Absolute calibration and investigation of ageing of the AERA radio detectors

0580158 - FZÚ 2024 RIV IT eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Abreu, A. - Aglietta, M. - Allekotte, I. - de Almeida, R. M. - Bakalová, Alena - Blažek, Jiří - Boháčová, Martina - Chudoba, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Hamal, Petr - Janeček, Petr - Juryšek, Jakub - Mandát, Dušan - Müller, Ana Laura - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Řídký, Jan - dos Santos, Eva M. Martins - Schovánek, Petr - Stadelmaier, Maximilian Klaus - Tobiška, Petr - Trávníček, Petr - Vícha, Jakub - Yushkov, Alexey … Total 374 authors
Absolute calibration and investigation of ageing of the AERA radio detectors.
Proceedings of Science. Vol. 424. Trieste: Sissa Medilab srl, 2023, č. článku 039. ISSN 1824-8039.
[9th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA2022). Santiago de Compostela (ES), 07.06.2022-10.06.2022]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTT18004; GA MŠMT(CZ) EF18_046/0016010; GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001402
Research Infrastructure: AUGER-CZ II - 90102
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : extensive air showers
OECD category: Particles and field physics
https://pos.sissa.it/424/039/pdf

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is currently the largest facility to measure radio emissions from extensive air showers. Located at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, it comprises 153 autonomous radio-detector stations, covering an area of 17 km2 , and measures radio waves in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. For the correct interpretation of data collected by AERA stations, the detector response has to be carefully calibrated. In the past, this was done by measuring the analogue chain in the laboratory, in addition to simulating and measuring the directional response of the antenna. In this work, we perform an absolute calibration by using the radio emission from the Galaxy. A model of the full radio sky is propagated through the system response, including the antenna, filters and amplifiers, and compared to the average spectra recorded by the stations. The method to determine the calibration constants, as the results, for each antenna will be presented.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348922