Conveners
analysis techniques and instruments
- Martin Will (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
analysis techniques and instruments
- Martin Will (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
analysis techniques and instruments
- Vincenzo Rizi (GSGC)
analysis techniques and instruments
- Vincenzo Rizi (GSGC)
Dr
Bianca Keilhauer
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT)
25/09/2018, 10:00
The Pierre Auger Observatory for detecting ultra-high 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 to the main detectors of the Observatory, a comprehensive set of instruments for monitoring the...
Dr
Dusan Mandat
(Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
25/09/2018, 10:30
The Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes (FAST) is a proposed low-cost, large-area, next-generation experiment for the detection of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) via the atmospheric fluorescence technique. Two FAST telescopes are installed and operating at the Black Rock Mesa site of the Telescope Array Experiment in Utah, USA. Knowledge of the properties of the...
Dr
Markus Gaug
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and IEEC-CERES)
25/09/2018, 12:30
The IFAE/UAB Raman LIDAR project aims to develop a Raman LIDAR suitable for the online atmospheric calibration along the line-of-sight of the Northern array of the CTA.
Requirements for such a solution include the ability to characterize aerosol extinction to distances of 30 m with an accuracy better than 5%, within time scales of less than 1 minute.
The Raman LIDAR consists therefore of a...
Dr
Alessia Sannino
(CNISM - Università FedericoII di Napoli)
25/09/2018, 13:00
A lidar for aerosol monitoring with conventional optical design can provide good quality signals from several hundred meters up to tens of kilometres above the ground, but the aerosol load is mainly contained (up to 80%) in the planetary boundary layer that can have a height of the order of hundreds of meters. Therefore, the measurement of the complete aerosol extinction profile is generally a...
Dr
Simon Mackovjak
(Department of Space Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
25/09/2018, 15:00
The night time UV radiation composed of airglow, starlight, and zodiacal light act as a background for detection of the Extensive Air Shower (EAS) fluorescence induced by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). To monitor this background, we have developed the one-pixel instrument that provides the absolute intensities within the spectral range 300 - 480 nm in the one second temporal...
Dr
Jan Ebr
(Institue of Physics, Prague)
25/09/2018, 15:30
The idea of using stellar photometry for atmospheric monitoring for optical experiments in high-energy astrophysics is seemingly straightforward, but reaching high precision of the order of 0.01 in the determination of the vertical aerosol optical depth (VAOD) has proven consistently difficult. Wide-field photometry in a large span of altitudes allows fast determination of VAOD independently...
Dr
Petr Janecek
(Institute of Physics AS CR)
25/09/2018, 16:00
A FRAM telescope is a system consisting of a robotic mount, a large-format CCD camera and a fast telephoto lens that can be used for atmospheric monitoring at any site whenever information about the atmospheric transparency is required with high spatial or temporal resolution and where continuous use of laser-based methods for this purpose would interfere with other bservations. The original...
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Development of a High Spectral Resolution Lidar for day-time measurements of aerosol extinction.
Dr
Alessia Sannino
(CNISM - Università FedericoII di Napoli)
25/09/2018, 17:00
Lidar technique is the most performing way to obtain the atmosphere vertical profile of aerosol optical properties with high space-time resolution. With conventional lidars, the retrieval of aerosol optical properties (as the extinction profile) is realizable only with assumptions on aerosol extinction-to-backscatter ratio or with Raman measurement achievable in night-time.
In order to...
Mr
Stanislav Stefanik
(Charles University, Prague)
25/09/2018, 17:30
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will require reliable monitoring of the atmosphere which is an inherent part of the detector. We discuss here the implementation of the extended method of the Cherenkov Transparency Coefficient for the atmospheric calibration for the CTA. The method estimates the atmospheric transmission of Cherenkov light,...
Dr
Nataliia Borodai
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow)
25/09/2018, 18:00
Aerosol optical depth can be retrieved from measurements performed by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument. The MODIS satellite system includes two polar satellites, Terra and Aqua. Each of them flies over the Pierre Auger Observatory once a day, providing two measurements of aerosols per day and covering the whole area of the Observatory. MODIS aerosol...
