Bäcker, Thomas: Weather corrections for a point source search at the Pierre Auger ObservatoryWetterkorrekturen für die Suche nach Punktquellen mit dem Pierre Auger-Observatorium. 2010
Inhalt
- Abstract
- Contents
- Introduction
- Ultra–High Energy Cosmic Radiation
- Elemental Composition of Cosmic Rays
- Extensive Air Showers
- Cosmic Ray Propagation and Particle Acceleration
- Astroparticle Sources
- Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum
- Detection Techniques
- Pierre Auger Observatory
- Sources of Weather Data
- Climatic Site Characteristics
- Weather Stations
- Deviations of Weather Station Data
- Ideal Gas Approximation
- Temperature Information from SD Stations
- Deconvolution of SD Station Temperatures
- Construction of the Convolution Kernel
- Residual Temperature Uncertainty
- Summary
- Weather Corrections
- Atmospheric Effects on EAS
- Sensitivity of the SD (Surface Detector)
- Variations of the Atmospheric Pressure
- Variations of the Atmospheric Density
- Impact on S1000
- Impact on the Event Rate
- Determination of the Parameters , and
- Impact on Zenith Angle Distributions
- Dataset
- Lowest Energy Cut
- Selection of a Subsample Cut Parameter
- X2 Maximisation
- Ansatz for a Compensation
- Parameter Estimation for pE
- Estimation of the Parameter Uncertainty
- Results
- Side Effects of the Compensation
- Summary
- Application to the Search for Point Sources
- Galactic Centre
- Field of View
- On–Off Method
- Aperture Weighting
- Application to Isotropic Datasets
- Generating Isotropic Datasets
- Li–Ma Significance of Isotropic Datasets
- Li–Ma Significance of Isotropic Datasets, Corrections Applied
- Summary
- Summary
- GZK Horizon for Protons
- Weather Databases
- Data from Weather Stations
- Zenith Angle Uncertainties
- Zenith Angle Distributions
- Li–Ma Significance
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Acronyms
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgement