Radio Morphing: Fast computation of inclined air shower radio emission
astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM
Submitted: 2026-01-10
Updated: 2026-10-11
Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Journal ref: Astropart. Phys. 184 (2027) 103291
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2026.103276
Code: https://github.com/simonchiche/RadioMorphing
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: The preparation of the next-generation of large-scale radio experiments requires running a large number of simulations to explore multiple detector configurations over vast areas and develop novel
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Abstract
The preparation of the next-generation of large-scale radio experiments requires running a large number of simulations to explore multiple detector configurations over vast areas and develop novel methods for the reconstruction of air shower parameters. While Monte Carlo simulations are accurate and reliable tools, they are too computationally expensive to explore the full parameter space of these new detectors within a reasonable timescale, and faster and more efficient methods are needed. We introduce a new version of Radio Morphing, a semi-analytical tool designed to simulate the radio emission of any cosmic-ray induced air shower with zenith angle θ>60, at any desired antenna position, from the simulation data of a few reference showers at given positions. This version incorporate refined scaling laws of the radio emission with the shower zenith angle, a novel interpolation method, the implementation of the charge-excess mechanism and the possibility to enable shower-to-shower fluctuations. We present the latest performances of Radio Morphing, tuned for a GRAND-like detector, which now provides an estimation of air shower radio signals four orders of magnitude faster than standard Monte Carlo simulations, while keeping an accuracy on the peak amplitude better than 17% on unfiltered traces, better than 13% in the [50 - 200] MHz band, and below about 10% in the [30 - 80] MHz band.
Sources
- A LOFAR-style reconstruction of cosmic-ray air showers with SKA-Low
- Radio detection of cosmic rays with the Auger Engineering Radio Array
- Monte Carlo simulations of radio pulses in atmospheric showers using ZHAireS
- Simulating radio emission from air showers with CoREAS
- Analytic calculation of radio emission from parameterized extensive air showers, a tool to extract shower parameters
- SMIET: Fast and accurate synthesis of radio pulses from extensive air shower using simulated templates
- Synthesis of radio signals from extensive air showers using previously computed microscopic simulations
- Universal lateral distribution of energy deposit in air showers and its application to shower reconstruction
- Symmetrizing the signal distribution of radio emission from inclined air showers
- Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy
- Polarisation signatures in radio for inclined cosmic-ray induced air-shower identification
- Radio-Morphing: a fast, efficient and accurate tool to compute the radio signals from air-showers
- Simulation of Radiation Energy Release in Air Showers
- Loss of coherence and change in emission physics for radio emission from very inclined cosmic-ray air showers
- Density and magnetic intensity dependence of radio pulses induced by energetic air showers
- Radio-detection of neutrino-induced air showers: the influence of topography
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