Energy estimation of UHE cosmic rays using the atmospheric fluorescence technique

Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arxiv.org in 1999 by Chihwa Song Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.We use the CORSIKA air shower simulation program to review the method for assigning energies to ultra-high energy cosmic rays viewed with the air fluorescence technique. This technique uses the atmosphere as a calorimeter, and we determine the corrections that must be made to the calorimetric energy to yield the primary cosmic-ray energy.C. Song, Z. Cao, B. R. Dawson, B. E. Fick, P. Sokolsky, X. Zhanghttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/523319/description#descriptio