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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) represent a class of instruments which are dedicated to the ground-based observation of cosmic VHE gamma ray emission based on the detection of the Cherenkov radiation produced in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 C. Arcaro , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , M. Doro , C. Manea , M. Mariotti , R. Rando , I. Reichardt , D. Tescaro

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

Precision measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies require excellent rejection of common-mode signals and wide frequency coverage. We describe an imaging, efficient, differential Fourier transform spectrometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-27 Alessandro Schillaci , Giuseppe D' Alessandro , Paolo de Bernardis , Silvia Masi , Camila Paiva Novaes , Massimo Gervasi , Mario Zannoni

Muons produced in Extensive Air Showers (EAS) generate ring-like images in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes when travelling near parallel to the optical axis. From geometrical parameters of these images, the absolute amount of light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. M. W. Mitchell , V. Marandon , R. D. Parsons

We present a sophisticated gamma-ray likelihood reconstruction technique for Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes. The technique is based on the comparison of the raw Cherenkov camera pixel images of a photon induced atmospheric particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mathieu de Naurois , Loic Rolland

Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect the Cherenkov light flashes of Extended Air Showers (EAS) triggered by very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere. Due to the overwhelming background from hadron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-06 S. C. Commichau , A. Biland , D. Kranich , R. de los Reyes , A. Moralejo , D. Sobczynska

We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 M. Wood , T. Jogler , J. Dumm , S. Funk

The use of Fourier methods in wave-front reconstruction can significantly reduce the computation time for large telescopes with a high number of degrees of freedom. However, Fourier algorithms for discrete data require a rectangular data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Charlotte Z. Bond , Carlos M. Correia , Jean-François Sauvage , Benoit Neichel , Thierry Fusco

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 state-of-the-art automotive radars employ multidimensional discrete Fourier transforms (DFT) in order to estimate various target parameters. The DFT is implemented using the fast Fourier transform (FFT), at sample and computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Shaogang Wang , Vishal M. Patel , Athina Petropulu

We suggest a new approach to study the cosmis ray (CR) mass composition in the energy region from 30 TeV/nucleus up to the "knee" region, i.e. up to a few PeV/nucleus, using an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Aharonian , V. V. Bugayov , J. Kettler , A. V. Plyasheshnikov , H. J. Voelk

High energy cosmic-rays generate air showers when they enter Earth's atmosphere. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is possible using either direct detection of shower particles at mountain altitudes, or with arrays of imaging air-Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Clara Escañuela Nieves , Felix Werner , Jim Hinton

We present a high-performance event reconstruction algorithm: an Image Pixel-wise fit for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ImPACT). The reconstruction algorithm is based around the likelihood fitting of camera pixel amplitudes to an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-20 R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton

Current optimization of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes arrays, also called Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) arrays, relies on brute-force human-driven approaches based on large simulations requiring both high amount of storage and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Cyril Alispach , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli

For the analysis of data taken by Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), a large number of air shower simulations are needed to derive the instrument response. The simulations are very complex, involving computational and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Christian Elflein , Stefan Funk , Jonas Glombitza

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

We introduce a new simulation and analysis paradigm for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) arrays, simulating the actual observation conditions as well as individual telescope configuration for each observation unit. Compared to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 M. Holler , J. -P. Lenain , M. de Naurois , R. Rauth , D. A. Sanchez

We present a new approach to the pointing determination of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). This method is universal and can be applied to any IACT with minor modifications. It uses the trajectories of the stars in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Mykhailo Dalchenko , Matthieu Heller

Though Fourier Transforms (FTs) are a common technique for finding correlation functions, they are not typically used in computations of the anisotropy of the two-point correlation function (2PCF) about the line of sight in wide-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zachary Slepian , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is designed to be the next major observatory operating in the Very High Energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma-ray band. It will build on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique but will go much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 M. G. Bernardini