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Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) are essential to ground-based observations of gamma rays in the GeV to TeV regime. One particular challenge of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is an effective rejection of the hadronic background.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Jonas Glombitza , Vikas Joshi , Benedetta Bruno , Stefan Funk

Ground based gamma-ray observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) play a significant role in the discovery of very high energy (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters. The analysis of IACT data demands a highly efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Idan Shilon , Manuel Kraus , Matthias Büchele , Kathrin Egberts , Tobias Fischer , Tim Lukas Holch , Thomas Lohse , Ullrich Schwanke , Constantin Steppa , Stefan Funk

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays record images from air showers initiated by gamma rays entering the atmosphere, allowing astrophysical sources to be observed at very high energies. To maximize IACT sensitivity,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-13 Aryeh Brill , Qi Feng , T. Brian Humensky , Bryan Kim , Daniel Nieto , Tjark Miener

When very-high-energy gamma rays interact high in the Earth's atmosphere, they produce cascades of particles that induce flashes of Cherenkov light. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect these flashes and convert them into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Pietro Grespan , Mikael Jacquemont , Rubèn López-Coto , Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto-Castaño , Thomas Vuillaume

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…

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNs) are a promising machine learning technique to reconstruct events recorded by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), but require optimization to reach full performance. One of the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 D. Nieto , A. Brill , Q. Feng , M. Jacquemont , B. Kim , T. Miener , T. Vuillaume

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

In this paper we have introduced a novel method for gamma hadron separation in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) using Quantum Machine Learning. IACTs captures images of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced from very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Jashwanth S , Sudeep Ghosh , Neha Shah , Kavitha Yogaraj , Ankhi Roy

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

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

New deep learning techniques present promising new analysis methods for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) such as the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In particular, the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Samuel Spencer , Thomas Armstrong , Jason Watson , Salvatore Mangano , Yves Renier , Garret Cotter

With their wide field of view and high duty cycle, water-Cherenkov-based observatories are integral to studying the very high-energy gamma-ray sky. For gamma-ray observations, precise event reconstruction and highly effective background…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jonas Glombitza , Martin Schneider , Franziska Leitl , Stefan Funk , Christopher van Eldik

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory and will be the major global instrument for very-high-energy astronomy over the next decade, offering 5 - 10 x better flux sensitivity than current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 J. Aschersleben , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very-high-energy gamma rays from ground level by capturing the Cherenkov light of the induced particle showers. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained on IACT camera…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 J. Aschersleben , T. T. H. Arnesen , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , C. Vlasakidis , M. H. F. Wilkinson

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

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

Graph-based neural network models are gaining traction in the field of representation learning due to their ability to uncover latent topological relationships between entities that are otherwise challenging to identify. These models have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Aryan Singh , Pepijn Van de Ven , Ciarán Eising , Patrick Denny

The rapid progress in image classification has been largely driven by the adoption of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), which offer a robust framework for handling complex data structures. This study introduces a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Mustafa Mohammadi Gharasuie , Luis Rueda

KM3NeT, a neutrino telescope currently under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, consists of a network of large-volume Cherenkov detectors. Its two different sites, ORCA and ARCA, are optimised for few GeV and TeV-PeV neutrino energies,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 S. Reck , D. Guderian , G. Vermariën , A. Domi

The majority of model-based learned image reconstruction methods in medical imaging have been limited to uniform domains, such as pixelated images. If the underlying model is solved on nonuniform meshes, arising from a finite element method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 William Herzberg , Daniel B. Rowe , Andreas Hauptmann , Sarah J. Hamilton
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