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