Simulating radio emission from air showers with CoREAS

By Tim Huege, M. Ludwig, C. James. 2013

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CoREAS is a Monte Carlo code for the simulation of radio emission from extensive air showers. It implements the endpoint formalism for the calculation of electromagnetic radiation directly in CORSIKA. As such, it is parameter-free, makes no assumptions on the emission mechanism for the radio signals, and takes into account the complete complexity of the electron and positron distributions as simulated by CORSIKA. In this article, we illustrate the capabilities of CoREAS with simulations carried out in different frequency ranges from tens of MHz up to GHz frequencies, and describe in particular the emission characteristics at high frequencies due to Cherenkov effects arising from the varying refractive index of the atmosphere.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Radio detection of cosmic ray air showers in the digital era (2016, methodology): “Finally, the endpoint formalism was implemented directly in CORSIKA, leading to the CoREAS code [25].”
Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope (2013, background): “…by EDP Sciences A98, page 1 of 14 A&A 560, A98 (2013) Theoretical models describing the different emission mechanisms at play point to a very detailed and non-symmetrical emission pattern at ground level (Werner et al. 2012; Alvarez-Muñiz et al. 2012; Marin & Revenu 2012; Huege et al. 2013).”