Cosmic ray observations with the Square Kilometer Array
The low-frequency part of the SKA, to be built in Australia, will have an extremely high antenna density of roughly 60,000 antennas within one square kilometer, and is the perfect site for highresolution studies of air showers. Individual showers will be observed with thousands of antennas simultaneously. The depth of shower maximum Xmax can be reconstructed with a resolution of 10 g/cm$^2$ using methods currently used by LOFAR and the Pierre Auger Observatory. However, the high-resolution SKA data allows the development of new methods that can reconstruct more features of the longitudinal development of air showers, such as the shower length or doublebump profiles. This allows new constraints on both the mass composition and hadronic shower physics. Here we discuss the status of the SKA cosmic-ray program and simulation studies of its capabilities.
Authors
- T. Huege (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2783-4772)
- O. Schölten (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3649-1254)
- S. Thoudam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7066-3614)
- M. Desmet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3053-9085)
- P. Laub (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2617-9109)
- B. M. Hare (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5138-1235)
- Clancy W. James (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6437-6176)
- R. E. Spencer
- M. Waterson
- Gia Trinh
- Sjoerd Bouma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6959-2302)
- A. Corstanje (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-6228)
- Justin D. Bray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0963-0223)
- K. Terveer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9594-0419)
- H. Falcke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2526-6724)
- S. Buitink (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6177-497X)
- S. ter Veen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3285-8218)
- Katharine Mulrey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8026-8020)
- Paulina Ťureková (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1262-7507)
- J.R. Hörandel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6604-547X)
- A. Nelles
- N. Karastathis
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22323/1.470.0025
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.66