Advanced functionality for radio analysis in the Offline software framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory

THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION (AUTOR 434 DE 474); M. TUEROS

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH A - ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPAMENT

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2011 vol. 635 p. 92 - 102

0168-9002

The advent of the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) necessitates the development of a powerful framework for the analysis of radio measurements of cosmic ray air showers. As AERA performs ‘‘radio-   hybrid’’ measurements of air shower radio emission in coincidence with the surface particle detectors  and fluorescence telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory, the radio analysis functionality had to be       incorporated in the existing hybrid analysis solutions for fluorescence and surface detector data. This goal has been achieved in a natural way by extending the existing Auger Offline software framework with radio functionality. In this article, we lay out the design, highlights and features of the radio extension implemented in the Auger Offline framework. Its functionality has achieved a high degree of sophistication and offers advanced features such as vectorial reconstruction of the electric f radio simulation codes. The source code of this radio functionality can be made available to interested parties on request.