Calibration of the LOFAR antennas
Hörandel JR, Buitink S, Corstanje A, Enriquez JE, Falcke H, Karskens T, Krause M, Nelles A, Rachen JP, Rossetto L, Schellart P, Scholten O, Ter Veen S, Thoudam S, Trinh TN (2015)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2015
Journal
Publisher: Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Book Volume: 30-July-2015
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of Science
Event location: The Hague, NLD
Abstract
Extensive air showers create short nanosecond-scale pulses in the radio frequencies. These pulses have been measured successfully in the past years at the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). Due to the short duration and emission of the signal in the atmosphere, methods based on flux calibration of known sources as used in radio astronomical observations cannot be applied to establish an absolute calibration. To overcome this, we present three approaches that were used to check and improve the antenna model of LOFAR, and to provide an absolute calibration for air shower measurements. Two include the calibration with made-made sources, while one is using the Galactic radio emission. A source has been used that allows the cross-calibration of LOPES, Tunka-Rex and LOFAR. In future work these results can be used as an absolute scale for measurements of astronomical transients with LOFAR.
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Involved external institutions
Radboud University Nijmegen
Netherlands (NL)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Belgium (BE)
University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Netherlands (NL)
Netherlands (NL)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Belgium (BE)
University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Netherlands (NL)
How to cite
APA:
Hörandel, J.R., Buitink, S., Corstanje, A., Enriquez, J.E., Falcke, H., Karskens, T.,... Trinh, T.N. (2015). Calibration of the LOFAR antennas. In Proceedings of Science. The Hague, NLD: Proceedings of Science (PoS).
MLA:
Hörandel, Jörg R., et al. "Calibration of the LOFAR antennas." Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015, The Hague, NLD Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2015.
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