Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-03-13
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.Suppl.A604:20-23,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Proceedings of the ARENA 2008 workshop, to be published in NIM A
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nima.2009.03.027
Air showers from cosmic rays emit short, intense radio pulses. LOFAR is a new radio telescope, that is being built in the Netherlands and Europe. Designed primarily as a radio interferometer, the core of LOFAR will have a high density of radio antennas, which will be extremely well calibrated. This makes LOFAR a unique tool for the study of the radio properties of single air showers. Triggering on the radio emission from air showers means detecting a short radio pulse and discriminating real events from radio interference. At LOFAR we plan to search for pulses in the digital data stream - either from single antennas or from already beam-formed data - and calculate several parameters characterizing the pulse shape to pick out real events in a second stage. In addition, we will have a small scintillator array to test and confirm the performance of the radio only trigger.
Bahren L.
Buitink Stijn
Falcke Heino
Hörandel Joörg R.
Horneffer Andreas
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