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We present a sophisticated gamma-ray likelihood reconstruction technique for Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes. The technique is based on the comparison of the raw Cherenkov camera pixel images of a photon induced atmospheric particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mathieu de Naurois , Loic Rolland

This research note concerns the application of deep-learning-based multi-view-imaging techniques to data from the H.E.S.S. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope array. We find that the earlier the fusion of layer information from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Hannes Warnhofer , Samuel T. Spencer , Alison M. W. Mitchell

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very-high-energy gamma rays from ground level by capturing the Cherenkov light of the induced particle showers. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained on IACT camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 J. Aschersleben , T. T. H. Arnesen , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , C. Vlasakidis , M. H. F. Wilkinson

A new background rejection strategy for gamma-ray astrophysics with stereoscopic Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and real background data from the H.E.S.S. [High Energy Stereoscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-29 Yvonne Becherini , Arache Djannati-Ataï , Vincent Marandon , Michael Punch , Santiago Pita

Context. The presence of clouds during observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes can strongly affect the performance of the instrument due to additional absorption of light and scattering of light beyond the field of view…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Natalia Żywucka , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Mario Pecimotika , Dario Hrupec , Dijana Dominis Prester , Lovro Pavletić , Saša Mićanović

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are sensitive to rare gamma-ray photons, buried in the background of charged cosmic-ray (CR) particles, the flux of which is several orders of magnitude greater. The ability to separate gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Qi Feng , Tony T. Y. Lin

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the next generation of observatory using imaging air Cherenkov technique for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope is operational on-site at La Palma and its data acquisitions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Michaël Dell'aiera , Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit

Accurate and fast extraction of foreground object is a key prerequisite for a wide range of computer vision applications such as object tracking and recognition. Thus, enormous background subtraction methods for foreground object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Dongdong Zeng , Ming Zhu , Arjan Kuijper

Classical convolutional neural networks (cCNNs) are very good at categorizing objects in images. But, unlike human vision which is relatively robust to noise in images, the performance of cCNNs declines quickly as image quality worsens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Till S. Hartmann

A new SPHERE-3 telescope is being developed for cosmic rays spectrum and mass composition studies in the 5--1000 PeV energy range. Registration of extensive air showers using reflected Cherenkov light method applied in the SPHERE detector…

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNs) are a promising machine learning technique to reconstruct events recorded by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), but require optimization to reach full performance. One of the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 D. Nieto , A. Brill , Q. Feng , M. Jacquemont , B. Kim , T. Miener , T. Vuillaume

Gamma ray astronomy is now at the leading edge for studies related both to fundamental physics and astrophysics. The sensitivity of gamma detectors is limited by the huge amount of background, constituted by hadronic cosmic rays (typically…

The next generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes will be composed of hundreds of telescopes working together to attempt to unveil some fundamental physics of the high-energy Universe. Along with the scientific data, a large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-26 Federico Incardona , Alessandro Costa , Kevin Munari

Bringing artificial intelligence (AI) alongside next-generation X-ray imaging detectors, including CCDs and DEPFET sensors, enhances their sensitivity to achieve many of the flagship science cases targeted by future X-ray observatories,…

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

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 photo-sensor cameras of Cherenkov telescopes the light images from particle showers always contain the background noise induced by photons of the night sky. An image cleaning procedure is needed to reduce the contribution of those noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maxim Shayduk

This work presents a novel approach to water Cherenkov neutrino detector event reconstruction and classification. Three forms of a Convolutional Neural Network have been trained to reject cosmic muon events, classify beam events, and…

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