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The details of Cerenkov light produced by a gamma ray or a cosmic ray incident at the top of the atmosphere is best studied through systematic simulations of the extensive air showers. Recently such studies have become all the more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. R. Chitnis , P. N. Bhat

The sensitivity of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatories depends critically on the primary particle identification methods which are used to retain photon-initiated events and suppress the spurious background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. V. Bugaev , A. V. Plyasheshnikov , V. V. Vassiliev , T. C. Weekes

Future experiments based on the observation of Earth's atmosphere from sub-orbital and orbital altitudes plan to include optical Cherenkov cameras to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy cosmic radiation via its interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Johannes Eser , John Krizmanic

We present new methods for lensing reconstruction from CMB temperature fluctuations which have smaller mean-field and reconstruction noise bias corrections than current lensing estimators, with minimal loss of signal-to-noise. These biases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 Toshiya Namikawa , Duncan Hanson , Ryuichi Takahashi

A common way to simulate the transport and spread of pollutants in the atmosphere is via stochastic Lagrangian dispersion models. Mathematically, these models describe turbulent transport processes with stochastic differential equations…

One of the scientific goals of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the evolution of dark energy by measuring subtle distortions of galaxy shapes due to weak gravitational lensing caused by the evolving dark matter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-27 Claire-Alice Hébert , Bruce Macintosh , Patricia R. Burchat

Arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) are superb instruments to probe the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. This type of telescope focuses the Cherenkov light emitted from air showers, initiated by very-high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 D. Nieto , T. Miener , A. Brill , J. L. Contreras , T. B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

The analysis of ring images produced by muons in an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) provides a powerful and precise method to calibrate the IACT optical throughput and monitor its optical point-spread function (PSF). First…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Markus Gaug , Steven Fegan , Alison Mitchell , Maria-Concetta Maccarone , Teresa Mineo , Akira Okumura

Simulating and analysing detailed observations of astrophysical sources for very high energy (VHE) experiments, like the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), can be a demanding task especially in terms of CPU consumption and required storage.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 M. Landoni , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , J. Knodlseder , A. Bianco , F. Tavecchio , A. Corina

We describe a dedicated cosmic-ray telescope that explores a new method for detecting Cerenkov radiation from high-energy primary cosmic rays and the large particle air shower they induce upon entering the atmosphere. Using a camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 S. A. Wissel , K. Byrum , J. D. Cunningham , G. Drake , E. Hays , D. Horan , D. Kieda , E. Kovacs , S. Magill , L. Nodulman , S. P. Swordy , R. Wagner , S. P. Wakely

Optical stellar intensity interferometry with air Cherenkov telescope arrays, composed of nearly 100 telescopes, will provide means to measure fundamental stellar parameters and also open the possibility of model-independent imaging. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

We present computing results of the Cherenkov light propagation in air and water from extensive air showers developing over the ocean. Limits on zenith angles of the showers, at which the registration of flashes of reflected Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 O. P. Shustova , N. N. Kalmykov , B. A. Khrenov

We present an analysis technique that uses the timing information of Cherenkov images from extensive air showers (EAS). Our emphasis is on distant, or large core distance gamma-ray induced showers at multi-TeV energies. Specifically,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 V. Stamatescu , G. P. Rowell , J. Denman , R. W. Clay , B. R. Dawson , A. G. K. Smith , T. Sudholz , G. J. Thornton , N. Wild

A wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope has been working in the surroundings of the Yakutsk array experiment since 2012. Its main function is to measure the waveform of the Cherenkov radiation signal induced by extensive air showers of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory project is proposed to study high energy gamma ray astronomy ( 40 GeV-1 PeV ) and cosmic ray physics ( 20 TeV-1 EeV ). The wide field of view Cherenkov telescope array, as a component of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 L. L. Ma , Y. X. Bai , Z. Cao , M. J. Chen , L. H. Chen , S. Z. Chen , Y. Chen , K. Q. Ding , H. H. He , J. Liu , J. L. Liu , X. X. Li , X. H. Ma , X. D. Sheng , G. Xiao , M. Zha , S. S. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zhao , B. Zhou

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

Spatial distributions of energy deposited by an extensive air shower in the atmosphere through ionization, as obtained from the CORSIKA simulation program, are used to find the fluorescence light distribution in the optical image of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Gora , D. Heck , P. Homola , H. Klages , J. Pekala , M. Risse , B. Wilczynska , H. Wilczynski

Muons produced in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) generate ring-like images in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes when travelling near parallel to the optical axis. From geometrical parameters of these images, the absolute amount of light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. M. W. Mitchell , V. Marandon , R. D. Parsons

Improving the coincidence time resolution (CTR) of time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) systems to achieve a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain or even direct positron emission imaging (dPEI) is of paramount importance…