Analysis of the TAIGA-HiSCORE data. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Samoliga, V
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Volume 1690(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1690/1/012018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: TAIGA-HiSCORE is an extensive air shower array of 120 Cherenkov detectors spread over an area of 1 km 2 . It is designed to detect cosmic rays with energies from 50 TeV to 1000 PeV. Also TAIGA-HiSCORE is planned to use for gamma-ray astronomy in cooperation with the other installations of the TAIGA observatory. This work is dedicated to the analysis of the TAIGA-HiSCORE single-mode data. We consider a possibility to detect gamma-ray point source with excess of events from the source direction. For this purpose, a method for estimation of the signal significance is proposed. It takes into account the angular acceptance of the TAIGA-HiSCORE installation. The method is tested on the Monte-Carlo toy model.