| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8175013 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2014 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Construction was completed during summer 2013 on the Telescope Array RAdar (TARA) bi-static radar observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). TARA is co-located with the Telescope Array, the largest “conventional” cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, in radio-quiet Western Utah. TARA employs an 8Â MW Effective Radiated Power (ERP) VHF transmitter and smart receiver system based on a 250Â MS/s data acquisition system in an effort to detect the scatter of sounding radiation by UHECR-induced atmospheric ionization. TARA seeks to demonstrate bi-static radar as a useful new remote sensing technique for UHECRs. In this report, we describe the design and performance of the TARA transmitter and receiver systems.
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Authors
R. Abbasi, M. Abou Bakr Othman, C. Allen, L. Beard, J. Belz, D. Besson, M. Byrne, B. Farhang-Boroujeny, A. Gardner, W.H. Gillman, W. Hanlon, J. Hanson, C. Jayanthmurthy, S. Kunwar, S.L. Larson, I. Myers, S. Prohira, K. Ratzlaff, D. Von Maluski,