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We present the results of a preliminary study of a correction method applied to the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope images affected by clouds. The studied data are Monte Carlo simulations made with CORSIKA, imitating the very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Natalia Żywucka , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Mario Pecimotika , Dario Hrupec , Dijana Dominis Prester , Lovro Pavletić , Saša Mićanović

Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very high energetic (VHE) gamma rays. They observe the Cherenkov light emitted in electromagnetic shower cascades that gamma rays induce in the atmosphere. A precise reconstruction of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Fabian Leuschner , Johannes Schäfer , Simon Steinmassl , Tim Lukas Holch , Konrad Bernlöhr , Stefan Funk , Jim Hinton , Stefan Ohm , Gerd Pühlhofer

Improving gamma-hadron separation is one of the most effective ways to enhance the performance of ground-based gamma-ray observatories. With over a decade of continuous operation, the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory has…

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

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) detect extended air showers (EASs) generated when very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays or cosmic rays interact with the Earth's atmosphere. Cherenkov photons produced during an EAS are captured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 T. Miener , L. Burmistrov , B. Lacave , A. Cerviño

The Cherenkov light produced in air showers largely contributes to the signal observed in ground-based gamma-ray and cosmic-ray observatories. Yet, no description of this phenomenon is available covering both regions of small and large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Luan Arbeletche , Vitor de Souza

Atmospheric \v{C}erenkov Technique is an established methodology to study $TeV$ energy gamma rays. However the challenging problem has always been the poor signal to noise ratio due to the presence of abundant cosmic rays. Several ingenious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

Cherenkov images of air showers can also be classified using multifractal and wavelet parameters, as compared to the conventional Hillas image parameters. This technique was applied to the images recorded by the cameras of the stereoscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. M. Schaefer , W. Hofmann , H. Lampeitl , M. Hemberger

The fields of cosmic ray astrophysics, gamma-ray astrophysics, and neutrino astrophysics have diverged somewhat. But for the air showers in the GeV and TeV energy ranges, the ground-based detector techniques have considerable overlaps. VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Michael A. DuVernois , Giuseppe Di Sciascio

We introduce a new Monte Carlo template-based reconstruction method for air shower arrays, with a focus on shower core and energy reconstruction of $\gamma$-ray induced air showers. The algorithm fits an observed lateral amplitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Vikas Joshi , Jim Hinton , Harm Schoorlemmer , Rubén López-Coto , Robert Parsons

COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a program for detailed simulation of extensive air showers initiated by high energy cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere, and is used today by almost all the major instruments that aim at measuring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Luisa Arrabito , Konrad Bernlöhr , Johan Bregeon , Matthieu Carrère , Adnane Khattabi , Philippe Langlois , David Parello , Guillaume Revy

For air showers observed simultaneously by more than two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, the shower geometry is overconstrained by the images and image information should be combined taking into account the quality of the images.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 W. Hofmann , I. Jung , A. Konopelko , H. Krawczynski , H. Lampeitl , G. Puehlhofer

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…

In gamma-ray astronomy through Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT), the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter. Incident gamma-rays in the GeV-TeV energy range are observed through the electromagnetic showers they produce in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-02 S. Sajjad , A. Falvard

We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 M. Wood , T. Jogler , J. Dumm , S. Funk

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT…

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

We present a high-performance event reconstruction algorithm: an Image Pixel-wise fit for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ImPACT). The reconstruction algorithm is based around the likelihood fitting of camera pixel amplitudes to an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-20 R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton

The stereoscopic imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique, developed in the 1980s and 1990s, is now used by a number of existing and planned gamma-ray observatories around the world. It provides the most sensitive view of the very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jamie Holder

A method for correcting smearing effects using machine learning technique is presented. Compared to the standard deconvolution approaches in high energy particle physics, the method can use more than one reconstructed variable to predict…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-01-30 Bora Işıldak , Alper Hayreter , Aidan R. Wiederhold