TY - GEN
T1 - STATUS Of the monoscopic analysis chains for H.E.S.S. II
AU - FOR THE H.E.S.S. COLLABORATION
AU - Holler, Markus
AU - Balzer, Arnim
AU - Becherini, Yvonne
AU - Klepser, Stefan
AU - Murach, Thomas
AU - De Naurois, Mathieu
AU - Parsons, Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) measuring cosmic gamma-rays with very high energies in Namibia. Extending the array with a fifth telescope with a mirror area of 600m2 leads to a lower energy threshold as well as an increased sensitivity of the system. Moreover, it is now the first IACT array consisting of telescopes with different sizes. Low-energetic gamma-rays detected by the telescopes can either be analyzed monoscopically, allowing for a lower threshold, or stereoscopically, using hybrid events only which leads to a better reconstruction performance. We present the status of the monoscopic analysis of H.E.S.S. II events. In order to cross-check the results, we use two independent analysis chains, based on different reconstruction methods. The first method uses the second moments of the cleaned camera image (Hillas parameters) in order to deduce the properties of the primary particle. The background discrimination of this method can be optimized with multi-variate analysis techniques. The second method is based on the comparison of the camera image with the results of a semi-analytical model of the air shower using a Loglikelihood-Maximization. We present the status of these analysis efforts and their respective performances. One of the chains has been applied on real data of the Crab Nebula. All results shown here have to be considered preliminary.
AB - H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) measuring cosmic gamma-rays with very high energies in Namibia. Extending the array with a fifth telescope with a mirror area of 600m2 leads to a lower energy threshold as well as an increased sensitivity of the system. Moreover, it is now the first IACT array consisting of telescopes with different sizes. Low-energetic gamma-rays detected by the telescopes can either be analyzed monoscopically, allowing for a lower threshold, or stereoscopically, using hybrid events only which leads to a better reconstruction performance. We present the status of the monoscopic analysis of H.E.S.S. II events. In order to cross-check the results, we use two independent analysis chains, based on different reconstruction methods. The first method uses the second moments of the cleaned camera image (Hillas parameters) in order to deduce the properties of the primary particle. The background discrimination of this method can be optimized with multi-variate analysis techniques. The second method is based on the comparison of the camera image with the results of a semi-analytical model of the air shower using a Loglikelihood-Maximization. We present the status of these analysis efforts and their respective performances. One of the chains has been applied on real data of the Crab Nebula. All results shown here have to be considered preliminary.
KW - Analysis methods
KW - Monoscopic reconstruction
KW - Monte Carlo simulations
KW - Γ-ray astronomy
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052370272
T3 - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
PB - Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica
T2 - 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
Y2 - 2 July 2013 through 9 July 2013
ER -