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Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2016
Publisher: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Book Volume: 11
Article Number: ARTN P01018
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/P01018
To 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) rely on timing via the Global Positioning System (GPS) for the synchronization of individual detector station clocks. Unfortunately, GPS timing is expected to have an accuracy no better than about 5 ns. In practice, in particular in AERA, the GPS clocks exhibit drifts on the order of tens of ns. We developed a technique to correct for the GPS drifts, and an independent method is used to cross-check that indeed we reach a nanosecond-scale timing accuracy by this correction. First, we operate a "beacon transmitter" which emits defined sine waves detected by AERA antennas recorded within the physics data. The relative phasing of these sine waves can be used to correct for GPS clock drifts. In addition to this, we observe radio pulses emitted by commercial airplanes, the position of which we determine in real time from Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcasts intercepted with a software-defined radio. From the known source location and the measured arrival times of the pulses we determine relative timing offsets between radio detector stations. We demonstrate with a combined analysis that the two methods give a consistent timing calibration with an accuracy of 2 ns or better. Consequently, the beacon method alone can be used in the future to continuously determine and correct for GPS clock drifts in each individual event measured by AERA.
APA:
Aab, A., Abreu, P., Aglietta, M., Ahn, E.J., Al Samarai, I., Albuquerque, I.F.M.,... Zuccarello, F. (2016). Nanosecond-level time synchronization of autonomous radio detector stations for extensive air showers. Journal of Instrumentation, 11. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/P01018
MLA:
Aab, A., et al. "Nanosecond-level time synchronization of autonomous radio detector stations for extensive air showers." Journal of Instrumentation 11 (2016).
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