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The shape of the radio wavefront of extensive air showers as measured with LOFAR

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arxiv 1404.3907 v2 pith:XOHDRULS submitted 2014-04-15 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.IM

The shape of the radio wavefront of extensive air showers as measured with LOFAR

A. Corstanje , P. Schellart , A. Nelles , S. Buitink , J. E. Enriquez , H. Falcke , W. Frieswijk , J. R. H\"orandel
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Extensive air showers, induced by high energy cosmic rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere, produce radio emission that is measured with the LOFAR radio telescope. As the emission comes from a finite distance of a few kilometers, the incident wavefront is non-planar. A spherical, conical or hyperbolic shape of the wavefront has been proposed, but measurements of individual air showers have been inconclusive so far. For a selected high-quality sample of 161 measured extensive air showers, we have reconstructed the wavefront by measuring pulse arrival times to sub-nanosecond precision in 200 to 350 individual antennas. For each measured air shower, we have fitted a conical, spherical, and hyperboloid shape to the arrival times. The fit quality and a likelihood analysis show that a hyperboloid is the best parametrization. Using a non-planar wavefront shape gives an improved angular resolution, when reconstructing the shower arrival direction. Furthermore, a dependence of the wavefront shape on the shower geometry can be seen. This suggests that it will be possible to use a wavefront shape analysis to get an additional handle on the atmospheric depth of the shower maximum, which is sensitive to the mass of the primary particle.

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