• Corpus ID: 17497000

Radio-Emission from Cosmic Ray Air-Showers - A Theoretical Perspective for LOPES

@article{Huege2002RadioEmissionFC,
  title={Radio-Emission from Cosmic Ray Air-Showers - A Theoretical Perspective for LOPES},
  author={T. Huege and Heino Falcke},
  journal={arXiv: Astrophysics},
  year={2002}
}

• T. Huege, H. Falcke
• Published 30 July 2002
• Physics
• arXiv: Astrophysics

High-energy cosmic ray air-showers have been known for over 30 years to emit strong radio pulses in the regime between a few and several 100 MHz (Allan 1971). To date, however, a thorough analysis of the emission mechanisms has not yet been conducted. Adopting a simplified shower geometry and electron-positron energy distribution, we calculate theoretical pulse spectra in the scheme of synchrotron emission from highly relativistic electron-positron pairs gyrating in the Earth's magnetic field. These calculations will play an important role for the calibration of observational data of radio-emission from cosmic ray air-showers acquired with LOPES and later LOFAR and SKA.