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Signal quality assessment (SQA) is required for monitoring the reliability of data acquisition systems, especially in AI-driven Predictive Maintenance (PMx) application contexts. SQA is vital for addressing "silent failures" of data…

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Modern large-scale astroparticle setups measure high-energy particles, gamma rays, neutrinos, radio waves, and the recently discovered gravitational waves. Ongoing and future experiments are located worldwide. The data acquired have…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a project that aims to exploring the highest energy region of electromagnetic spectrum. Two arrays, one for each hemisphere, will cover the full sky in a range from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV…

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Fine-grained air quality (AQ) mapping is made possible by the proliferation of cheap AQ micro-stations (MSs). However, their measurements are often inaccurate and sensitive to local disturbances, in contrast to standardized stations (SSs)…

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The SST-1M is a 4-m Davies--Cotton atmospheric Cherenkov telescope optimized to provide gamma-ray sensitivity above a few TeV. The SST-1M is proposed as part of the Small-Size Telescope array for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the…

There are many ways to solve the challenging problem of making a high performance robotic observatory from scratch. The Observatorio Astrof\'isico de Javalambre (OAJ) is a new astronomical facility located at the Sierra de Javalambre…

Cherenkov telescope experiments, such as H.E.S.S., have been very successful in astronomical observations in the very-high-energy (VHE; E $>$ 100 GeV) regime. As an integral part of the detector, such experiments use Earth's atmosphere as a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-05 J. Hahn , R. de los Reyes , K. Bernlöhr , P. Krüger , Y. T. E. Lo , P. M. Chadwick , M. K. Daniel , C. Deil , H. Gast , K. Kosack , V. Marandon

In 2018 the Large Sized Telescope (LST-1) prototype, designed to be the lowest energy detector for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, was inaugurated at the Observatorio de Roque de Los Muchachos in La Palma, Canary Island and today…

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The construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array is expected to start soon. We will present the baseline methods and their extensions currently foreseen to calibrate the observatory. These are bound to achieve the strong requirements on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug , Michael Daniel , David Berge , Raquel de los Reyes , Michele Doro , Andreas Foerster , Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Christopher van Eldik

The Pierre Auger Observatory is designed to study cosmic rays of the highest energies ($>10^{19}$ eV). The ground array of the Observatory will consist of 1600 water Cherenkov detectors deployed over 3000 km^2. The remoteness and large…

Ground-based atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are proven to be effective instruments for observations of very high energy (VHE) gamma-radiation from celestial objects. For effective use of such technique one needs detailed Monte Carlo…

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A long-held astronomical vision is to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, show their evolution over time, and reveal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution for the detection of gamma rays with energies above a few tens of GeV. In comparison to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk , Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

With its unprecedented light-collecting area for night-sky observations, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) holds great potential for also optical stellar astronomy, in particular as a multi-element intensity interferometer for realizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation gamma-ray observatory. CTA will incorporate about 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) at a southern site, and about 20 in the north. Previous IACT experiments have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga , Dejan Dezman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy that is expected to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over existing instruments. In order to meet the physics…

The online Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) plays an important role in the data taking process of HEP experiments. BESIII DQM samples data from online data flow, reconstructs them with offline reconstruction software, and automatically…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiao-Dong Sun , Ji-Feng Hu , Hai-Sheng Zhao , Xiao-Bin Ji , Yi-Fang Wang , Yang-Heng Zheng , Bei-Jiang Liu

Modern telescope facilities generate data from various sources, including sensors, weather stations, LiDARs, and FRAMs. Sophisticated software architectures using the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data technologies are required to manage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Federico Incardona , Alessandro Costa , Giuseppe Leto , Kevin Munari , Giovanni Pareschi , Salvatore Scuderi , Gino Tosti

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…

We developed a system to run quick analyses of Cherenkov data in compliance with the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management (FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), through the use of interoperability…

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