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Nanosecond-level time synchronization of AERA using a beacon reference transmitter and commercial airplanes

Pierre Auger Collaboration; Huege, Tim 1
1 Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)


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DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201713501013
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Zitationen: 1
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Kernphysik (IKP)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-2-7598-9015-6
ISSN: 2100-014X
KITopen-ID: 1000068894
HGF-Programm 51.03.04 (POF III, LK 01) Kosmische Strahlung Technologien
Erschienen in 7th International Conference on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA), Groningen, The Netherlands, June 7-10, 2016. Ed.: S. Buitink
Verlag EDP Sciences
Seiten 01013/1-4
Serie The European physical journal / Web of Conferences ; 135
Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung Radio detection of cosmic-ray air showers requires time synchronization of detectors on a nanosecond level, especially for advanced reconstruction algorithms based on the wavefront curvature and for interferometric analysis approaches. At the Auger Engineering Radio Array, the distributed, autonomous detector stations are time-synchronized via the Global Positioning System which, however, does not provide sufficient timing accuracy. We thus employ a dedicated beacon reference transmitter to correct for eventby-event clock drifts in our offline data analysis. In an independent cross-check of this “beacon correction” using radio pulses emitted by commercial airplanes, we have shown that the combined timing accuracy of the two methods is better than 2 nanoseconds.
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