Pecimotika, Mario; Sitarek, Julian; Żywucka, Natalia; Sobczyńska, Dorota; Moralejo, Abelardo; Hrupec, Dario (2025) Estimation of the atmospheric transmission profile with the IACT background data. In: Colalillo, Roberta; Sannino, Alessia; Valore, Laura, (eds.) Atmospheric Monitoring for High Energy Astroparticle Detectors 2024 (AtmoHEAD 2024) : Conference Proceedings. Bristol, IOP Publishing, .
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Abstract
We present a novel method to determine the atmospheric transmission profile from the isotropic background events detected by the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. We construct a longitudinal distribution of the observed Cherenkov light by relating its emission height to a specific pixel in the camera. For this, we use a simple geometric model based on the parameters of the air shower. By comparing this distribution between cloudless and cloudy atmospheres, we were able to obtain the transmission profile during data acquisition. Using Monte Carlo simulations of a subarray of four Large-Sized Telescopes of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, we have evaluated the performance of the proposed method and tested a number of possible systematic errors that could influence the method. The proposed method achieves typical systematic accuracy within a few per cent. The aggregated profiles of the observed Cherenkov light can be reconstructed with a statistical accuracy of ≲ 5% with only a 5-minute exposure.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item published in conference proceedings (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes; atmospheric transmission; isotropic background; Monte Carlo simulations; Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory | ||||||||
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics > Astronomy and Astrophysics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Theoretical Physics Division | ||||||||
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| Depositing User: | Ema Buhin Šaler | ||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2026 12:47 | ||||||||
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/11649 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1088/1742-6596/2985/1/012003 |
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