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Shoushan Zhang

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Enhancing the Angular Resolution of Large Array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (LACT) at Ultra-High Energies

The Large Array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (LACT) is dedicated to high-resolution morphological studies of PeVatrons. In this work, we present a fundamental investigation into stereoscopic direction reconstruction for the LACT array, specifically addressing the challenges of ultra-high-energy observations. We demonstrate that the standard Hillas parameterization introduces a significant reconstruction bias under severe image leakage. To mitigate this, we introduce an approach utilizing a 2D Gaussian fit, achieving an exceptional angular resolution of better than $0.06^\circ$ at $100\text{ TeV}$ within the central $0^\circ\text{--}1^\circ$ offset bin, and maintaining better than $0.12^\circ$ across offsets up to $4^{\circ}$. Building on this robust baseline, we evaluate advanced weighting schemes by utilizing a LightGBM-based quantile regression model to independently estimate single-image quality. Applying these quality-based weights yields a consistent improvement of $0.02^\circ$ to $0.03^\circ$ for high-energy, large-offset events using both the \textit{HillasWeightedSum} and \textit{HillasWeightedDisp} methods. Finally, to establish a theoretical performance ceiling, we explore a pixel-wise likelihood reconstruction technique utilizing Neural Ratio Estimation. While its practical realization depends heavily on minimizing the gap between Monte Carlo simulations and observational data, this exploratory approach demonstrates the potential to yield an overall improvement of approximately 15\% to 40\% at $100~\rm TeV$ across the entire field of view. Such high angular resolution is critical for disentangling complex emission regions and mapping the internal structures of PeVatrons.

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Performance of LACT Array: Instrument Response Functions and Source Prospects

Large Array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (LACT) is an array of 32 Cherenkov telescopes with 6-meter diameter mirrors to be constructed at the LHAASO site, aiming to enhance our understanding of ultra-high energy gamma ray astronomy. This work presents a detailed performance assessment of the LACT array, focusing on the IRFs for both an 8-telescope subarray configuration optimized for large zenith angle observations (60{\deg}) and the full 32-telescope array, with a particular emphasis on a 20{\deg} zenith angle configuration for lower energy threshold observations. We have generated IRFs using extensive Monte Carlo simulations of gamma-ray showers and the detector response. The IRFs include the effective area, angular resolution, and energy resolution as a function of energy and offset angle. Crucially, these IRFs are produced in the standard Data format for Gamma ray astronomy (GADF), ensuring interoperability with existing analysis tools like Gammapy and ctools and enabling seamless integration into scientific workflows. In this work, we also have used these GADF-format IRFs to simulate observations towards the Galactic Center Region.

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Prospects for joint reconstruction of imaging air Cherenkov Telescope array and extensive air shower array

In this paper we proposed a joint reconstruction of \gray events using both extensive air array (EAS) and Imaging air Cherenkov Telescope array (IACT). We considered eight Cherenkov telescopes to be built on the LHAASO (Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory) site and investigate the improvement in differential sensitivity when combining the information from both IACT and Moun detectors of LHAASO-KM2A. We found that due to the higher cosmic ray background rejection power and higher gamma ray retention ratio provided by muon detectors of LHAASO, such a joint reconstruction can significantly improve the sensitivity of IACTs, especially for extended sources and long exposure time. In this article, we have shown the performance of an eight-telescopes mini array, and our results indicate that above $10~\rm TeV$, the sensitivity can be improved by muon detector from $25\% - 60\%$ in different energy ranges.

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