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Autor Arqueros Martínez, Fernando |
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Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Elsevier Science BV | 2011-04-11The 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 emissi[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP Publishing | 2011-06The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported. evidence for anisotropy in the distribution of arrival directions of the cosmic rays with energies E > E-th = 5.5 x 10(19) eV. These show a correlation with the distribution of nearby extragalactic o[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2012-10The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientifi[...]texto impreso
Azimuthal asymmetry in the risetime of the surface detector signals of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2016-04-07The azimuthal asymmetry in the risetime of signals in Auger surface detector stations is a source of information on shower development. The azimuthal asymmetry is due to a combination of the longitudinal evolution of the shower and geometrical e[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2013-05We derive lower bounds on the density of sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the lack of significant clustering in the arrival directions of the highest energy events detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory. The density of uniformly d[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Aab, A. ; Abreu, P. ; Aglietta, M. ; Al Samarai, I. ; Albuquerque, I.F.M. ; Allekotte, I. ; Almela, A. ; Castillo, J. Alvarez ; Alvarez-Muiniz, J. ; otros, ... | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-10An in-situ calibration of a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna with a frequency coverage of 30 MHz to 80 MHz is performed. Such antennas are part of a radio station system used for detection of cosmic ray induced air showers at the Engineering [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón ; otros, ... | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-04We present a combined fit of a simple astrophysical model of UHECR sources to both the energy spectrum and mass composition data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The fit has been performed for energies above 5.10(18) eV, i.e. the region[...]texto impreso
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Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | American Institute of Physics | 2011Experimental results of the absolute air-fluorescence yield are given very often in different units (photons/MeV or photons/m) and for different wavelength intervals. In this work we present a comparison of available results normalized to its va[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2013A thorough search for large-scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above 10(18) eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For the first time, these large-scale anisotropy searches are performed[...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado, J. ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | American Physical Society | 2014We report a study of the distributions of the depth of maximum, X-max, of extensive air-shower profiles with energies above 10(17.8) eV as observed with the fluorescence telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The analysis method for selecti[...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado, J. ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2014-12-31Using the data taken at the Pierre Auger Observatory between December 2004 and December 2012, we have examined the implications of the distributions of depths of atmospheric shower maximum (X-max), using a hybrid technique, for composition and h[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime | Elsevier Science BV | 2012-04Atmospheric conditions at the site of a cosmic ray observatory must be known for reconstructing observed extensive air showers. The Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) is a global atmospheric model predicated on meteorological measurements an[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2016-06-14The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. These observations are compared to the data of the surface detector stations of the Observatory,[...]texto impreso
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We report a first measurement for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays of the correlation between the depth of shower maximum and the signal in the water Cherenkov stations of air-showers registered simultaneously by the fluorescence and the surface det[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Elsevier Science BV | 2013-12We describe a new method of identifying night-time clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instruments on the GOES-12 and GOES-13 satellites. We compare cloud. identifications resulting from our method to tho[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-02Atmospheric conditions, such as the pressure (P), temperature (T) or air density (rho proportional to P/T), affect the development of extended air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays. We study the impact of the atmospheric variations on t[...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado, J. ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2015-05-26Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array (SD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches through Auger data from 1 January 2004 until 20 June 2013. No neu[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2013-02To interpret the mean depth of cosmic ray air shower maximum and its dispersion, we parametrize those two observables as functions of the first two moments of the ln A distribution. We examine the goodness of this simple method through simulatio[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2012-12A thorough search for large-scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above 10(18) eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented. This search is performed as a function of both declination and right a[...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado, J. ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2015-04-01We present the results of an analysis of the large angular scale distribution of the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 4 EeV detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory including for the first time events with zenith angle between[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Springer Heidelberg | 2012-08The energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays above 10(18)eV is measured using the hybrid events collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory between November 2005 and September 2010. The large exposure of the Observatory allows the measurem[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Monasor, M. ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | American Physical Society | 2010-03-05We describe the measurement of the depth of maximum, X-max, of the longitudinal development of air showers induced by cosmic rays. Almost 4000 events above 10(18) eV observed by the fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory in coinci[...]texto impreso
Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10(18) eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Monasor, M. ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Elsevier Science BV | 2010-03-08We report a measurement of the flux of cosmic rays with unprecedented precision and Statistics using the Pierre Auger Observatory Based on fluorescence observations in coincidence with at least one Surface detector we derive a spectrum for energ[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | American Physical Society | 2012-08-10We report a measurement of the proton-air cross section for particle production at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon of 57 TeV. This is derived from the distribution of the depths of shower maxima observed with the Pierre Auger Observatory: [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | American Physical Society | 2016-06-14We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we obtain a radiation energy of 15.8 +/- 0.7 (st[...]texto impreso
Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Aranda, V. M. ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | Elsevier Science BV | 2015-07-01An experimental method to characterize the crosstalk and afterpulsing in silicon photomultipliers has been developed and applied to two detectors fabricated by Hamamatsu. An analytical model of optical crosstalk that we presented in a previous p[...]texto impreso
Optical crosstalk seriously limits the photon-counting resolution of silicon photomultipliers. In this work, realistic analytical models to describe the crosstalk effects on the response of these photodetectors are presented and compared with ex[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Morcuende, D. ; Nieto, D. ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Rosado, J. ; Saha, Lab ; Tejedor, L. A. ; otros, ... | Elsevier Science BV | 2019-09The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based veryhigh-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on th[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Aab, A. ; Abreu, P. ; Aglietta, M. ; Ahn, E.J. ; Al Samarai, I. ; Albuquerque, I.F.M. ; Allekotte, I. ; Allison, P. ; Almela, A. ; otros, ... | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-03AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array) is an upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory designed to extend its energy range of detection and to directly measure the muon content of the cosmic ray primary particle showers. The array wil[...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado, J. ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | American Physical Society | 2015-02-06We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at ultrahigh energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between 62° and 80°. The measurement is based on 174 hybrid events recorded simultaneously with [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2014-07-25The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory provides information about the longitudinal development of the muonic component of extensive air showers. Using the timing information from the flash analog-to-digital converter traces o[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2016-01To exploit the full potential of radio measurements of cosmic-ray air showers at MHz frequencies, a detector timing synchronization within 1 ns is needed. Large distributed radio detector arrays such as the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) r[...]texto impreso
Cosmic rays are atomic nuclei arriving from outer space that reach the highest energies observed in nature. Clues to their origin come from studying the distribution of their arrival directions. Using 3 x 10? cosmic rays with energies above 8 x [...]texto impreso
Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | Elsevier Science BV | 2014-03The absolute value of the air-fluorescence yield is a key parameter for the energy reconstruction of extensive air showers registered by fluorescence telescopes. In previous publications, we reported a detailed Monte Carlo simulation of the air-[...]texto impreso
Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Gallego, P. ; García Pinto, Diego ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | EDP Sciences | 2013-02-13The uncertainty in the absolute value of the air-fluorescence yield still puts a severe limit on the accuracy in the primary energy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The precise measurement of this parameter in laboratory is in turn conditioned [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Amer Physical Soc | 2014-03-14The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiation which can be observed with rather simple setups. The direction [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Franco Peláez, Francisco Javier ; López Moya, Marcos ; Mirabal Barrios, Néstor ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Tejedor Álvarez, Luis Ángel | American Astronomical Society | 2017-05-10We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX J1713.7?3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is paid t[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP Publising LTD | 2014We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than 60 degrees detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to muon[...]texto impreso
Morcuende, D. ; Rosado, J. ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | Elsevier Science BV | 2019-01Atmospheric fluorescence is usually neglected in the reconstruction of the signals registered by Cherenkov telescopes, both IACTs and wide-angle detector arrays. In this paper we quantify the fluorescence contribution to the total light recorded[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP Publishing | 2012-04Observations of cosmic rays arrival directions made with the Pierre Auger Observatory have previously provided evidence of anisotropy at the 99% CL using the correlation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with objects drawn from the Veron[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2016-01This paper presents the results of different searches for correlations between very high-energy neutrino candidates detected by IceCube and the highest-energy cosmic rays measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array. We first[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Elsevier Science BV | 2011-03We present the results of searches for dipolar-type anisotropies in different energy ranges above 2.5 x 10(17) eV with the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory, reporting on both the phase and the amplitude measurements of the [...]texto impreso
Martínez, S. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria | Elsevier Science BV | 1995-03-15Electromagnetic energy injected into the universe above a few hundred TeV is expected to pile up as ? radiation in a relatively narrow energy interval below 100 TeV due to its interaction with the 2.7^°K background radiation. We present an upper[...]texto impreso
Martínez Pabón, María Beatriz ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Fernández Sánchez, Paloma ; Fonseca, V. | Elsevier Science BV | 1995-03-16Electromagnetic energy injected into the universe above a few hundred TeV is expected to pile up as ? radiation in a relatively narrow energy interval below 100 TeV due to its interaction with the 2.7°K background radiation. We present an upper [...]texto impreso
Aranda, V. M. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | Springer | 2015-06-20Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-energy cosmic rays with E > = 6 x 10(19) eV by analyzing cosmic rays [...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón ; otros, ... | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-04A search for ultra-high energy photons with energies above 1 EeV is performed using nine years of data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory in hybrid operation mode. An unprecedented separation power between photon and hadron primaries is a[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP Publishing | 2012-08-10The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory can detect neutrinos with energy E_? between 10^17 eV and 10^20 eV from point-like sources across the sky south of +55 degrees and north of -65 degrees declinations. A search has been pe[...]texto impreso
Arganda, E. ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Blanco Ramos, Francisco ; García Pinto, Diego ; Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés ; Ortiz Ramis, Montserrat ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón | IOP publishing ltd | 2012-12-01A thorough search of the sky exposed at the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory reveals no statistically significant excess of events in any small solid angle that would be indicative of a flux of neutral particles from a discrete source. The se[...]