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Since taking its first cosmic ray data in 2011, LOFAR has demonstrated the potential of radio measurements of cosmic ray air showers. With analysis techniques developed along the way, high-precision results on their primary energy and the depth of shower maximum became available, putting the radio technique in line with the state of the art in this field.
In this talk I will review the LOFAR results on cosmic rays, discuss the plans for making use of the new capabilities of LOFAR 2.0, and present simulation results for the next big radio telescope, the SKA.
With the SKA-Low radio telescope currently being built in Australia, the opportunity arises to detect cosmic rays with an antenna array that is over an order of magnitude more dense. It has nearly 60,000 antennas in a circle of 1 km diameter.
I will show recent results of applying the techniques developed to maturity for LOFAR to a detailed simulation study for SKA.
This serves as a baseline for the performance of SKA; new analysis techniques are being developed that aim to fully exploit the wealth of data from SKA antennas.
