1997/12/30 by A. Cillis, S. J. Sciutto, Cillis, A. +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computational Physics and Python Applications #FOS: Physical sciences #Radio Wave Propagation Studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712345
22 pages, 14 figures
arxiv created 1997/12/30 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The influence of the geomagnetic field on the development of air showers is studied. The well known International Geomagnetic Reference Field was included in the AIRES air shower simulation program as an auxiliary tool to allow calculating very accurate estimations of the geomagnetic field given the geographic coordinates, altitude above sea level and date of a given event. Some test simulations made for representative cases indicate that some quantities like the lateral distribution of muons experiment significant modifications when the geomagnetic field is taken into account.