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): 4.5
ZD range (deg): 0 - 60

Analysis steps

R0 : uncalibrated RAW waveforms from the camera
R1 : calibrated waveforms from the camera
DL1a : integrated charge and peak position of the waveform
DL1b : image parameters (width, length, intensity…)
DL2 : event parameters (energy, direction, time…)
DL3 : lists of reconstructed events after event selection with corresponding IRFs

Analysis information

Data quality

The list with the runs passing data quality

Monte Carlo simulations

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

DL1 data

/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/

DL2 data

 /fefs/aswg/workspace/gloriamaria.cicciari/DL3/PKS1424/

DL3 data and IRF

 /fefs/aswg/workspace/gloriamaria.cicciari/DL3/PKS1424/

Analysis results

Preliminary Theta2 plots

Theta2 plots obtained from DL2 data using the explore_DL2.ipynb code

Energy range: 0.0 - 0.2 TeV
Excess: 690.000; Off: 155056
Gamma rate: 0.675 events / minute
Off rate: 151.779 events / minute
alpha (backg normalization): 1.000
Li & Ma Significance: 1.24 standard deviations

Energy range: 0.2 - 1000000.0 TeV
Excess: -6.333; Off: 415
Gamma rate: -0.006 events / minute
Off rate: 0.406 events / minute
alpha (backg normalization): 0.333
Li & Ma Significance: 0.00 standard deviations

Inspect the DL3 file content

Spatial distribution of events (typically on a plane of celestial coordinates such as RA/Dec or local altitude/azimuth coordinates)
Energy distribution (spectrum of events)
Temporal distribution (histogram of events over time)
Angular offset distribution (angular distance from the centre of the field of view)

Selection of observations

Filters applied to select just a subset of the observation list based on source name, zenith angle or livetime

max_zen = 70 (in deg for a maximum limit on zenith pointing of observations)

min_time = 300 (in seconds for minimum livetime of each observation)

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: 19.7 h
Total livetime of selected observations 4.5 hrs

Define Target position and energy ranges for reconstructed events

OrderedDict([('CREATOR', 'pyirf v0.10.1'),
            ('HDUDOC',
             'https://github.com/open-gamma-ray-astro/gamma-astro-data-formats'),
            ('HDUVERS', '0.2'),
            ('HDUCLASS', 'GADF'),
            ('HDUCLAS1', 'RESPONSE'),
            ('HDUCLAS2', 'EFF_AREA'),
            ('HDUCLAS3', 'POINT-LIKE'),
            ('HDUCLAS4', 'AEFF_2D'),
            ('DATE', '2024-06-27 16:42:06.949'),
            ('TELESCOP', 'CTA-N'),
            ('INSTRUME', 'LST-1'),
            ('FOVALIGN', 'RADEC'),
            ('B_TOTAL', 38.592769622802734),
            ('B_INC', 0.6519277095794678),
            ('ZEN_PNT', 38.11381),
            ('AZ_PNT', 88.21244),
            ('B_DELTA', 60.12539),
            ('EXTNAME', 'EFFECTIVE AREA')])

Spectral Fit will be done in energy edges: [ 0.01584893  0.02511886  0.03981072  0.06309573  0.1  0.15848932 
0.25118864 0.39810717  0.63095734  1  1.58489319  2.51188643 3.98107171  6.30957344 10] TeV
LC will be estimated from  0.10000000000000002 TeV to  10.000000000000002 TeV

Theta2 plots

Theta2 plots obtained from DL3 data using the post_DL3_analysis.ipynb code

Excess plots

Excess plots obtained from DL3 data using the post_DL3_analysis.ipynb code

SED and LC

SED and LC obtained from DL3 data using the post_DL3_analysis.ipynb code

SED and LC preliminaries that only give us the upper limits. (We reserve the use of a more polished code for analysis).

The analysis will need to be fine-tuned because of the lack of detection.

PKS1424+240 (LST) analysis - neutrino candidate

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