The AIRES system for air shower simulations. An update

Abstract

A report on the characteristics of ultra-high energy air showers simulated with the current version of the AIRES program is presented. The AIRES system includes a fast simulating program, originally designed on the basis of the well-known MOCCA program, and progressively improved and tested. The AIRES algorithms are briefly described and some results coming from the simulations are analyzed.

Contribution to the 27th ICRC (Hamburg, August 7-15, 2001)