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Horizon-T is an innovative detector system constructed to study Extensive Air Showers (EAS) in the energy range above 10^16 eV coming from a wide range of zenith angles (0 - 85 degrees). The system is located at Tien Shan high-altitude…

Next-generation air-shower detectors, such as the Global Cosmic Ray Observatory (GCOS) and the Probing Extreme PeVatron Sources (PEPS) experiment, are considering water-Cherenkov detectors as a base design. A key factor in improving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Pierre Billoir , Benjamin Flaggs , Ioana C. Mariş , Andrea Parenti

Currently the detection of Very High Energy gamma-rays for astrophysics rely on the measurement of the Extensive Air Showers (EAS) either using Cherenkov detectors or EAS arrays with larger field of views but also larger energy thresholds.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 P. Assis , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Blanco , R. Conceição , B. D'Ettoree Piazzoli , A. de Angelis , M. Doro , P. Fonte , L. Lopes , G. Matthiae , M. Pimenta , R. Shellard , B. Tomé

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

We investigate possible sky survey modes with the Middle Sized Telescopes (MST, aimed at covering the energy range from $\sim$100 GeV to 10 TeV) subsystem of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We use the standard CTA tools, CORSIKA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 M. Szanecki , D. Sobczyńska , A. Niedźwiecki , J. Sitarek , W. Bednarek

In Monte-Carlo simulations of gamma-ray or cosmic-ray detector arrays on the ground (here mainly arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes), the atmosphere enters in several ways: in the development of the particle showers, in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 Konrad Bernlöhr

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a second-generation continuously operated, wide field-of-view, TeV gamma-ray observatory. The HAWC observatory and its analysis techniques build on experience of the Milagro experiment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Álvarez , J. D. Álvarez , M. Araya , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. P. Arunbabu , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , R. Babu , A. S. Barber , A. Becerril , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , O. Blanco , J. Braun , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , J. I. Cabrera Martínez , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , O. Chaparro-Amaro , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , E. de la Fuente , C. de León , T. De Young , R. Díaz Hernández , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , M. Durocher , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engel , C. Espinoza , K. L. Fan , K. Fang , U. B. Fick , H. Fleischhack , J. L. Flores , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , G. García-Torales , F. Garfias , G. Giacinti , H. Goksu , M. M. González , A. González-Muñoz , J. A. Goodman , J. P. Harding , E. Hernández , S. Hernández , J. Hinton , B. Hona , D. Huang , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , C. M. Hui , T. B. Humensky , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Imran , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , D. Kieda , G. J. Kunde , A. Lara , R. Lauer , W. H. Lee , D. Lennarz , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , K. Malone , V. Marandon , A. Marinelli , O. Martínez , I. Martínez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , T. Montaruli , J. A. Morales-Soto , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , T. Oceguera-Becerra , L. Olivera-Nieto , N. Omodei , A. Peisker , Y. Pérez Araujo , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , E. Ponce , J. Pretz , C. D. Rho , D. Rosa-González , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , D. Salazar-Gallegos , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , J. Serna-Franco , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , Y. Son , K. Sparks Woodle , R. W. Springer , I. Taboada , A. Tepe , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , R. Torres-Escobedo , R. Turner , F. Ureña-Mena , T. N. Ukwatta , E. Varela , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Villaseñor , X. Wang , I. J. Watson , F. Werner , S. Westerhoff , E. Willox , I. Wisher , J. Wood , G. B. Yodh , D. Zaborov , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou

A new Air Shower Observatory has been constructed in Buenos Aires during 1999, and commissioned and set in operation in 2000. The observatory consists of an array of four water \v{C}erenkov detectors, enclosing a geometrical area of $\sim$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bauleo , C. Bonifazi , A. Filevich , A. Reguera

In this document we consider the problem of finding the optimal layout for the array of water Cherenkov detectors proposed by the SWGO collaboration to study very-high-energy gamma rays in the southern hemisphere. We develop a continuous…

Gamma ray source detection above 30TeV is an encouraging approach for finding galactic cosmic ray origins. All sky survey for gamma ray sources using wide field of view detector is essential for population accumulation for various types of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Zhen Cao

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility for ground-based very high energy gamma ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an open observatory. With two sites, in the northern and southern hemispheres,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Werner Hofmann , Roberta Zanin

The first phase of the Alborz Observatory Array (Alborz-I) consists of 20 plastic scintillation detectors each one with surface area of 0.25 $m^{2}$ spread over an area of 40$\times$40 $m^{2}$ realized to the study of Extensive Air Showers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Soheila Abdollahi , Mahmud Bahmanabadi , Yousef Pezeshkian , Saba Mortazavi Moghaddam

Recently, ground-based very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy achieved a remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. Construction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-30 A. Konopelko , J. P. Finley , G. Urbanski

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a large field of view, continuously operated, TeV gamma-ray experiment under construction at 4,100 m a.s.l. in Mexico. The HAWC observatory will have an order of magnitude better…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Miguel Mostafa

The Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) is a hybrid, Air Fluorescence Detector (FD) / Scintillator Array, designed to study cosmic ray initiated showers at energies above $\sim3\times10^{16}$ eV. Located in the western Utah desert,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-02 Tareq Abu-Zayyad , Telescope-Array Collaboration

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

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of 300 water Cherenkov detectors and has been fully operational since March 2015 in central Mexico. It detects cosmic- and gamma-ray showers in the TeV energy range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Vikas Joshi , Armelle Jardin-Blicq

We present the LAGOVirtual Project: an ongoing project to develop platform to collaborate in the Large Aperture GRB Observatory (LAGO). This continental-wide observatory is devised to detect high energy (around 100 GeV) component of Gamma…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-12-15 R. Camacho , R. Chacon , G. Diaz , C. Guada , V. Hamar , H. Hoeger , A. Melfo , L. A. Nunez , Y. Perez , C. Quintero , M. Rosales , R. Torrens , the LAGO Collaboration

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a TeV gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector currently under construction at an altitude of 4100 m close to volcano Sierra Negra in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The HAWC observatory is an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Antonio Marinelli , Kathryne Sparks , Ruben Alfaro , María Magdalena González , Barbara Patricelli , Nissim Fraija

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) is a large field of view (~2 sr) continuously operating experiment sensitive to very-high energy (VHE) gamma rays (~0.3-100 TeV). These characteristics make it well suited for observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Israel Martinez-Castellanos