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Pachmarhi Array of \v Cerenkov Telescopes (PACT) consists of a 5$\times$5 array of \v Cerenkov telescopes deployed over an area of 100 $m$ $\times$ 80 $m$, in the form of a rectangular matrix. The experiment is based on atmospheric \v…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation gamma-ray observatory. CTA will incorporate about 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) at a southern site, and about 20 in the north. Previous IACT experiments have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga , Dejan Dezman

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy (<~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. Most of the remaining background in this energy range results from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Paolo Cumani , Abelardo Moralejo

The upgrades of the Belle experiment and the KEKB accelerator aim to increase the data set of the experiment by the factor 50. This will be achieved by increasing the luminosity of the accelerator which requires a significant upgrade of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-19 Dmytro Levit , Igor Konorov , Daniel Greenwald , Stephan Paul

We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

The atmospheric monitoring devices for the planned calibration system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are undergoing intensive development, prototyping and testing. The All-Sky Cameras, the Sun/Moon Photometers and the FRAM…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, aimed at improving on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude…

The RICH detectors of the LHCb experiment provide identification of hadrons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions in the LHC at CERN over a wide momentum range (2 to 100 GeV/c). Cherenkov light is collected on photon detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 L. Cassina

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently proposed computational imaging technique with both high resolution and wide field-of-view. In current FP experimental setup, the dark-field images with high-angle illuminations are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Yan Zhang , An Pan , Ming Lei , Baoli Yao

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope built on-site, the Large Size Telescope 1, is currently under commissioning and taking its first scientific data. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Gilles Maurin , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia. It consists of four 12-m telescopes (CT1-4), which started operations in 2003, and a…

Lensless cameras are a class of imaging devices that shrink the physical dimensions to the very close vicinity of the image sensor by replacing conventional compound lenses with integrated flat optics and computational algorithms. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Qiang Fu , Dong-Ming Yan , Wolfgang Heidrich

The novel camera architecture facilitates the development of machine vision. Instead of capturing frame sequences in the temporal domain as traditional video cameras, FourierCam directly measures the pixel-wise temporal spectrum of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Chengyang Hu , Honghao Huang , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

The water Cherenkov detector array (WCDA) is one of the key detectors in the large high altitude air shower observatory (LHAASO), which is proposed for very high gamma ray source survey. In WCDA, there are more than 3000 photomultiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 Shengzhi Zhou , Lei Zhao , Yuxiang Guo , Ruoshi Dong , Boyu Cheng , Jiajun Qin , Sifan Qian , Shubin Liu , Qi An

The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a novel dual mirror optics design which reduces the plate scale and allows for the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Colin B. Adams , Giovanni Ambrosi , Michelangelo Ambrosio , Carla Aramo , Timothy Arlen , Wystan Benbow , Bruna Bertucci , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Jonathan Biteau , Massimiliano Bitossi , Alfonso Boiano , Carmela Bonavolontà , Richard Bose , Aurelien Bouvier , Mario Buscemi , Aryeh Brill , Anthony M. Brown , James H. Buckley , Rodolfo Canestrari , Massimo Capasso , Mirco Caprai , Paolo Coppi , Corbin E. Covault , Davide Depaoli , Leonardo Di Venere , Manel Errando , Stephen Fegan , Qi Feng , Emanuele Fiandrini , Amy Furniss , Markus Garczarczyk , Alasdair Gent , Nicola Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Enrico Giro , Robert Halliday , Olivier Hervet , Gareth Hughes , Simone Incardona , Thomas B. Humensky , Maria Ionica , Weidong Jin , Caitlin A. Johnson , David Kieda , Frank Krennrich , Andrey Kuznetsov , Jon Lapington , Francesco Licciulli , Serena Loporchio , Giovanni Marsella , Vincenzo Masone , Kevin Meagher , Thomas Meures , Brent A. W. Mode , Samuel A. I. Mognet , Reshmi Mukherjee , Akira Okumura , Francesca R. Pantaleo , Riccardo Paoletti , Federico Di Pierro , Deivid Ribeiro , Luca Riitano , Emmet Roache , Duncan Ross , Julien Rousselle , Andrea Rugliancich , Marcos Santander , Michael Schneider , Harm Schoorlemmer , Ruo-Yu Shang , Brandon Stevenson , Leonardo Stiaccini , Hiroyasu Tajima , Leslie P. Taylor , Julian Thornhill , Luca Tosti , Giovanni Tripodo , Valerio Vagelli , Massimo Valentino , Justin Vandenbroucke , Vladimir V. Vassiliev , Scott P. Wakely , Jason J. Watson , Richard White , Patrick Wilcox , David A. Williams , Matthew Wood , Peter Yu , Adrian Zink

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for the construction of a next generation VHE gamma ray observatory with full sky coverage. Its aim is improving by about one order of magnitude the sensitivity of the existing installations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 The CTA Consortium

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the planned next-generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, covering a photon energy range of ~20 GeV to above 100 TeV. CTA will consist of the order of 100 telescopes of three sizes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Pühlhofer

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) represent a class of instruments which are dedicated to the ground-based observation of cosmic VHE gamma ray emission based on the detection of the Cherenkov radiation produced in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 C. Arcaro , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , M. Doro , C. Manea , M. Mariotti , R. Rando , I. Reichardt , D. Tescaro

A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based photodetector is being built to demonstrate its feasibility for an alternative silicon-based camera design for the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It has been designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Mallamaci , B. Baibussinov , G. Busetto , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , F. Di Pierro , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , E. Prandini , R. Rando , P. Vallania , C. F. Vigorito

A Central Laser Facility is a system composed of a laser placed at a certain distance from a light-detector array, emitting fast light pulses, typically in the vertical direction, with the aim to calibrate that array. During calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-28 Markus Gaug