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For reliable event reconstruction of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), calibration of the optical throughput efficiency is required. Within current facilities, this is achieved through the use of ring shaped images generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 A. M. W. Mitchell , R. D. Parsons , W. Hofmann , K. Bernloehr

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

Based on the Monte Carlo simulations we have studied the performance of the HEGRA system of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) in its present configuration of 4 IACTs as well as in its future final configuration of 5 IACTs. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Konopelko , M. Hemberger , F. Aharonian

Stereoscopic arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes allow to reconstruct gamma-ray-induced showers in 3 dimensions, which offers several advantages: direct access to the shower parameters in space and straightforward…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-08 M. Naumann-Godó , M. Lemoine-Goumard , B. Degrange

Extensive air showers created by high-energy particles interacting with the Earth atmosphere can be detected using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). The IACT images can be analyzed to distinguish between the events caused by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Stanislav Polyakov , Andrey Demichev , Alexander Kryukov , Evgeny Postnikov

A detailed numerical procedure has been developed to simulate the mechanical configurations and optical properties of Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope systems. To test these procedures a few existing ACT arrays are simulated. First…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-16 Srikanta Sinha

High-energy particles hitting the upper atmosphere of the Earth produce extensive air showers that can be detected from the ground level using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The images recorded by Cherenkov telescopes can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Stanislav Polyakov , Alexander Kryukov , Andrey Demichev , Julia Dubenskaya , Elizaveta Gres , Anna Vlaskina

The HEGRA system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detects Cherenkov light produced by air showers. The concept of stereoscopic observation with the five HEGRA telescopes allows the reconstruction of various shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Doering , K. Bernloehr , G. Hermann , W. Hofmann , H. Lampeitl

It is generally assumed that fluorescence radiation does not play a significant role in the performance of Cherenkov telescopes. However, this assumption is required to be verified using detailed Monte Carlo simulations. In order to do…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-01 Daniel Morcuende , José Luis Contreras , Jaime Rosado , Lab Saha , Vitor de Souza

The pointing system of the prototype of the Large Size Telescope (LST-1) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory, should ensure mapping of the gamma-ray image of a point-like source in the Cherenkov camera to the sky coordinates with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-06 Darko Zarić , Stefan Cikota , Armand Fiasson , Nikola Godinović , Koji Noda , Robert Wagner , Martin Will , Quentin Piel

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

Over the last decade, the Imaging Air Cerenkov technique has proven itself to be an extremely powerful means to study very energetic gamma-radiation from a number of astrophysical sources in a regime which is not practically accessible to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 I. de la Calle Perez , S. D. Biller

The integration of fine-scale multispectral imagery with deep learning models has revolutionized land use and land cover (LULC) classification. However, the atmospheric effects present in Top-of-Atmosphere sensor measured Digital Number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Soham Mukherjee , Yash Dixit , Naman Srivastava , Joel D Joy , Rohan Olikara , Koesha Sinha , Swarup E , Rakshit Ramesh

The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are allowing the sky to be probed with greater sensitivity than ever before in the energy range around and above 100 GeV. To minimise the systematic errors on derived fluxes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sam Nolan , Gerd Puehlhofer , Cameron Rulten

The monitoring of the atmosphere is very relevant for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Adverse weather conditions (strong wind, high humidity, etc.) may damage the telescopes and must therefore be monitored continuously to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 M. Gaug , O. Blanch , D. Dorner , M. Doro , Ll. Font , C. Fruck , M. Garczarczyk , D. Garrido , D. Hrupec , J. Hose , A. López-Oramas , G. Maneva , M. Martinez , R. Mirzoyan , P. Temnikov , R. Zanin

Atmospheric monitoring is an integral part of the design of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), as atmospheric conditions affect the observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) in multiple ways. The variable optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Jan Ebr , Tomasz Bulik , Lluis Font , Markus Gaug , Petr Janecek , Jakub Jurysek , Dusan Mandat , Stanislav Stefanik , Laura Valore , George Vasileiadis

This work summarizes the results presented at 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune India. Generally the aim of this work is to obtain the lateral distribution of the atmospheric Cherenkov light in extensive air showers produced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Mishev , Strashimir Mavrodiev , Jordan Stamenov

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

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 density profiles as well as several light absorption and scattering processes depend on geographic position and are generally time-variable. Their impact on the atmospheric Cherenkov technique in general (imaging or non-imaging)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Konrad Bernloehr