Optimization of the AERA data at the Pierre Auger Observatory : developing a new interface for data handling and improving the radio reconstruction based on data measured by fluorescence telescopes / vorgelegt von Dipl. Phys. Sebastian Mathys (geboren in Velbert). Wuppertal, Dezember 2018
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Cosmic Rays and Extensive Air Showers
- Cosmic Rays
- Energy Spectrum
- Mass Composition
- Extensive Air Showers
- Radio detection of extensive air showers
- The Pierre Auger Observatory
- The surface detector
- The fluorescence detector
- Central Data Acquisition System - CDAS
- Auger Muon and Infilled Ground Array - AMIGA
- GHz - AMBER, MIDAS, EASIER
- Data processing - Offline and APE
- The Auger Engineering Radio Array
- Setup
- Calibration
- AERA data acquisition and trigger modes
- Self-trigger
- External trigger
- Periodic and pass-through trigger
- Airplane and scintillator trigger
- AEVB and others trigger modes
- Radio data in AERA
- Developing a new input/output library for AERA
- Introduction
- AERAROOTIO library
- AERAConverter
- Time and file based conversion
- Conversion based on the event trigger flag
- Input parameter list for the AERAConverter
- Debug, binarylists and extraction mode
- Conversion logic
- Modification of data stored in ROOT-TTrees
- Processing speed optimization by trigger flag pre-sorting
- Data interpretation and logfiles
- Data analysis with the AERAConverter
- Data management in AERA
- Known problems and their solutions in the AERAROOTIOLib
- CDAS - Low level merging
- BuildXRAugerfile application - Overview
- BuildXRAugerfile application - Reducing the data volume
- BuildXRAugerfile application - Input parameters
- CDAS - RD-RD merging
- Offline
- Preparations for an FD based dataset for Radio Xmax analyses
- Improvements of the Radio analyses based on FD data
- Radio reconstruction based on SD and FD
- FD based technical adjustments in the RD-reconstruction
- Integrating FD into the RD reconstruction chain
- Adjusting the timing window
- Verifying the implementation
- Comparison of datasets based on SD and FD reconstruction
- Summary
- Appendix
- Additional station information in the AERA data
- Additional station header data structure for Dutch digitizers V1
- Additional station header data structure for Dutch digitizers V2
- Additional station header data structure for German digitizers V1
- Additional station header data structure for German digitizers V2
- AERAROOTIOLib structure information in the documentation
- Monitoring with the AERAROOTIOLib
- Acknowledgment