Author/Authors :
Abbasi، نويسنده , , R. and Othman، نويسنده , , M. Abou Bakr and Allen، نويسنده , , C. Mary Beard، نويسنده , , L. and Belz، نويسنده , , Michael J. and Besson، نويسنده , , D. and Byrne، نويسنده , , M. and Farhang-Boroujeny، نويسنده , , B. and Gardner، نويسنده , , A. and Gillman، نويسنده , , W.H. and Hanlon، نويسنده , , W. Miachel Hanson، نويسنده , , J. and Jayanthmurthy، نويسنده , , C. and Kunwar، نويسنده , , S. and Larson، نويسنده , , S.L. and Myers، نويسنده , , I. and Prohira، نويسنده , , S. and Ratzlaff، نويسنده , , K. and Sokolsky، نويسنده , , P. and Takai، نويسنده , , H. and Thomson، نويسنده , , G.B. and Von Maluski، نويسنده , , D.، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Construction was completed during summer 2013 on the Telescope Array RAdar (TARA) bi-static radar observatory for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR). TARA is co-located with the Telescope Array, the largest “conventional” cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, in radio-quiet Western Utah. TARA employs an 8 MW Effective Radiated Power (ERP) VHF transmitter and smart receiver system based on a 250 MS/s data acquisition system in an effort to detect the scatter of sounding radiation by UHECR-induced atmospheric ionization. TARA seeks to demonstrate bi-static radar as a useful new remote sensing technique for UHECRs. In this report, we describe the design and performance of the TARA transmitter and receiver systems.
Keywords :
FPGA , Cosmic ray , Radar , Chirp , digital signal processing
