The LOFAR air shower front evolution library
Abstract
The LOFAR radio telescope, under construction in the Netherlands, will be a powerful instrument to measure extensive air showers through their radio signal. In order to fully understand the properties of these signals, we are building a library of CORSIKA simulations of showers at 1016--1020.5 eV on the LOFAR BlueGene supercomputer. This library contains histogrammed data on the particle energy and spatial and angular distributions throughout the course of the air showers. The REAS2 code is used to calculate geosynchrotron radio emission from these simulations. We present parametrisations of various characteristics of the particle distributions and radio signal from showers in this library.
- Publication:
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International Cosmic Ray Conference
- Pub Date:
- 2008
- Bibcode:
- 2008ICRC....4..577L