The Auger Radio Infill SKALA Extension (ARISE): Science Case and Instrumentation (ARENA 2026)

@misc{collaboration2026auger,
  title = {{The Auger Radio Infill SKALA Extension (ARISE): Science Case and Instrumentation (ARENA 2026)}},
  author = {der for the Pierre Auger Collaboration},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.31031},
  eprint = {2608.31031},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31031},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - The Auger Radio Infill SKALA Extension (ARISE): Science Case and Instrumentation (ARENA 2026)
AU  - der for the Pierre Auger Collaboration
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/31
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.31031
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31031
AB  - The Auger Radio Infill SKALA Extension (ARISE) at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina was deployed in 2025 and measures cosmic-ray air showers in the energy region of the Galactic-to-extragalactic transition. ARISE is comprised of 18 SKALA-2 antennas featuring two polarization channels each, deployed within 100m of a surface detector station in the enhancement area of the Pierre Auger Observatory. This area of the surface array features a denser spacing of 433m between surface stations, each equipped with underground muon detectors. One of these surface detector stations provides a trigger for simultaneous readout of all ARISE antenna channels. The wide frequency range of ARISE, from $50$ to 350MHz, includes the sub-band of optimum signal-to-noise ratio for air-shower radio emission against the Galactic radio background. In combination with the dense antenna spacing, this enables a relatively low detection threshold, and ARISE aims at demonstrating full detection efficiency for near-vertical air showers above 100 PeV. As an advantage over the current radio detectors at Auger, which are more efficient for inclined air showers, this would enable low systematic uncertainties for physics analysis combining ARISE radio measurements with coincident measurements of the underground muon detectors in the same area. In this presentation, we will provide an overview over the ARISE instrumentation operating at the Pierre Auger Observatory and will outline the science goals.
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