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1. Monitoring the pointing of the Large Size Telescope prototype using star reconstruction in the Cherenkov camera

Author

Foffano, L., Carosi, A., Della Volpe, D., Dalchenko, M., Montaruli on behalf of The CTA-LST Project, M. Heller and T., Abe, H., Aguasca, A., Agudo, I., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Artero, M., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Aubert, P., Baktash, A., Bamba, A., Baquero Larriva, A., Baroncelli, L., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batković, I., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Biederbeck, N., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bose, D., Bulgarelli, A., Burelli, I., Buscemi, M., Cardillo, M., Caroff, S., Cassol, F., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Cheng, K., Chikawa, M., Chytka, L., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costantini, H., De Angelis, A., de Bony de Lavergne, M., Deleglise, G., Delgado, C., Delgado Mengual, J., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Díaz, C., Dominik, R. M., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Escudero, J., Fiasson, A., Fonseca, M. V., Freixas Coromina, L., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Garcia, E., Garcia López, R., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Grespan, P., Gunji, S., Hackfeld, J., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashi, K., Heckmann, L., Herrera Llorente, J., Hirotani, K., Hoffmann, D., Horns, D., Houles, J., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hui, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Inome, Y., Iori, M., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jacquemont, M., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jouvin, L., Juryšek, J., Kagaya, M., Karas, V., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kong, A., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lamastra, A., Le Flour, T., Longo, F., Lopez-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Mariotti, M., Marquez, P., Marsella, G., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, G., Martinez, M., Marusevec, P., Mas, A., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mestre Guillen, E., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Miranda, L. D. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizuno, T., Molina, E., Monteiro, I., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Mrakovcic, K., Murase, K., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nickel, L., Nieto, D., Nievas, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nöthe, M., Nozaki, S., Ohishi, M., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Okazaki, N., Okumura, A., Orito, R., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Pech, M., Pecimotika, M., Poireau, V., Polo, M., Prandini, E., Prast, J., Priyadarshi, C., Prouza, M., Rando, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rizi, V., Rugliancich, A., Ruiz, J. E., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Sanchez, D., Šarić, T., Saturni, F. G., Scherpenberg, J., Schleicher, B., Schubert, J. L., Schüssler, F., Schweizer, T., Seglar Arroyo, M., Shellard, R. C., Sitarek, J., Sliusar, V., Spolon, A., Strišković, J., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Sunada, Y., Tajima, H., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, H., Takata, J., Takeishi, R., Tam, P. T., Tanaka, S., Tateishi, D., Tejedor, L. Á., Temnikov, P., Terada, Y., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Tluczykont, M., Tokanai, F., Torres, D. F., Travnicek, P., Truzzi, S., Vacula, M., Vazquez Acosta, M., Verguilov, V., Verna, G., Viale, I., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Vuillaume, T., Walter, R., Will, M., Yamamoto, T., Yamazaki, R., Yoshida, T., and Zarić, T. Yoshikoshi and D.

Subjects
Computer science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Field of view, Star (graph theory), Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Stars, Sky, law, Overall performance, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Remote sensing
Abstract

The first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) proposed for the forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has started to operate in 2019 in La Palma. The large structure of LST-1 - with a 23 m mirror dish diameter - imposes a strict control of its deformations that could affect the pointing accuracy and its overall performance. According to CTA specifications that are conceived to resolve e.g. the fine structure of galactic sources, the LST post-calibration pointing accuracy should be better than 14 arcseconds. To fulfill this requirement, the telescope pointing precision is monitored with two dedicated CCD cameras located at the dish center. The analysis of their images allows us to disentangle different systematic deformations of the structure. In this work, we investigate a complementary approach that offers the possibility to monitor the pointing of the telescope during the acquisition of sky data. After properly cleaning the events from the Cherenkov showers, the reconstructed positions of the stars imaged in the camera field of view are compared to their nominal expected positions in catalogues. This provides a direct measurement of the telescope pointing, that can be used to cross-check the other methods and as a real-time monitoring of the optical properties of the telescope and of the pointing corrections applied by the bending models. Additionally, this method benefits from not relying on specific hardware or dedicated observations. In this contribution we will illustrate this analysis and show results based on simulations of LST-1.

Published
2021

2. Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array first Large Size Telescope real data using convolutional neural networks

Author

Abe, H., Aguasca, A., Agudo, I., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Artero, M., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Aubert, P., Baktash, A., Bamba, A., Baquero Larriva, A., Baroncelli, L., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batković, I., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Biederbeck, N., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bose, D., Bulgarelli, A., Burelli, I., Buscemi, M., Cardillo, M., Caroff, S., Carosi, A., Cassol, F., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Cheng, K., Chikawa, M., Chytka, L., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costantini, H., Dalchenko, M., De Angelis, A., de Bony de Lavergne, M., Deleglise, G., Delgado, C., Delgado Mengual, J., Della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Díaz, C., Dominik, R. M., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Escudero, J., Fiasson, A., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Freixas Coromina, L., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Garcia, E., Garcia López, R., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Grespan, P., Gunji, S., Hackfeld, J., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashi, K., Heckmann, L., Heller, M., Herrera Llorente, J., Hirotani, K., Hoffmann, D., Horns, D., Houles, J., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hui, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Inome, Y., Iori, M., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jacquemont, M., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jouvin, L., Juryšek, J., Kagaya, M., Karas, V., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kong, A., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lamastra, A., Le Flour, T., Longo, F., Lopez-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Mariotti, M., Marquez, P., Marsella, G., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, G., Martinez, M., Marusevec, P., Mas, A., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mestre Guillen, E., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Miranda, L. D. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizuno, T., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Monteiro, I., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Mrakovcic, K., Murase, K., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nickel, L., Nieto, D., Nievas, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nöthe, M., Nozaki, S., Ohishi, M., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Okazaki, N., Okumura, A., Orito, R., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Pech, M., Pecimotika, M., Poireau, V., Polo, M., Prandini, E., Prast, J., Priyadarshi, C., Prouza, M., Rando, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rizi, V., Rugliancich, A., Ruiz, J. E., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Sanchez, D., Šarić, T., Saturni, F. G., Scherpenberg, J., Schleicher, B., Schubert, J. L., Schüssler, F., Schweizer, T., Seglar Arroyo, M., Shellard, R. C., Sitarek, J., Sliusar, V., Spolon, A., Strišković, J., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Sunada, Y., Tajima, H., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, H., Takata, J., Takeishi, R., Tam, P. T., Tanaka, S., Tateishi, D., Tejedor, L. Á., Temnikov, P., Terada, Y., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Tluczykont, M., Tokanai, F., Torres, D. F., Travnicek, P., Truzzi, S., Vacula, M., Vazquez Acosta, M., Verguilov, V., Verna, G., Viale, I., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Vuillaume, T., Walter, R., Will, M., Yamamoto, T., Yamazaki, R., Yoshida, T., Yoshikoshi, T., Zarić, D., Benoit, A., and Lambert, P.

Subjects
Computer science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Monte Carlo method, Night sky, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Convolutional neural network, law.invention, Telescope, law, Observatory, Energy (signal processing), Cherenkov radiation, Remote sensing
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The first CTA prototype telescope built on-site, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1), is under commissioning in La Palma and has already taken data on numerous known sources. IACTs detect the faint flash of Cherenkov light indirectly produced after a very energetic gamma-ray photon has interacted with the atmosphere and generated an atmospheric shower. Reconstruction of the characteristics of the primary photons is usually done using a parameterization up to the third order of the light distribution of the images. In order to go beyond this classical method, new approaches are being developed using state-of-the-art methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to reconstruct the properties of each event (incoming direction, energy and particle type) directly from the telescope images. While promising, these methods are notoriously difficult to apply to real data due to differences (such as different levels of night sky background) between Monte Carlo (MC) data used to train the network and real data. The GammaLearn project, based on these CNN approaches, has already shown an increase in sensitivity on MC simulations for LST-1 as well as a lower energy threshold. This work applies the GammaLearn network to real data acquired by LST-1 and compares the results to the classical approach that uses random forests trained on extracted image parameters. The improvements on the background rejection, event direction, and energy reconstruction are discussed in this contribution.

Published
2021

3. Reconstruction of extensive air shower images of the first Large Size Telescope prototype of CTA using a novel likelihood technique

Author

Alispach, C. M., Abe, H., Aguasca, A., Agudo, I., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Artero, M., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Aubert, P., Baktash, A., Bamba, A., Baquero Larriva, A., Baroncelli, L., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batković, I., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Biederbeck, N., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bose, D., Bulgarelli, A., Burelli, I., Buscemi, M., Cardillo, M., Caroff, S., Carosi, A., Cassol, F., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Cheng, K., Chikawa, M., Chytka, L., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costantini, H., Dalchenko, M., De Angelis, A., de Bony de Lavergne, M., Deleglise, G., Delgado, C., Delgado Mengual, J., Della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Díaz, C., Dominik, R. M., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Escudero, J., Fiasson, A., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Freixas Coromina, L., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Garcia, E., Garcia López, R., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Grespan, P., Gunji, S., Hackfeld, J., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashi, K., Heckmann, L., Heller, M., Herrera Llorente, J., Hirotani, K., Hoffmann, D., Horns, D., Houles, J., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hui, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Inome, Y., Iori, M., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jacquemont, M., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jouvin, L., Juryšek, J., Kagaya, M., Karas, V., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kong, A., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lamastra, A., Le Flour, T., Longo, F., Lopez-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Mariotti, M., Marquez, P., Marsella, G., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, G., Martinez, M., Marusevec, P., Mas, A., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mestre Guillen, E., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Miranda, L. D. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizuno, T., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Monteiro, I., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Mrakovcic, K., Murase, K., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nickel, L., Nieto, D., Nievas, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nöthe, M., Nozaki, S., Ohishi, M., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Okazaki, N., Okumura, A., Orito, R., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Pech, M., Pecimotika, M., Poireau, V., Polo, M., Prandini, E., Prast, J., Priyadarshi, C., Prouza, M., Rando, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rizi, V., Rugliancich, A., Ruiz, J. E., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Sanchez, D., Šarić, T., Saturni, F. G., Scherpenberg, J., Schleicher, B., Schubert, J. L., Schüssler, F., Schweizer, T., Seglar Arroyo, M., Shellard, R. C., Sitarek, J., Sliusar, V., Spolon, A., Strišković, J., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Sunada, Y., Tajima, H., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, H., Takata, J., Takeishi, R., Tam, P. T., Tanaka, S., Tateishi, D., Tejedor, L. Á., Temnikov, P., Terada, Y., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Tluczykont, M., Tokanai, F., Torres, D. F., Travnicek, P., Truzzi, S., Vacula, M., Vazquez Acosta, M., Verguilov, V., Verna, G., Viale, I., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Vuillaume, T., Walter, R., Will, M., Yamamoto, T., Yamazaki, R., Yoshida, T., Yoshikoshi, T., and Zarić, D.

Subjects
Physics, Pixel, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, IACT, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Cardinal point, Air shower, Crab Nebula, law, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy aims at reconstructing the energy and direction of gamma rays from the extensive air showers they initiate in the atmosphere. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) collect the Cherenkov light induced by secondary charged particles in extensive air showers (EAS), creating an image of the shower in a camera positioned in the focal plane of optical systems. This image is used to evaluate the type, energy and arrival direction of the primary particle that initiated the shower. This contribution shows the results of a novel reconstruction method based on likelihood maximization. The novelty with respect to previous likelihood reconstruction methods lies in the definition of a likelihood per single camera pixel, accounting not only for the total measured charge, but also for its development over time. This leads to more precise reconstruction of shower images. The method is applied to observations of the Crab Nebula acquired with the Large Size Telescope prototype (LST-1) deployed at the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array., Comment: Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), Berlin, Germany. https://pos.sissa.it/395/716

Published
2021
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4. Cross-calibration and combined analysis of the CTA-LST prototype and the MAGIC telescopes

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Ohtani, Y., Berti, A., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Green, D., Heckmann, L., Hütten, M., Inada, T., López-Coto, R., Medina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Pirola, G., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Vovk, I., Abe, H., Aguasca, A., Agudo, I., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Artero, M., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Aubert, P., Baktash, A., Bamba, A., Baquero Larriva, A., Baroncelli, L., Barres Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batkovic, I., Becerra González, J., Bernardos, M. I., Biederbeck, N., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bose, D., Bulgarelli, A., Burelli, I., Buscemi, M., Cardillo, M., Caroff, S., Carosi, A., Cassol, F., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Cheng, K., Chikawa, M., Chytka, L., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costantini, H., Dalchenko, M., Angelis, A., Bony Lavergne, M., Deleglise, G., Delgado, C., Delgado Mengual, J., Della Volpe, D., Di Venere, L., Díaz, C., Dominik, R. M., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsässer, D., Emery, G., Escudero, J., Fiasson, A., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Freixas Coromina, L., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Garcia, E., Garcia López, R., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Grespan, P., Gunji, S., Hackfeld, J., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashi, K., Heller, M., Herrera Llorente, J., Hirotani, K., Hoffmann, D., Horns, D., Houles, J., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Hui, D., Inome, Y., Iori, M., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jacquemont, M., Jimenez Martinez, I., Jouvin, L., Jakub Jurysek, Kagaya, M., Karas, V., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kong, A., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lamastra, A., Le Flour, T., Longo, F., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Luque-Escamilla, P. L., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mandat, D., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Mariotti, M., Marquez, P., Marsella, G., Martí, J., Martinez, O., Martínez, G., Martínez, M., Marusevec, P., Mas, A., Maurin, G., Mazin, D., Mestre Guillen, E., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Miranda, L. D. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizuno, T., Molina, E., Montaruli, T., Monteiro, I., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Mrakovcic, K., Murase, K., Nagai, A., Nakamori, T., Nickel, L., Nieto, D., Nievas, M., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nosek, D., Nöthe, M., Nozaki, S., Ohishi, M., Oka, T., Okazaki, N., Okumura, A., Orito, R., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Pech, M., Pecimotika, M., Poireau, V., Polo, M., Prandini, E., Prast, J., Priyadarshi, C., Prouza, M., Rando, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rizi, V., Rugliancich, A., Ruiz, J. E., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Sanchez, D. A., Šarić, T., Saturni, F. G., Scherpenberg, J., Schleicher, B., Schubert, J. L., Schussler, F., Schweizer, T., Seglar Arroyo, M., Shellard, R. C., Sitarek, J., Sliusar, V., Spolon, A., Strišković, J., Sunada, Y., Tajima, H., Takahashi, M., Takahashi, H., Takata, J., Takeishi, R., Tam, P. H. T., Tanaka, S. J., Tateishi, D., Tejedor, L. A., Temnikov, P., Terada, Y., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Tluczykont, M., Tokanai, F., Torres, D. F., Travnicek, P., Truzzi, S., Vacula, M., Vázquez Acosta, M., Verguilov, V., Verna, G., Viale, I., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vuillaume, T., Walter, R., Will, M., Yamamoto, T., Yamazaki, R., Yoshida, T., Yoshikoshi, T., Zarić, D., Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Arbet Engels, A., Baack, D., Babić, A., Baquero, A., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Bökenkamp, H., Bošnjak, Ž, Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Covino, S., D Amico, G., D Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Delgado Mendez, C., Do Souto Espiñeira, E., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Font, L., Fruck, C., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Green, J. G., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jormanainen, J., Karjalainen, M., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Linhoff, L., Lombardi, S., Loporchio, S., Machado Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Maraschi, L., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Moreno, V., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Paiano, S., Peñil, P., Persic, M., Pihet, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Puljak, I., Rico, J., Righi, C., Sahakyan, N., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Tosti, L., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., Vanzo, G., Ventura, S., and Wunderlich, C.

Subjects
Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Crab Nebula, Air shower, law, Observatory, MAGIC (telescope), Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Computer Science::Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory, which will consist of three kinds of telescopes of different sizes. Among those, the Large Size Telescope (LST) will be the most sensitive in the low energy range starting from 20 GeV. The prototype LST (LST-1) proposed for CTA was inaugurated in October 2018 in the northern hemisphere site, La Palma (Spain), and is currently in its commissioning phase. MAGIC is a system of two gamma-ray Cherenkov telescopes of the current generation, located approximately 100 m away from LST-1, that have been operating in stereoscopic mode since 2009. Since LST-1 and MAGIC can observe the same air shower events, we can compare the brightness of showers, estimated energies of gamma rays, and other parameters event by event, which can be used to cross-calibrate the telescopes. Ultimately, by performing combined analyses of the events triggering the three telescopes, we can reconstruct the shower geometry more accurately, leading to better energy and angular resolutions, and a better discrimination of the background showers initiated by cosmic rays. For that purpose, as part of the commissioning of LST-1, we performed joint observations of established gamma-ray sources with LST-1 and MAGIC. Also, we have developed Monte Carlo simulations for such joint observations and an analysis pipeline which finds event coincidence in the offline analysis based on their timestamps. In this work, we present the first detection of an astronomical source, the Crab Nebula, with combined observation of LST-1 and MAGIC. Moreover, we show results of the inter-telescope cross-calibration obtained using Crab Nebula data taken during joint observations with LST-1 and MAGIC., Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), Berlin, Germany

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