PKS1424+240 (LST) analysis - neutrino candidate

Analysis of LST-1 PKS 1424+240 - neutrino candidate

General information

Name of the source: PKS 1424+240

Brief description of the source:

• It is the farthest BL Lac detected at TeV
• It is an IBL/HBL
• z ~ 0.6
• RA, Dec (deg) : 216.75163247, 23.80001042

Analysis by Name (Institute - email)

• Davide Cerasole
• Gloria Maria Cicciari (gloriamaria.cicciari@unipa.it)
• Sara Fogliaceo
• Serena Loporchio
• Manuela Mallamaci
• Salvatore Mangano
• Giovanni Marsella
• Elisa Prandini
• Ilaria Viale
• Elisa Visentin

Data-taking information

Cycle I observations 2023-01-23 to 2023-07-17

• Dates of data-taking: 2023/01/23, 2023/01/27, 2023/03/10, 2023/04/18, 2023/05/12, 2023/05/15, 2023/05/22, 2023/07/17
• Observation runs selected are: [11805 11806 11807 11808 11933 11934 11935 11936 11937 12747 12748 12749 12750 12957 12958 12959 12960]
• Total livetime of all observations (hrs): 19.7
• Total livetime of selected observations (hrs): 3.3
• ZD range (deg): 0 - 60

Analysis information

Monte Carlo simulations

/fefs/aswg/data/mc/DL2/AllSky 20240131_allsky_v0.10.5_all_dec_base/TestingDataset/dec_2276/

DL1 data

Standard DL1b files produced by LSTOSA (lstchain v0.10) /fefs/aswg/data/real/DL1/YYYYMMDD/v0.10/tailcut84/dl1_LST-1.RunXXXXX.h5

Random forest

/fefs/aswg/data/models/AllSky/20240131_allsky_v0.10.5_all_dec_base/

• IRF :