Miener, T, Nieto, D, Brill, A, Spencer, S, Contreras, JL, Abdalla, H, Abe, H, Abe, S, Abusleme, A, Acero, F et al (show 90 more authors)
(2022)
Reconstruction of stereoscopic CTA events using deep learning with CTLearn.
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Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation instruments a factor of five to ten and provide energy coverage from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. Arrays of IACTs probe the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. Their working principle consists of the simultaneous observation of air showers initiated by the interaction of very-high-energy gamma rays and cosmic rays with the atmosphere. Cherenkov photons induced by a given shower are focused onto the camera plane of the telescopes in the array, producing a multi-stereoscopic record of the event. This image contains the longitudinal development of the air shower, together with its spatial, temporal, and calorimetric information. The properties of the originating very-high-energy particle (type, energy, and incoming direction) can be inferred from those images by reconstructing the full event using machine learning techniques. In this contribution, we present a purely deep-learning driven, full-event reconstruction of simulated, stereoscopic IACT events using CTLearn. CTLearn is a package that includes modules for loading and manipulating IACT data and for running deep learning models, using pixel-wise camera data as input.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2023 09:09 |
Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2023 09:09 |
URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169097 |