English
Related papers

Related papers: Background Rejection in Atmospheric Cherenkov Tele…

200 papers

Cherenkov detectors have been used in space missions for many decades, and for a variety of purposes, including for example, for Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) and Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) measurements. Cherenkov detectors are sensitive to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-20 Christopher S. W. Davis , Fan Lei , Keith Ryden , Clive Dyer , Giovanni Santin , Piers Jiggens , Melanie Heil

Observations from ground based telescopes are affected by the presence of the Earth atmosphere, which severely perturbs them. The use of adaptive optics techniques has allowed us to partly beat this limitation. However, image selection or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Asensio Ramos , N. Olspert

During the last decade ground-based very high-energy 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. It is widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , A. Chilingarian , A. Reimers

We investigate neural network image reconstruction for magnetic particle imaging. The network performance depends strongly on the convolution effects of the spectrum input data. The larger convolution effect appearing at a relatively…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Byung Gyu Chae

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO). This has allowed the rapid development of new procedures to solve problems affecting these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

Water-(Ice-) Cherenkov neutrino telescopes have played a pivotal role in the search and discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. Experimental collaborations are developing and constructing next-generation neutrino telescopes with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-05 Tong Zhu , Miaochen Jin , Carlos A. Argüelles

Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes rely on the Earth's atmosphere as part of the detector. The presence of clouds affects observations and can introduce biases if not corrected for. Correction methods typically require an atmospheric profile,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Julian Sitarek , Mario Pecimotika , Natalia Żywucka , Dorota Sobczyńska , Abelardo Moralejo , Dario Hrupec

State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rémi Flamary

We present a new method of image cleaning for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The method is based on the utilization of wavelets to identify noise pixels in images of gamma-ray and hadronic induced air showers. This method selects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. W. Lessard , L. Cayón , G. H. Sembroski , J. A. Gaidos

Atmospheric air Cherenkov telescopes are successfully used for ground-based, very high-energy (VHE) gamma ray astronomy. Triggers from the so-called single muon and other long-flying relativistic charged particle events are an unwanted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Mirzoyan , D. Sobczynska , E. Lorenz , M. Teshima

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is currently under construction at two locations in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ORCA water-Cherenkov neutrino detector off the French coast will instrument several megatons of seawater with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastiano Aiello , Arnauld Albert , Sergio Alves Garre , Zineb Aly , Fabrizio Ameli , Michel Andre , Giorgos Androulakis , Marco Anghinolfi , Mancia Anguita , Gisela Anton , Miquel Ardid , Julien Aublin , Christos Bagatelas , Giancarlo Barbarino , Bruny Baret , Suzan Basegmez du Pree , Meriem Bendahman , Edward Berbee , Vincent Bertin , Simone Biagi , Andrea Biagioni , Matthias Bissinger , Markus Boettcher , Jihad Boumaaza , Mohammed Bouta , Mieke Bouwhuis , Cristiano Bozza , Horea Branzas , Ronald Bruijn , Jürgen Brunner , Ernst-Jan Buis , Raffaele Buompane , Jose Busto , Barbara Caiffi , David Calvo , Antonio Capone , Víctor Carretero , Paolo Castaldi , Silvia Celli , Mohamed Chabab , Nhan Chau , Andrew Chen , Silvio Cherubini , Vitaliano Chiarella , Tommaso Chiarusi , Marco Circella , Rosanna Cocimano , Joao Coelho , Alexis Coleiro , Marta Colomer Molla , Rosa Coniglione , Paschal Coyle , Alexandre Creusot , Giacomo Cuttone , Antonio D'Onofrio , Richard Dallier , Maarten de Jong , Paul de Jong , Mauro De Palma , Gwenhaël de Wasseige , Els de Wolf , Irene Di Palma , Antonio Diaz , Dídac Diego-Tortosa , Carla Distefano , Alba Domi , Roberto Donà , Corinne Donzaud , Damien Dornic , Manuel Dörr , Doriane Drouhin , Thomas Eberl , Imad El Bojaddaini , Dominik Elsaesser , Alexander Enzenhöfer , Paolo Fermani , Giovanna Ferrara , Miroslav Filipovic , Francesco Filippini , Luigi Antonio Fusco , Omar Gabella , Tamas Gal , Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto , Fabio Garufi , Yoann Gatelet , Nicole Geißelbrecht , Lucio Gialanella , Emidio Giorgio , Sara Rebecca Gozzini , Rodrigo Gracia , Kay Graf , Dario Grasso , Giuseppe Grella , Carlo Guidi , Steffen Hallmann , Hassane Hamdaoui , Aart Heijboer , Amar Hekalo , Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey , Jannik Hofestädt , Feifei Huang , Walid Idrissi Ibnsalih , Giulia Illuminati , Clancy James , Bouke Jisse Jung , Matthias Kadler , Piotr Kalaczyński , Oleg Kalekin , Uli Katz , Nafis Rezwan Khan Chowdhury , Giorgi Kistauri , Els Koffeman , Paul Kooijman , Antoine Kouchner , Michael Kreter , Vladimir Kulikovskiy , Robert Lahmann , Giuseppina Larosa , Remy Le Breton , Ornella Leonardi , Francesco Leone , Emanuele Leonora , Giuseppe Levi , Massimiliano Lincetto , Miles Lindsey Clark , Thomas Lipreau , Alessandro Lonardo , Fabio Longhitano , Daniel Lopez Coto , Lukas Maderer , Jerzy Mańczak , Karl Mannheim , Annarita Margiotta , Antonio Marinelli , Christos Markou , Lilian Martin , Juan Antonio Martínez-Mora , Agnese Martini , Fabio Marzaioli , Stefano Mastroianni , Safaa Mazzou , Karel Melis , Gennaro Miele , Pasquale Migliozzi , Emilio Migneco , Piotr Mijakowski , Luis Salvador Miranda Palacios , Carlos Maximiliano Mollo , Mauro Morganti , Michael Moser , Abdelilah Moussa , Rasa Muller , Mario Musumeci , Lodewijk Nauta , Sergio Navas , Carlo Alessandro Nicolau , Brían Ó Fearraigh , Mukharbek Organokov , Angelo Orlando , Gogita Papalashvili , Riccardo Papaleo , Cosimo Pastore , Alice Paun , Gabriela Emilia Pavalas , Carmelo Pellegrino , Mathieu Perrin-Terrin , Paolo Piattelli , Camiel Pieterse , Konstantinos Pikounis , Ofelia Pisanti , Chiara Poirè , Vlad Popa , Maarten Post , Thierry Pradier , Gerd Pühlhofer , Sara Pulvirenti , Omphile Rabyang , Fabrizio Raffaelli , Nunzio Randazzo , Antonio Rapicavoli , Soebur Razzaque , Diego Real , Stefan Reck , Giorgio Riccobene , Marc Richer , Stephane Rivoire , Alberto Rovelli , Francisco Salesa Greus , Dorothea Franziska Elisabeth Samtleben , Agustín Sánchez Losa , Matteo Sanguineti , Andrea Santangelo , Domenico Santonocito , Piera Sapienza , Jutta Schnabel , Jordan Seneca , Irene Sgura , Rezo Shanidze , Ankur Sharma , Francesco Simeone , Anna Sinopoulou , Bernardino Spisso , Maurizio Spurio , Dimitris Stavropoulos , Jos Steijger , Simona Maria Stellacci , Mauro Taiuti , Yahya Tayalati , Enrique Tenllado , Tarak Thakore , Steven Tingay , Ekaterini Tzamariudaki , Dimitrios Tzanetatos , Ad van den Berg , Frits van der Knaap , Daan van Eijk , Véronique Van Elewyck , Hans van Haren , Godefroy Vannoye , George Vasileiadis , Federico Versari , Salvatore Viola , Daniele Vivolo , Joern Wilms , Rafał Wojaczyński , Dmitry Zaborov , Sandra Zavatarelli , Angela Zegarelli , Daniele Zito , Juan-de-Dios Zornoza , Juan Zúñiga , Natalia Zywucka

When very-high-energy gamma rays interact high in the Earth's atmosphere, they produce cascades of particles that induce flashes of Cherenkov light. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect these flashes and convert them into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Pietro Grespan , Mikael Jacquemont , Rubèn López-Coto , Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto-Castaño , Thomas Vuillaume

This paper presents a systematic literature review focusing on the application of machine learning techniques for deriving observational constraints in cosmology. The goal is to evaluate and synthesize existing research to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Luis Rojas , Sebastián Espinoza , Esteban González , Carlos Maldonado , Fei Luo

Ground-level particle detection is now a well-established approach to TeV gamma-ray astronomy. Detection of Cherenkov light produced in water-filled detection units is a proven and cost-effective method. Here we discuss the optimization of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Samridha Kunwar , Hazal Goksu , Jim Hinton , Harm Schoorlemmer , Andrew Smith , Werner Hofmann , Felix Werner

In this survey paper, we review recent uses of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to solve inverse problems in imaging. It has recently become feasible to train deep CNNs on large databases of images, and they have shown outstanding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Michael T. McCann , Kyong Hwan Jin , Michael Unser

The decoding of error syndromes of surface codes with classical algorithms may slow down quantum computation. To overcome this problem it is possible to implement decoding algorithms based on artificial neural networks. This work reports a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Bordoni , Stefano Giagu

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

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques present a promising new analysis method for high-speed imaging in astroparticle physics experiments, for example with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). In particular,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Samuel Spencer , Thomas Armstrong , Jason Watson , Garret Cotter

Radio detection of air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays is a cost-effective technique for the next generation of sparse arrays. The performance of this technique strongly depends on the environmental background, which has…

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