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The energy estimation procedures employed by different groups, for determining the energy of the primary $\gamma$-ray using a single atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope, include methods like polynomial fitting in SIZE and DISTANCE,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 V. K. Dhar , A. K. Tickoo , M. K. Koul , R. C. Rannot , K. K. Yadav , P. Chandra , B. P. Dubey , R. Koul

In this work, the ability of rare VHE gamma ray selection with neural network methods is investigated in the case when cosmic radiation flux strongly prevails (ratio up to {10^4} over the gamma radiation flux from a point source). This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 E. O. Gres , A. P. Kryukov , P. A. Volchugov , J. J. Dubenskaya , D. P. Zhurov , S. P. Polyakov , E. B. Postnikov , A. A. Vlaskina

We explore the potential of an artificial neural network (ANN) based method intelligence to probe the propagation of cosmic $\gamma$-ray photons in the extragalactic Universe. The journey of $\gamma$-rays emitted from a distant source like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 K K Singh , V K Dhar , P J Meintjes

Improving gamma-hadron separation is one of the most effective ways to enhance the performance of ground-based gamma-ray observatories. With over a decade of continuous operation, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has…

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is located at an altitude of 4100 meters in Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico. HAWC is an air shower array of 300 water Cherenkov detectors (WCD's), each with 4 photomultiplier tubes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Capistrán , I. Torres , L. Altamirano

The identification of $\gamma$-rays from the predominant hadronic-background is a key aspect in their ground-based detection using Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). While current methods are limited in their ability to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhay Mehta , Dan Parsons , Tim Lukas Holch , David Berge , Matthias Weidlich

A detailed case study of $\gamma$-hadron segregation for a ground based atmospheric Cherenkov telescope is presented. We have evaluated and compared various supervised machine learning methods such as the Random Forest method, Artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mradul Sharma , J. Nayak , M. K. Koul , S. Bose , Abhas Mitra

Neural networks have proved to be versatile and robust for particle separation in many experiments related to particle astrophysics. We apply these techniques to separate gamma rays from hadrons for the MAGIC Cerenkov Telescope. Two types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Boinee , F. Barbarino , A. De Angelis , A. Saggion , M. Zacchello

In this paper, we discuss an artificial intelligence based approach to constrain the redshift of blazars using combined $\gamma$--ray observations from the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) and ground based atmospheric Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-26 K K Singh , V K Dhar , P J Meintjes

The High Altitude Detection of Astronomical Radiation (HADAR) experiment is a refracting terrestrial telescope array based on the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique. It focuses the Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers…

Background showers triggered by hadrons represent over 99.9% of all particles arriving at ground-based gamma-ray observatories. An important stage in the data analysis of these observatories, therefore, is the removal of hadron-triggered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 T. Capistrán , K. L. Fan , J. T. Linnemann , I. Torres , P. M. Saz Parkinson , P. L. H. Yu

We present CosmicANNEstimator (Cosmological Parameters Artificial Neural Network Estimator), a machine learning approach for constraining cosmological parameters within the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) framework. Our methodology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Ashly Joseph , Albin Joseph , Christina Terese Joseph , John Paul Martin , Sunil Kumar PV , Sarthak Giri

Modern X-ray telescopes have detected hundreds of thousands of X-ray sources in the universe. However, current methods to classify these sources using the X-ray data themselves suffer problems - detailed X-ray spectroscopy of individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-04 Pavan R. Hebbar , Craig O. Heinke

In this paper we have introduced a novel method for gamma hadron separation in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) using Quantum Machine Learning. IACTs captures images of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced from very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Jashwanth S , Sudeep Ghosh , Neha Shah , Kavitha Yogaraj , Ankhi Roy

We compared convolutional neural networks to the classical boosted decision trees for the separation of atmospheric particle showers generated by gamma rays from the particle-induced background. We conduct the comparison of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Etienne Lyard , Roland Walter , Vitalii Sliusar , Nicolas Produit

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays record images from air showers initiated by gamma rays entering the atmosphere, allowing astrophysical sources to be observed at very high energies. To maximize IACT sensitivity,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-13 Aryeh Brill , Qi Feng , T. Brian Humensky , Bryan Kim , Daniel Nieto , Tjark Miener

To investigate GRBs in depth, it is crucial to develop an effective method for identifying GRBs accurately. Current criteria, e.g., onboard blind search, ground blind search, and target search, are limited by manually set thresholds and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Peng Zhang , Bing Li , RenZhou Gui , Shaolin Xiong , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xianggao Wang , Xiaobo Li , Ce Cai , Yi Zhao , Yanqiu Zhang , Wangchen Xue , Chao Zheng , Hongyu Zhao

The goal of this work is to investigate the possibility of improving current gamma/hadron discrimination based on their shower patterns recorded on the ground. To this end we propose the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Filipe Assunção , João Correia , Rúben Conceição , Mário Pimenta , Bernardo Tomé , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

We employ an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based technique to develop a pipeline for automated segregation of stars from the galaxies to be observed by Tel-Aviv University Ultra-Violet Experiment (TAUVEX). We use synthetic spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Archana Bora , Ranjan Gupta , Harinder P. Singh , K. Duorah

This study evaluates the use of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) for identifying signals resembling Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) within simulated astrophysical datasets in the form of light curves. The task addressed here focuses on…

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