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    A lunar radio experiment with the Parkes radio telescope for the LUNASKA project

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    Authors
    Bray, J.
    Ekers, Ronald
    Roberts, P.
    Reynolds, J.
    James, C.
    Phillips, C.
    Protheroe, R.
    McFadden, R.
    Aartsen, M.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Bray, J. and Ekers, R. and Roberts, P. and Reynolds, J. and James, C. and Phillips, C. and Protheroe, R. et al. 2015. A lunar radio experiment with the Parkes radio telescope for the LUNASKA project. Astroparticle Physics. 65: pp. 22-39.
    Source Title
    Astroparticle Physics
    DOI
    10.1016/j.astropartphys.2014.11.008
    ISSN
    0927-6505
    School
    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Engineering)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10707
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    Abstract

    © 2014 Elsevier B.V. We describe an experiment using the Parkes radio telescope in the 1.2-1.5 GHz frequency range as part of the LUNASKA project, to search for nanosecond-scale pulses from particle cascades in the Moon, which may be triggered by ultra-high-energy astroparticles. Through the combination of a highly sensitive multi-beam radio receiver, a purpose-built backend and sophisticated signal-processing techniques, we achieve sensitivity to radio pulses with a threshold electric field strength of 0.0053 µV/m/MHz, lower than previous experiments by a factor of three. We observe no pulses in excess of this threshold in observations with an effective duration of 127 h. The techniques we employ, including compensating for the phase, dispersion and spectrum of the expected pulse, are relevant for future lunar radio experiments.

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