LOFAR discoveryof radio emission in MACS J0717.5+3745
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Polarized radio emission from extensive air showers measured with LOFAR
We present LOFAR measurements of radio emission from extensive air showers. We find that this emission is strongly polarized, with a median degree of polarization of nearly 99%, and that the angle between the polarization direction of the electric field and the Lorentz force acting on the particles, depends on the observer location in the shower plane. This can be understood as a superposition ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1121