https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921603007
Reconstruction of air-shower measurements with AERA in the presence of pulsed radio-frequency interference
1
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Physics
Karlsruhe
Germany
2
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen
Germany
3
Observatorio Pierre Auger, Av.
San Martín Norte 304
5613
Malargüe
Argentina
4
also at: Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels
Belgium
★ e-mail: tim.huege@kit.edu
★★ Full author list at http://www.auger.org/archive/authors_2018_06.html
Published online: 24 September 2019
Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is situated in the Argentinian Pampa Amarilla, a location far away from large human settlements. Nevertheless, a strong background of pulsed radio-frequency interference (RFI) exists on site, which not only makes radio self-triggering challenging but also poses a problem for an effcient and pure reconstruction of air-shower measurements. We present how our standard event reconstruction exploi s several strategies to identify and suppress pulsed noise, and quantify the effciency and purity of our algorithms. These strategies can be employed by any experiment taking radio data in the presence of pulsed RFI.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2019
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