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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a ground-based air shower array designed to detect Cherenkov light produced in water by secondary particles from atmospheric air showers. In order to improve the sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Dezhi Huang

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory comprises 300 water Cherenkov detectors, each equipped with four photomultipliers, located on the Volc\'{a}n Sierra Negra in Mexico at 4,100 masl. This observatory can detect gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 J. Jaimes , T. Capistrán , I. Torres

Cherenkov telescopes are also sensitive to the atmospheric fluorescence produced by the extensive air showers. However this contribution is neglected by the reconstruction algorithms of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes IACTs and wide-angle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Fernando Arqueros , Jaime Rosado , Daniel Morcuende , José Luis Contreras

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

The operation of a wide field-of-view (WFOV) Cherenkov telescope is described. The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) of cosmic rays (CR) is based upon the coincidence with signals from the Yakutsk array. The data acquisition system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-08 A. A. Ivanov , S. V. Matarkin , L. V. Timofeev

A successful class of image denoising methods is based on Bayesian approaches working in wavelet representations. However, analytical estimates can be obtained only for particular combinations of analytical models of signal and noise, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Valero Laparra , Juan Gutiérrez , Gustavo Camps-Valls , Jesús Malo

Inpainting is the technique of reconstructing unknown or damaged portions of an image in a visually plausible way. Inpainting algorithm automatically fills the damaged region in an image using the information available in undamaged region.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-14 S. Padmavathi , B. Priyalakshmi. Dr. K. P. Soman

Deconvolving COMPTEL gamma-ray data into images presents a major methodological challenge. We developed a new algorithm called Multiresolution Regularized Expectation Maximization (MREM), which explicitly accounts for spatial correlations…

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) of gamma ray observatory TAIGA detect the Extesnive Air Showers (EASs) originating from the cosmic or gamma rays interactions with the atmosphere. Thereby, telescopes obtain images of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 E. O. Gres , A. P. Kryukov , A. P. Demichev , J. J. Dubenskaya , S. P. Polyakov , A. A. Vlaskina , D. P. Zhurov

This paper presents a neural-network-based solution to recover pixels occluded by clouds in satellite images. We leverage radio frequency (RF) signals in the ultra/super-high frequency band that penetrate clouds to help reconstruct the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Mingmin Zhao , Peder A. Olsen , Ranveer Chandra

This work is unique in the use of discrete wavelets that were built from or derived from Chebyshev polynomials of the second and third kind, filter the Discrete Second Chebyshev Wavelets Transform (DSCWT), and derive two effective filters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hassan Mohamed Muhi-Aldeen , Maha Ammar Mustafa , Asma A. Abdulrahman , Jabbar Abed Eleiwy , Fouad S. Tahir , Yurii Khlaponin

During the last decade ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy achieved a remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. It is widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , A. Chilingarian , A. Reimers

A dramatic progress in the field of computer vision has been made in recent years by applying deep learning techniques. State-of-the-art performance in image recognition is thereby reached with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-07 Tim Lukas Holch , Idan Shilon , Matthias Büchele , Tobias Fischer , Stefan Funk , Nils Groeger , David Jankowsky , Thomas Lohse , Ullrich Schwanke , Philipp Wagner

The MAGIC experiment was upgraded to a two-telescope system in 2009. Unlike other Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope arrays, MAGIC has operated for five years exclusively in monoscopic mode, and the single telescope analysis was optimized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Lombardi , K. Berger , P. Colin , A. Diago Ortega , S. Klepser

The angular resolution of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes depends on the employed event reconstruction methods. By taking the weighted average of intersections of shower axes, the H.E.S.S. experiment achieves a 0.08 degree angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 C. -C. Lu

So far, cosmic ray air showers have been detected using scintillation counter arrays on the ground widely. And also air Cherenkov detection method, which is limited its observation period in moonless nights, has been adopted. The detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Yoshitaka Kawashima

Sparse digital antenna arrays constitute a promising detection technique for future large-scale cosmic-ray observatories. It has recently been shown that this kind of instrumentation can provide a resolution of the energy and of the shower…

In this paper a comparative study between Moravec and Harris Corner Detection has been done for obtaining features required to track and recognize objects within a noisy image. Corner detection of noisy images is a challenging task in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-10 Nilanjan Dey , Pradipti Nandi , Nilanjana Barman , Debolina Das , Subhabrata Chakraborty

The attenuation of atmospheric Cherenkov photons is dominated by two processes: Rayleigh scattering from the molecular component and Mie scattering from the aerosol component. Aerosols are expected to contribute up to 30 Wm$^{-2}$ to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-19 Michael Daniel , George Vasileiadis

CTLearn is a new Python package under development that uses the deep learning technique to analyze data from imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays. IACTs use the Cherenkov light emitted from air showers, initiated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 D. Nieto , A. Brill , Q. Feng , T. B. Humensky , B. Kim , T. Miener , R. Mukherjee , J. Sevilla