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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), currently in its Preparatory Phase, will be the first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays from galactic and extragalactic sources. The international consortium behind CTA is preparing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude, while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-18 Fabian Schüssler

Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and perhaps a unique probe for new physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are already giving results in the physics of acceleration of cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michele Doro

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a pair-conversion gamma-ray detector designed to explore the gamma-ray universe in the 20 MeV-300 GeV energy band. The Tracker subsystem of the LAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyasu Tajima , for GLAST Tracker Team

Periodograms are used as a key significance assessment and visualisation tool to display the significant periodicities in unevenly sampled time series. We introduce a framework of periodograms, called "Agatha", to disentangle periodic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Fabo Feng , Mikko Tuomi , Hugh R. A. Jones

Rydberg-aided atomic electrometry using alkali-metal atoms is gaining increased research interest for detecting external electric fields. However, the inability of Rydberg probes to detect phase is a serious impediment to their realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Peter Vouras , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Detectors for gamma-ray astronomy are complex: they often comprise multiple sub-systems and utilize new and/or custom-developed detector components and readout electronics. Gamma rays are typically not detected directly: ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Eric A. Charles , Henrike Fleischhack , Clio Sleator

Accelerated degradation testing (ADT) is one of the major approaches in reliability engineering which allows accurate estimation of reliability characteristics of highly reliable systems within a relatively short time. The testing data are…

Applications · Statistics 2021-06-28 Helmi Shat , Norbert Gaffke

We present the SEMLA (Signal Extraction using Machine Learning for ALTO) analysis method, developed for the detection of $\rm E>200\,GeV$ $\gamma$ rays in the context of the ALTO wide-field-of-view atmospheric shower array R&D project. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 M. Senniappan , Y. Becherini , M. Punch , S. Thoudam , T. Bylund , G. Kukec Mezek , J. -P. Ernenwein

Automatic meter reading technology is not yet widespread. Gas, electricity, or water accumulation meters reading is mostly done manually on-site either by an operator or by the homeowner. In some countries, the operator takes a picture as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Ashkan Ebadi , Patrick Paul , Sofia Auer , Stéphane Tremblay

In an ideal germanium detector, fully-absorbed monoenergetic gamma-rays will appear in the measured spectrum as a narrow peak, broadened into a Gaussian of width determined only by the statistical properties of charge cloud generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-03 Steven E. Boggs , Sean N. Pike

Gamma-ray Transient Monitor (GTM) is an all-sky monitor onboard the Distant Retrograde Orbit-A (DRO-A) satellite with the scientific objective of detecting gamma-ray transients ranging from 20 keV to 1 MeV. GTM is equipped with 5 Gamma-ray…

Subgraph matching has garnered increasing attention for its diverse real-world applications. Given the dynamic nature of real-world graphs, addressing evolving scenarios without incurring prohibitive overheads has been a focus of research.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Linshan Qiu , Lu Chen , Hailiang Jie , Xiangyu Ke , Yunjun Gao , Yang Liu , Zetao Zhang

Dataflow tracking with Dynamic Taint Analysis (DTA) is an important method in systems security with many applications, including exploit analysis, guided fuzzing, and side-channel information leak detection. However, DTA is fundamentally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Gabriel Ryan , Abhishek Shah , Dongdong She , Koustubha Bhat , Suman Jana

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) network is a collaboration between the five largest radio telescopes in Europe aiming to study the astrophysics of millisecond pulsars and to detect cosmological gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-04 K. Lazaridis

GRETA, the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array, is an array of highly-segmented HPGe detectors designed to track {\gamma}-rays emitted in beam-physics experiments. Its high detection efficiency and state-of-the-art position resolution make it…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-30 Robert Crabbs

The Gamma-Ray Integrated Detectors (GRID) are a space project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky in the multi-messenger astronomy era using multiple detectors on-board CubeSats. The second GRID detector, GRID-02, was launched in 2020.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Huaizhong Gao , Dongxin Yang , Jiaxing Wen , Xutao Zheng , Ming Zeng , Jirong Cang , Weihe Zeng , Xiaofan Pan , Qimin Zhou , Yihui Liu , Hua Feng , Binbin Zhang , Zhi Zeng , Yang Tian , GRID Collaboration

The purpose of this master thesis is to simulate suitable nuclear reactions for a commissioning experiment, to be performed with the AGATA gamma-ray tracking spectrometer. The main aim of the work is to find a reaction, which gives large…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-29 Ali Al-Adili

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Andrea Zoli , Sera Markoff , Marc Ribo , Susumu Inoue , Paola Grandi , Giovanni De Cesare