Abstract

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is an antenna array spread over an area of about 1 km2. The array is placed at the Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic rays and Gamma Astronomy (TAIGA) and detects the radio emission of air showers in the band of 30 to 80 MHz. During the last years it was shown that a sparse array such as Tunka-Rex is capable of reconstructing the parameters of the primary particle as accurate as the modern instruments. Based on these results we continue developing our data analysis. Our next goal is the reconstruction of cosmic-ray energy spectrum observed only by a radio instrument. Taking a step towards it, we develop a model of aperture of our instrument and test it against hybrid TAIGA observations and Monte-Carlo simulations. In the present work we give an overview of the current status and results for the last five years of operation of Tunka-Rex and discuss prospects of the cosmic-ray energy estimation with sparse radio arrays.

Highlights

  • Digital radio antenna arrays are a rapidly developing instrument for observation and study of ultra-high energy messengers in PeV-EeV range [1, 2]

  • Tunka-Rex is a radio antenna array designed for detecting cosmic rays

  • It is located at the site of the TAIGA detector [3] at the Tunka valley in Russia

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Introduction

Digital radio antenna arrays are a rapidly developing instrument for observation and study of ultra-high energy messengers in PeV-EeV range [1, 2]. Tunka-Rex is a radio antenna array designed for detecting cosmic rays. As antenna type we use SALLA [4] operating in the band of 30–80 MHz. The present configuration of Tunka-Rex detector is shown in the Fig. 1. 2. Highlights of Recent Results Some important updates of the analysis have been done in Tunka-Rex. Recently we developed a method of template analysis of the data.

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