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Simulation of Near Horizontal Muons and Muon Bundles for the HAWC Observatory with CORSIKA

The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cerenkov) gamma ray observatory observes muons with nearly-horizontal trajectories corresponding to zenith angles greater than $80^{0}$. HAWC is located at an altitude of 4100 meters a.s.l. (70 deg. atmospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-20 Ahron S. Barber , David B. Kieda , R. Wayne Springer

Adapting Active Reflector Technology for greater sensitivity and sky-coverage in FAST-like Telescopes

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), the largest single dish radio telescope in the world, has implemented an innovative technology for its huge reflector, which changes the shape of the primary reflector from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Jian-Ling Li , Bo Peng , Cheng-Jin Jin , Hui Li , Richard G. Strom , Bin Liu , Xiao-Ming Chai , Li-Jia Liu

The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS). I. Survey overview and first data release

We give an overview of the Grism Lens Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS), a large Hubble Space Telescope program aimed at obtaining grism spectroscopy of the fields of ten massive clusters of galaxies at redshift z=0.308-0.686, including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 T. Treu , K. B. Schmidt , G. B. Brammer , B. Vulcani , X. Wang , M. Bradač , M. Dijkstra , A. Dressler , A. Fontana , R. Gavazzi , A. L. Henry , A. Hoag , K. H. Huang , T. A. Jones , P. L. Kelly , M. A. Malkan , C. Mason , L. Pentericci , B. Poggianti , M. Stiavelli , M. Trenti , A. von der Linden

Monte Carlo Study on the Large Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes for >10 GeV gamma ray astronomy

The Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), like, HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS well demonstrated their performances by showing many exciting results at very high energy gamma ray domain, mainly between 100 GeV and 10 TeV. It is important to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-26 M. Teshima , E. Carmona , P. Colin , P. Majumdar , T. Schweizer

Hubble Space Telescope hot Jupiter Transmission Spectral Survey: detection of water in HAT-P-1b from Wide Field Camera 3 near-infrared spatial scan observations

We present Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared transmission spectroscopy of the transiting hot-Jupiter HAT-P-1b. We observed one transit with Wide Field Camera 3 using the G141 low-resolution grism to cover the wavelength range 1.087-…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 H. R. Wakeford , D. K. Sing , D. Deming , N. P. Gibson , J. J. Fortney , A. S. Burrows , G. Ballester , N. Nikolov , S. Aigrain , G. Henry , H. Knutson , A. Lecavelier des Etangs , F. Pont , A. P. Showman , A. Vidal-Madjar , K. Zahnle

Studies of an air-shower imaging system for the detection of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos

We discuss the acceptance and sensitivity of a small air-shower imaging system to detect earth-skimming ultrahigh-energy tau neutrinos. The instrument we study is located on top of a mountain and has an azimuthal field of view of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Adam Nepomuk Otte

Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory

We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers with zenith angles greater than $60^\circ$ detected with the surface array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are fitted to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Aab , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , M. Ahlers , E. J. Ahn , I. Al Samarai , I. F. M. Albuquerque , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , A. Almela , J. Alvarez Castillo , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , R. Alves Batista , M. Ambrosio , A. Aminaei , L. Anchordoqui , S. Andringa , C. Aramo , F. Arqueros , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , M. Ave , M. Avenier , G. Avila , A. M. Badescu , K. B. Barber , J. Bäuml , C. Baus , J. J. Beatty , K. H. Becker , J. A. Bellido , C. Berat , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , F. Blanco , M. Blanco , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , R. Bonino , N. Borodai , J. Brack , I. Brancus , P. Brogueira , W. C. Brown , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , M. Buscemi , K. S. Caballero-Mora , B. Caccianiga , L. Caccianiga , M. Candusso , L. Caramete , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , R. Cester , A. G. Chavez , S. H. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , J. A. Chinellato , J. Chudoba , M. Cilmo , R. W. Clay , G. Cocciolo , R. Colalillo , L. Collica , M. R. Coluccia , R. Conceição , F. Contreras , M. J. Cooper , S. Coutu , C. E. Covault , A. Criss , J. Cronin , A. Curutiu , R. Dallier , B. Daniel , S. Dasso , K. Daumiller , B. R. Dawson , R. M. de Almeida , M. De Domenico , S. J. de Jong , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , I. De Mitri , J. de Oliveira , V. de Souza , L. del Peral , O. Deligny , H. Dembinski , N. Dhital , C. Di Giulio , A. Di Matteo , J. C. Diaz , M. L. Díaz Castro , P. N. Diep , F. Diogo , C. Dobrigkeit , W. Docters , J. C. D'Olivo , P. N. Dong , A. Dorofeev , Q. Dorosti Hasankiadeh , M. T. Dova , J. Ebr , R. Engel , M. Erdmann , M. Erfani , C. O. Escobar , J. Espadanal , A. Etchegoyen , P. Facal San Luis , H. Falcke , K. Fang , G. Farrar , A. C. Fauth , N. Fazzini , A. P. Ferguson , M. Fernandes , B. Fick , J. M. Figueira , A. Filevich , A. Filipčič , B. D. Fox , O. Fratu , U. Fröhlich , B. Fuchs , T. Fuji , R. Gaior , B. García , S. T. Garcia Roca , D. Garcia-Gamez , D. Garcia-Pinto , G. Garilli , A. Gascon Bravo , F. Gate , H. Gemmeke , P. L. Ghia , U. Giaccari , M. Giammarchi , M. Giller , C. Glaser , H. Glass , F. Gomez Albarracin , M. Gómez Berisso , P. F. Gómez Vitale , P. Gonçalves , J. G. Gonzalez , B. Gookin , A. Gorgi , P. Gorham , P. Gouffon , S. Grebe , N. Griffith , A. F. Grillo , T. D. Grubb , Y. Guardincerri , F. Guarino , G. P. Guedes , P. Hansen , D. Harari , T. A. Harrison , J. L. Harton , A. Haungs , T. Hebbeker , D. Heck , P. Heimann , A. E. Herve , G. C. Hill , C. Hojvat , N. Hollon , E. Holt , P. Homola , J. R. Hörandel , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovský , D. Huber , T. Huege , A. Insolia , P. G. Isar , K. Islo , I. Jandt , S. Jansen , C. Jarne , M. Josebachuili , A. Kääpä , O. Kambeitz , K. H. Kampert , P. Kasper , I. Katkov , B. Kégl , B. Keilhauer , A. Keivani , E. Kemp , R. M. Kieckhafer , H. O. Klages , M. Kleifges , J. Kleinfeller , R. Krause , N. Krohm , O. Krömer , D. 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Montanet , C. Morello , J. C. Moreno , M. Mostafá , C. A. Moura , M. A. Muller , G. Müller , M. Münchmeyer , R. Mussa , G. Navarra , S. Navas , P. Necesal , L. Nellen , A. Nelles , J. Neuser , D. Newton , M. Niechciol , L. Niemietz , T. Niggemann , D. Nitz , D. Nosek , V. Novotny , L. Nožka , L. Ochilo , A. Olinto , M. Oliveira , V. M. Olmos-Gilbaja , M. Ortiz , N. Pacheco , D. Pakk Selmi-Dei , M. Palatka , J. Pallotta , N. Palmieri , P. Papenbreer , G. Parente , A. Parra , S. Pastor , T. Paul , M. Pech , J. Pȩkala , R. Pelayo , I. M. Pepe , L. Perrone , R. Pesce , E. Petermann , C. Peters , S. Petrera , A. Petrolini , Y. Petrov , R. Piegaia , T. Pierog , P. Pieroni , M. Pimenta , V. Pirronello , M. Platino , M. Plum , A. Porcelli , C. Porowski , P. Privitera , M. Prouza , V. Purrello , E. J. Quel , S. Querchfeld , S. Quinn , J. Rautenberg , O. Ravel , D. Ravignani , B. Revenu , J. Ridky , S. Riggi , M. Risse , P. Ristori , V. Rizi , J. Roberts , W. Rodrigues de Carvalho , I. 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CHEC: A Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution to gamma rays across orders of magnitude in energy. Above 1 TeV up to around 300 TeV an array of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will cover several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Richard White

Construction of a medium-sized Schwarzschild-Couder telescope as a candidate for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: development of the optical alignment system

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , S. Griffiths , B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , M. Limon , I. Mognet , A. Peck , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Yu

Scientific Verification of the High Altitude Water Cherenkov observatory

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a TeV gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector currently under construction at an altitude of 4100 m close to volcano Sierra Negra in the state of Puebla, Mexico. The HAWC observatory is an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Antonio Marinelli , Kathryne Sparks , Ruben Alfaro , María Magdalena González , Barbara Patricelli , Nissim Fraija

Impact of E-ELT laser light on Cherenkov Telescope Array cameras

As one of the options, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium is considering the possibility to install its Southern array in Chile, in the Atacama Desert. The envisaged site is situated about 5 km from the future European Extremely…

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

Herschel-ATLAS: deep HST/WFC3 imaging of strongly lensed submillimeter galaxies

We report on deep near-infrared observations obtained with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of the first five confirmed gravitational lensing events discovered by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 M. Negrello , R. Hopwood , S. Dye , E. da Cunha , S. Serjeant , S. Fleuren , R. S. Bussmann , A. Cooray , H. Dannerbauer , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , A. Lapi , A. Omont , S. Amber , R. Auld , M. Baes , S. Buttiglione , A. Cava , L. Danese , A. Dariush , G. De Zotti , L. Dunne , S. Eales , J. Fritz , E. Ibar , R. Ivison , S. Kim , S. Maddox , M. J. Michalowski , E. Pascale , M. Pohlen , E. Rigby , K. Rowlands , D. J. B. Smith , W. Sutherland , P. Temi , J. Wardlow

GAW - An Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope with Large Field of View

GAW, acronym for Gamma Air Watch, is a Research and Development experiment in the TeV range, whose main goal is to explore the feasibility of large field of view Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. GAW is an array of three relatively…

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Testing Model Predictions of Depth of Air-Shower Maximum and Signals in Surface Detectors using Hybrid Data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

We present a method for testing the predictions of hadronic interaction models and improving their consistency with observed two-dimensional distributions of the depth of shower maximum, $X_\text{max}$, and signal at the ground level as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Jakub Vícha

Measuring temporal characteristics of the Cherenkov radiation signal from extensive air showers of cosmic rays with a wide field-of-view telescope addendum to the Yakutsk array

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

Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy Using Massively Multiplexed Slit-Based Techniques and Sub-Field Motion Correction

Targeting dynamic spatially-extended phenomena in the upper solar atmosphere, a new instrument concept has been developed and tested at the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico, USA, that provides wide-field, rapid-scanning, high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-17 Thomas A. Schad , Haosheng Lin

I3T: Intensity Interferometry Imaging Telescope

We propose a new approach, based on the Hanbury Brown and Twiss intensity interferometry, to transform a Cherenkov telescope to its equivalent optical telescope. We show that, based on the use of photonics components borrowed from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Pierre-Marie Gori , Farrokh Vakili , Jean-Pierre Rivet , William Guerin , Mathilde Hugbart , Andrea Chiavassa , Adrien Vakili , Robin Kaiser , Guillaume Labeyrie

Validating Monte Carlo simulations for an analysis chain in H.E.S.S

Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very high energetic (VHE) gamma rays. They observe the Cherenkov light emitted in electromagnetic shower cascades that gamma rays induce in the atmosphere. A precise reconstruction of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Fabian Leuschner , Johannes Schäfer , Simon Steinmassl , Tim Lukas Holch , Konrad Bernlöhr , Stefan Funk , Jim Hinton , Stefan Ohm , Gerd Pühlhofer

High Quantum Efficiency Phototubes for Atmospheric Fluorescence Telescopes

The detection of atmospheric fluorescence light from extensive air showers has become a powerful tool for accurate measurements of the energy and mass of ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles. Employing large area imaging telescopes with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Daniel Kruppke-Hansen , Karl-Heinz Kampert

Monte Carlo Performance Studies for the Site Selection of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, aimed at improving on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , J. Cortina , P. Cumani , F. Di Pierro , D. Falceta-Goncalves , R. G. Lang , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , A. Morselli , C. J. Todero Peixoto , M. Wood