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Pierre Auger Observatory: Status Report

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a large international effort to provide measurements of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays with energies above 10 eV , the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR’s). The explanations for the origin, acceleration processes and composition of the UHECR’s face theoretical and experimental difficulties, due to the extremely low...

Angular Resolution of the Pierre Auger Observatory

We studied the angular resolution of the Pierre Auger Detector using data collected from January 2004 to May 2005. The detector consists of two independent components, the fluorescence detector and the surface detector. Hybrid events, observed simultaneously by both components, have smaller reconstruction uncertainties than the events observed with only one component. The hybrid resolution is e...

Atmospheric Monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory – Status and Update

Calorimetric measurements of extensive air showers are performed with the fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. To correct these measurements for the effects introduced by atmospheric fluctuations, the Observatory operates several instruments to record atmospheric conditions across and above the detector site. New developments have been made in the study of the aerosol optical ...

Physics Results of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Online Monitoring of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The data taking of the different components of the Pierre Auger Observatory, i.e. the surface detectors (SD) and the fluorescence telescopes (FD) has to be supervised by a shift crew on site to guarantee a smooth operation. A monitoring tool has been developed to support the shifter in judging and supervising the status of the detector components, the electronics and the data-acquisition (DAQ)....