English
Related papers

Related papers: Gamma/hadron segregation for a ground based imagin…

200 papers

The paper describes an application of the tree classification method Random Forest (RF), as used in the analysis of data from the ground-based gamma telescope MAGIC. In such telescopes, cosmic gamma-rays are observed and have to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Albert

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes record an enormous number of cosmic-ray background events. Suppressing these background events while retaining $\gamma$-rays is key to achieving good sensitivity to faint $\gamma$-ray sources. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Maria Krause , Elisa Pueschel , Gernot Maier

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

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

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

In gamma ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes, machine learning models are needed to guess what kind of particles generated the detected light, and their energies and directions. The focus in this work is on the classification task,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-11 Francesco Visconti

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

The purpose of this paper is to review the most popular deep learning methods used to analyze astroparticle data obtained with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and provide references to the original papers.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 A. P. Kryukov , A. P. Demichev , V. A. Ilyin

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

Gamma-ray astronomy from hundreds of GeV to PeV is confined to ground-based experiments that detect air showers induced by $\gamma$-rays entering Earth's atmosphere. While particle detector arrays feature huge detection areas, accurately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Markus Pirke , Youngwan Son , Jonas Glombitza , Martin Schneider , Ian James Watson , Christopher van Eldik

The gamma/hadron separation in the imaging air Cherenkov telescope technique is based on differences between images of a hadronic shower and a gamma induced electromagnetic cascade. One may expect for a large telescope that a detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dorota Sobczynska

In recent years, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have discovered a rich diversity of very high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters in the sky. These instruments image Cherenkov light emitted by gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-27 Stefan Ohm , Christopher van Eldik , Kathrin Egberts

In this work we compare two open source machine learning libraries, PyTorch and TensorFlow, as software platforms for rejecting hadron background events detected by imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Monte Carlo simulation for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 E. B. Postnikov , A. P. Kryukov , S. P. Polyakov , D. A. Shipilov , D. P. Zhurov

Three different analysis techniques for Atmospheric Imaging System are presented. The classical Hillas parameters based technique is shown to be robust and efficient, but more elaborate techniques can improve the sensitivity of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathieu de Naurois

In this paper we present a new method for ground based gamma ray astronomy based only on atmospheric Cherenkov light flux analysis. The Cherenkov light flux densities in extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by different primaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Mishev , S. Mavrodiev , J. Stamenov

Telescopes based on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (IACTs) detect images of the atmospheric showers generated by gamma rays and cosmic rays as they are absorbed by the atmosphere. The much more frequent cosmic-ray events form…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , A. Brill , B. Kim , T. B. Humensky

Cherenkov gamma telescope observes high energy gamma rays, taking advantage of the radiation emitted by charged particles produced inside the electromagnetic showers initiated by the gammas, and developing in the atmosphere. The detector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Emmanuel Dadzie , Kelvin Kwakye

In this work, we present a new, high performance algorithm for background rejection in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. We build on the already popular machine-learning techniques used in gamma-ray astronomy by the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 R. D. Parsons , S. Ohm

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

Monocular vision based road detection methods are mostly based on machine learning methods, relying on classification and feature extraction accuracy, and suffer from appearance, illumination and weather changes. Traditional methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prassanna Ganesh Ravishankar , Antonio M. Lopez , Gemma M. Sanchez
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›