Speaker
Tjibbe Gottmer
Description
We know that different astrophysical objects can accelerate charged particles to extremely high energies, but, we don’t exactly know what these sources are or how they do it. At high energies, we study cosmic rays via the air showers they generate when they interact in the Earth’s atmosphere. These air showers emit sharp pulses of radio emission that contain information about the development of the air shower. Air shower development, in turn, contains information about the particle that initiated it (was it light? heavy? what energy?) that gives clues about cosmic ray sources. In my project, we try to reconstruct air shower development using the interferometry technique, where radio pulses from the air shower are imaged on the sky.
| Talk category | Splinter 6: Data science |
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