Atmospheric Monitoring at a Cosmic Ray Observatory - a long-lasting endeavour

The Pierre Auger Observatory for detecting ultrahigh energy cosmic rays has been founded in 1999. After a main planning and construction phase of about five years, the regular data taking started in 2004, but it took another four years until the full surface detector array was deployed. In parallel...

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Main Author: Keilhauer Bianca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2019-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919702001