel P Pyras, Lilly Persichilli, Christopher Plaisier, Ilse Rice-Smith, Ryan Seikh, Mohammad FH Tatar, Joulien Welling, Christoph Zhao, Leshan collaborations, TAROGE and ARIANNA |
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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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TAROGE-M: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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taroge-m: radio antenna array on antarctic high mountain for detecting near-horizontal ultra-high energy air showers |
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