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The CTA is the next generation of ground based very high energy gamma ray Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Since observations with this technique are affected by atmospheric conditions, an accurate knowledge of the atmospheric…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

Machine learning, through the use of convolutional and recurrent neural networks is a promising avenue for the improvement of background rejection performance in imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. However, it is of paramount…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-11 R. D. Parsons , A. M. W. Mitchell , S. Ohm

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are set to transform our understanding of the universe over the next decade. These two observatories have multiple areas of complementarity in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 J. Biteau , J. Hamo , A. Mikhno , J. Peloton , J. -P. Lenain

In this paper we proposed a joint reconstruction of \gray events using both extensive air array (EAS) and Imaging air Cherenkov Telescope array (IACT). We considered eight Cherenkov telescopes to be built on the LHAASO (Large High Altitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Zhipeng Zhang , Ruizhi Yang , Shoushan Zhang , Liqiao Yin , Jiali Liu , Yudong Wang , Lingling Ma , Zhen Cao

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

Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and perhaps a unique probe for new physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are already giving results in the physics of acceleration of cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michele Doro

Many models of dark matter (DM) are now widely considered and probed intensively with accelerators, underground detectors, and astrophysical experiments. Among the various approaches, high-energy astrophysical observations are extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Nagisa Hiroshima

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next generation ground based observatory for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and hopefully a unique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 Ciro Bigongiari

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

This paper is concerned with the performance optimisation of an stereoscopic array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) as a function of their positioning on the ground. In this first work we are concerned primarily with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-30 Bruno Fontes Souto , Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have resulted in a breakthrough in very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astrophysics. While early IACT installations faced the problem of detecting any sources at all, current instruments are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Konrad Bernlohr

The Cosmic Multiperspective Event Tracker (CoMET) R&D project aims to optimize the techniques for the detection of soft-spectrum sources through very-high-energy gamma-ray observations using particle detectors (called ALTO detectors), and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Tomas Bylund , Gašper Kukec Mezek , Mohanraj Senniappan , Yvonne Becherini , Michael Punch , Satyendra Thoudam , Jean-Pierre Ernenwein

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

Upcoming surveys are predicted to discover galaxy-scale strong lenses on the order of $10^5$, making deep learning methods necessary in lensing data analysis. Currently, there is insufficient real lensing data to train deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Paxson Swierc , Megan Zhao , Aleksandra Ćiprijanović , Brian Nord

Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an upcoming instrument that will start a new generation of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. CTA is expected not only to provide an unprecedented sensitivity in the tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Michał Szanecki

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
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