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The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) at the Pierre Auger Observatory is an array of 153 radio-antenna stations that measure the 30-80 MHz radio emission produced in extensive air showers in the energy range between 0.1 and 10 EeV. It has been taking data for over a decade now. In this contribution, we present the recent results of AERA. We show the measurements of the depths of the shower maxima (Xmax) using the radio footprint and using interferometry, showing compatibility and competitiveness with the established fluorescence detection method. We also show the measurement of the stability of the radio signal over more than a decade determined using the galactic radio background as a calibration source, demonstrating that a radio detector can be used to lower systematic uncertainties on the energy scale of, for example, fluorescence and water-Cherenkov detectors. Furthermore, we present observations of solar activity and the effects it has on radio detectors in the 30-80 MHz band during the solar cycle.
