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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 767, Issue -, Pages 322-338Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2014.08.015
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Cosmic ray; FPGA; Radar; Digital signal processing; Chirp
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [NSF/PHY-0969865, NSF/MRI-1126353]
- W.M. Keck Foundation
- [NSF/REU-1263394]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1126353] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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