Table information for 'auger3.scaler'

General

Table Description: For every Auger station during every second, the scalers record the number of times that the amplitude of the signal is larger than 3 ADC counts, corresponding to an energy deposit of about 15 MeV, and smaller than 21 ADC counts, corresponding to an energy deposit of about 100 MeV. This table allows one to study the temporal behavior of the number of counts, which is modulated by terrestrial and extraterrestrial phenomena.

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Resource Description: The Pierre Auger Open Data is the public release of 10% of the Pierre Auger Observatory cosmic-ray data published in recent scientific papers and at International conferences. The Pierre Auger Observatory, located on a vast, high-altitude plain in the Province of Mendoza in Argentina, is the world's largest cosmic ray observatory and measures the extensive air-showers produced by cosmic rays above ~1e17 eV. Here, we include data from the two surface detector (SD) setups, SD750 and SD1500, as well as the flourescence detectors (FD). For both of these, we also host the full json event descriptors. In addition there is a table of highly inclined events and the scaler readouts. See also the portal page https://opendata.auger.org.

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This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2023arXiv230916294T (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:auger3_scaler,
  year=2024,
  title={Scaler Data},
  author={The Pierre Auger Collaboration},
  url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/auger3.scaler},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
inc_time Time Unix time in seconds (seconds since 1st Jan 1970, without leap seconds) s time.epoch
rate_corr Corr. Rate Corrected scaler rate count/(m**2.s) phot.flux
array_fraction Active % Fraction of array in operation % instr;arith.ratio
rate_uncorr Uncorr. Rate average detector scaler rate, uncorrected count/s phot.flux
pressure p Barometric pressure at observatory hPa phys.pressure;obs.atmos

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