Highlights from the Auger Engineering Radio Array
B. Pont*
on behalf of the Pierre Auger Collaboration*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
March 21, 2025
Published on:
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Abstract
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) at the Pierre Auger Observatory is an array of 153 radio-antenna stations that measure the $30-80$ MHz radio emission produced in extensive air showers in the energy range between $0.1$ and $10$ EeV. It has been taking data for over a decade. In this contribution, we present the recent results of AERA. We show the measurements of the depths of the shower maxima ($X_\mathrm{max}$) using the radio footprint and using interferometry, demonstrating compatibility and competitiveness with the established fluorescence detection method. We also show the measurement of the stability of the radio signal over close to a decade determined using the Galactic radio background as a calibration source, demonstrating that a radio detector can be used to lower systematic uncertainties on the energy scale of, for example, fluorescence and water-Cherenkov detectors.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.484.0049
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