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Lombardi, Saverio
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2011), held 11-18 August, 2011 in Beijing, China. Vol. 3 HE1.4: Extensive Air Showers and HE Cosmic Rays., p.262
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Description
The MAGIC experiment was upgraded to a two-telescope system in 2009.
Unlike other Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope arrays, MAGIC has operated
for five years exclusively in monoscopic mode, and the single telescope
analysis was optimized throughout this time. To improve the analysis, we
used techniques like the random forest event classification method for
different purposes, and sophisticated image cleaning algorithms. The
monoscopic performance was optimized in the energy domain around and
below 100 GeV, which is inaccessible for the other arrays of Cherenkov
telescopes. Still, with these analysis techniques, we were competitive
also in the TeV regime. In the recent development of the stereoscopic
analysis chain, the know-how of these single telescope techniques was
combined with the new possibilities of the three-dimensional
reconstruction, taking advantage both of the richness of single images
and their projections onto the sky. We present recent advancements in
the image cleaning and direction reconstruction algorithms, sky mapping
and other procedures currently used in the analysis of MAGIC stereo
data.