Speaker
Henrike Fleischhack
(DESY)
Description
VERITAS is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array that is sensitive to very-high energy gamma-rays from 85 GeV to 30 TeV. We present a high-performance shower-image analysis. The algorithm is based on the likelihood fitting of the charge amplitude in the camera pixels to an expected image template. The templates are generated by performing Monte-Carlo simulations of a large number of air showers for a given event parameter set, followed by ray-tracing of the telescope optics. A maximum likelihood fit is performed to find the best-fit shower parameters. A related reconstruction algorithm has already been shown to provide significant improvements over traditional reconstruction for both the CAT and H.E.S.S. experiments.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 225 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | VERITAS |
Author
Dr
Stephane Vincent
(DESY)
Co-author
Henrike Fleischhack
(DESY)
