Simulation of combined radio and radar signals at the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays

arXiv:2607.24955 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-27 · Read on arXiv

K. Nivedita, I. Loudon, J. Loonen, P. Allison, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, A. Connolly, A. Cummings, C. Deaconu, S. de Kockere, K. D. de Vries, I. Esteban, D. Frikken, C. Hast, E. Huesca Santiago, C. -Y. Kuo, A. Kyriacou, U. A. Latif, V. Lukic, C. McLennan, K. Mulrey, J. Nam, S. Prohira, J. P. Ralston, M. F. H. Seikh, N. Shahid, R. S. Stanley, J. Stoffels, S. Toscano, D. van den Broeck, N. van Eijndhoven, S. Wissel

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-27

Code: https://github.com/uzairlatif90/IceRayTracing

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Radar Echo Telescope — 12× in this paper
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Frequency Dependence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
• High-Energy and Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos
• Observation of In-ice Askaryan Radiation from High-Energy Cosmic Rays
• Initial performance of the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays, RET-CR
• Radio detection of air showers with the ARIANNA experiment on the Ross Ice Shelf
• Learning Contextual Bandits in a Non-stationary Environment
• A Scintillator and Radio Enhancement of the IceCube Surface Detector Array
• A GPU-based Calculation Method for Near Field Effects of Cherenkov Radiation Induced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
• Simulating radio emission from air showers with CoREAS
• General description of electromagnetic radiation processes based on instantaneous charge acceleration in `endpoints'
• RadioPropa - A Modular Raytracer for In-Matter Radio Propagation

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