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云对IACT在甚高能量下测量的图像参数的影响

Influence of clouds on the parameters of images measured by IACT at very high energies

Dorota Sobczynska, Wlodek Bednarek

摘要:

切伦科夫望远镜的观测原则上仅限于晴朗的天空条件,因为云层对切伦科夫光的吸收很大。如果云的水平足够高或云的大气传输率很高,那么高能量簇射(具有TeV能量)仍然可以产生足够的切伦科夫光子,允许大尺寸望远镜和大视场相机进行探测。在本文中,我们研究的可能性观测阵雨,引起的高能粒子在大气中,在云的存在是完全或部分不透明的切伦科夫辐射。我们展示了如何在望远镜相机上的切伦科夫光分布的图像参数的云的不同的不透明度和高度的影响。应用蒙特卡罗模拟,我们计算了定标的长度和宽度参数,目的是在实际数据中分离γ射线和质子引发的簇射。我们表明,高水平的夜空背景的影响的选择效率的γ射线发起的阵雨。然而,较高图像清洁水平的应用显著地改善了预期的品质因数。估计的伽马射线选择效率的探测器与摄像机FOV限制为8度。比具有无限FOV的相机稍好,尽管识别的伽马射线事件的数量较低。我们的结论是,大型切伦科夫望远镜与大视场相机可以用于观测非常高的能量的伽马射线在云的存在。因此,可以显著地增加有用数据的量。

英文摘要:

Observations with the Cherenkov telescopes are in principle limited to the clear sky conditions due to significant absorption of Cherenkov light by clouds. If the cloud level is high enough or the atmospheric transmission of the cloud is high, then high energy showers (with TeV energies) can still produce enough Cherenkov photons allowing detection by telescopes with large sizes and cameras with large field of view (FOV). In this paper we study the possibility of observations of showers, induced by high energy particles in the atmosphere, in the presence of clouds which are completely or partially opaque for Cherenkov radiation. We show how the image parameters of the Cherenkov light distribution on the telescope camera are influenced for different opacity and altitude of the cloud. By applying the Monte Carlo simulations, we calculate the scaled LENGTH and WIDTH parameters with the purpose to separate gamma-ray and proton initiated showers in real data. We show, that the high level of the night sky background effects the selection efficiency of the gamma-ray initiated showers. However, application of the higher image cleaning level significantly improves expected quality factors. The estimated gamma-ray selection efficiency for the detector with the camera FOV limited to 8 deg. is slightly better than for the camera with unlimited FOV, although the number of identified gamma-ray events is lower. We conclude that large Cherenkov telescopes with large FOV cameras can be used for observations of very high energy gamma-rays in the presence of clouds. Consequently, the amount of useful data can be significantly enlarged.

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