Particle identification in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy using convolutional neural networks

no code implementations • 4 Dec 2018 • E. B. Postnikov, I. V. Bychkov, J. Y. Dubenskaya, O. L. Fedorov, Y. A. Kazarina, E. E. Korosteleva, A. P. Kryukov, A. A. Mikhailov, M. D. Nguyen, S. P. Polyakov, A. O. Shigarov, D. A. Shipilov, D. P. Zhurov

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels.

Astronomy