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Upgrade To The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory's Lidar System, Emily B. Petermann
Upgrade To The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory's Lidar System, Emily B. Petermann
Department of Physics and Astronomy: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory currently operates four elastic lidar systems in order to characterize the atmospheric aerosol content above the observatory. The atmospheric information gained by the lidar system is then used in the calibration of the observatory’s four fluorescence detectors. Currently the four lidars in operation are unable to accurately determine the aerosol content below a distance of 1 km. A project is currently underway to upgrade the current lidar system by adding an additional detector to each of the existing lidar systems. The considered designs for this upgrade and the initial results from the upgrade prototype …