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TAIGA - an advanced hybrid detector complex for astroparticle physics and high energy gamma-ray astronomy

by N. M. Budnev, I. Astapov, P. Bezyazeekov, E. Bonvech, A. Borodin, A. Bulan, D. Chernov, A. Chiavassa, A. Dyachok, A. Gafarov, A. Garmash, V. Grebenyuk, E. Gress, O. Gress, T. Gress, A. Grinyuk, O. Grishin, A. D. Ivanova, A. L. Ivanova, N. Kalmykov, V. Kindin, S. Kiryuhin, R. Kokoulin, K. Kompaniets, E. Korosteleva, V. Kozhin, E. Kravchenko, A. Kryukov, L. Kuzmichev, A. Lagutin, M. Lavrova, Y. Lemeshev, B. Lubsandorzhiev, N. Lubsandorzhiev, A. Lukanov, D. Lukyantsev, S. Malakhov, R. Mirgazov, R. Monkhoev, E. Osipova, A. Pakhorukov, L. Pankov, A. Pan, A. Panov, A. Petrukhin, I. Poddubnyi, D. Podgrudkov, V. Ponomareva, E. Popova, E. Postnikov, V. Prosin, V. Ptuskin, A. Pushnin, R. Raikin, A. Razumov, G. Rubtsov, E. Ryabov, V. Samoliga, A. Satyshev, A. Silaev, A. Silaev, A. Sidorenkov, A. Skurikhin, A. Sokolov, L. Sveshnikova, V. Tabolenko, L. Tkachev, A. Tanaev, M. Ternovoy, R. Togoo, N. Ushakov, A. Vaidyanathan, P. Volchugov, N. Volkov, D. Voronin, A. Zagorodnikov, D. Zhurov, I. Yashin

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Anna Ivanova
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Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13757v3  (pdf)
Date submitted: 2022-09-02 03:34
Submitted by: Ivanova, Anna
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI2022)
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Gravitation, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • High-Energy Physics - Experiment
Approach: Experimental

Abstract

The physical motivations, present status, main results in study of cosmic rays and in the field of gamma-ray astronomy as well future plans of the TAIGA-1 (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) project are presented. The TAIGA observatory addresses ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and astroparticle physics at energies from a few TeV to several PeV, as well as cosmic ray physics from 100 TeV to several EeV. The pilot TAIGA-1 complex is located in the Tunka valley, ~50 km West from the southern tip of the lake Baikal.

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Anonymous on 2022-10-02  [id 2865]

Dear the authors,

I think the paper is basically fine. The following are minor comments:

Abstract Is "50 km West" "50 km west"?

page 4 3.1.1 . 4th-5th lines (width, length, azwidth, dist, consentration) should be explained more concretely. Usual readers do not understand them. Especially azwidth and so on. . 5th line Forrrest classifier ---> Forest Classifier . 9th line Should "5.104 m^2" be "5,104 m^2"? . 14-15th lines IACT (Size) is not clear. . 20-21st lines What does "The Hillas parameters 'On'" mean?

page 5 .1st line 20m ---> 20 m . 5th line What is "2.5 105 m^2"?

page 7 .8th line "m" of "1 m^2" should not be italic. Only this uses italic for unit in this paper.

References Please add "." at the end of all the sentences.

That's all.

Best regards, a reviewer

Anonymous on 2022-10-06  [id 2883]

(in reply to Anonymous Comment on 2022-10-02 [id 2865])
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The referee writes:

Abstract Is "50 km West" "50 km west"?

Our response:

Yes. "50 km west"

The referee writes:

page 4 3.1.1 . 4th-5th lines (width, length, azwidth, dist, consentration) should be explained more concretely. Usual readers do not understand them. Especially azwidth and so on.

Our response:

Explanations for the average reader will take up too much space, but the volume of the article is limited. Maybe we'll do the references more prominently? For example - "The shape of the image is characterized by the Hillas parameters (width, length, dist, con et al) which are restored by the values of signal amplitudes in camera pixels. Width and length parameters are standard deviations along the minor and major axis, dist parameter is distance from the weighted centroid of the image to the source, con is concentration parameter of the image. A detailed description of these and other Hillas parameters is given in [34,35]."

The referee writes:

5th line Forrrest classifier ---> Forest Classifier .

Our response:

Forest Classifier (Sorry. Misspell)

The referee writes:

9th line Should "5.104 m^2" be "5,104 m^2"?

Our response:

5 *10^4 m^2 (Sorry. Misspell)

The referee writes:

14-15th lines IACT (Size) is not clear.

Our response:

The energy of EAS can be determined by the total number of photoelectrons detected by IACT and the distance from the EAS core, calculated by Hillas parameters described in [34, 35, 41].

The referee writes:

20-21st lines What does "The Hillas parameters 'On'" mean?

Our response:

The Hillas parameters (called ‘On’) are calculated relative to this position, and the parameters of background events (called ‘Off’) are calculated relative to the anti-source located at a distance of 1.2 degrees from the center, but in the opposite direction.

The referee writes:

page 5 . 1st line 20m ---> 20 m .

Our response:

Yes. 20m ---> 20 m.

The referee writes:

5th line What is "2.5 105 m^2"?

Our response:

5*10^5 m^2 (Sorry. Misspell)

The referee writes:

page 7 .8th line "m" of "1 m^2" should not be italic. Only this uses italic for unit in this paper.

Our response:

Yes. "m" of "1 m^2" is not italic.

The referee writes:

References. Please add "." at the end of all the sentences.

Our response:

Yes.

Thank you for your comments! Best wishes, authors