Gadolinium loaded Cherenkov detectors for neutron monitoring in high energy air showers (2022)
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Stowell, P., Fargher, S., Thompson, L., Brown, A., & Chadwick, P. (2022). Gadolinium loaded Cherenkov detectors for neutron monitoring in high energy air showers. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(02), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/02/t02005

Monitoring of high energy cosmic ray neutrons is of particular interest for cosmic ray water Cherenkov detectors as intense bundles of delayed neutrons have been found to arrive after the initial passage of a high energy air shower. In this paper we... Read More about Gadolinium loaded Cherenkov detectors for neutron monitoring in high energy air showers.

Robust diffraction-limited near-infrared-to-near-ultraviolet wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms—Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope performance (2020)
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Romualdez, L. J., Benton, S. J., Brown, A. M., Clark, P., Damaren, C. J., Eifler, T., …Tam, S. (2020). Robust diffraction-limited near-infrared-to-near-ultraviolet wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms—Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope performance. Review of Scientific Instruments, 91(3), Article 034501. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139711

At a fraction of the total cost of an equivalent orbital mission, scientific balloon-borne platforms, operating above 99.7% of the Earth’s atmosphere, offer attractive, competitive, and effective observational capabilities—namely, space-like seeing,... Read More about Robust diffraction-limited near-infrared-to-near-ultraviolet wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms—Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope performance.

A search for Centaurus A-like features in the spectra of Fermi-LAT detected radio galaxies (2020)
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Rulten, C. B., Brown, A. M., & Chadwick, P. M. (2020). A search for Centaurus A-like features in the spectra of Fermi-LAT detected radio galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(2), 4666-4679. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa054

Motivated by the detection of a hardening in the γ-ray spectrum of the radio galaxy CentaurusA, we have analysed ∼10 years of Fermi-LAT observations of 26 radio galaxies to search for similar spectral features. We find that the majority of the radio... Read More about A search for Centaurus A-like features in the spectra of Fermi-LAT detected radio galaxies.

An open source toolkit for the tracking, termination and recovery of high altitude balloon flights and payloads (2019)
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Clark, P., Funk, M., Funk, B., Funk, T., Meadows, R., Brown, A., …Netterfield, C. (2019). An open source toolkit for the tracking, termination and recovery of high altitude balloon flights and payloads. Journal of Instrumentation, 14(04), Article P04003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/04/p04003

We present an open source toolkit of flight-proven electronic devices which can be used to track, terminate and recover high altitude balloon flights and payloads. Comprising a beacon, pyrotechnic and non-pyrotechnic cut-down devices plus associated... Read More about An open source toolkit for the tracking, termination and recovery of high altitude balloon flights and payloads.