Cloud Detection using Night Sky Background Light at the Pierre Auger Observatory

作者：Fedor Tairli, Adila Abdul Halim, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, I. Allekotte, Kévin Almeida Cheminant, Alejandro Almela, Roberto Aloisio, Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz, Antonio Ambrosone, Juan Ammerman Yebra, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Belén Andrada, Luciana Andrade Dourado, S. Andringa, Lorenzo Apollonio, Carla Aramo, Enrico Arnone, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velázquez, P. Assis, Gael Flores Avila, Emanuele Avocone, Alena Bakalová, Felicia Barbato, Adriel Bartz Mocellin, Jose A. Bellido, Corinne Bérat, Mario E. Bertaina, Marta Bianciotto, Peter L. Biermann, Virginia Binet, Kathrin Bismark, Teresa Bister, J. Biteau, Jiří Blažek, Johannes Blümer, Martina Boháčová, Denise Boncioli, C. Bonifazi, Luan Bonneau Arbeletche, Nataliia Borodai, J. Brack, P. Gabriel Brichetto Orchera, Florian Lukas Briechle, A. Bueno, S. Buitink, Mario Buscemi, Max Büsken, Anthony Bwembya, K. S. Caballero‐Mora, Sergio Cabana-Freire, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Federico Campuzano, Jorge Caraça-Valente, R. Caruso, Antonella Castellina, Fernando Catalani, Gabriella Cataldi, Lorenzo Cazon, Marcos Cerda, Berenika Čermáková, Alessandro Cermenati, J. A. Chinellato, J. Chudoba, L. Chytka, R. W. Clay, Agustín Cobos Cerutti, Roberta Colalillo, R. Conceição, Giovanni Consolati, Matteo Conte, Fabio Convenga, Diego Correia dos Santos, Pedro J. Costa, C. E. Covault, M. Cristinziani, Carlo Salvattore Cruz Sanchez, S. Dasso, K. Daumiller, B. R. Dawson, Rogerio M. de Almeida, Eric-Teunis de Boone, Beatriz de Errico, Joaquín de Jesús, S. J. de Jong, João de Mello Neto, I. De Mitri, Jaime de Oliveira, Danelise de Oliveira Franco, Francesco de Palma, Vitor de Souza, Emanuele De Vito, Antonino Del Popolo, Olivier Deligny, Nikolas Denner, Luca Deval, Armando di Matteo, C. Dobrigkeit, Juan Carlos D’Olivo, Luis Miguel Domingues Mendes, Qader Dorosti, Joao dos Anjos, Rita Cassia dos Anjos, Jan Ebr, Fiona H. Ellwanger, Ralph Engel, Italo Epicoco, M. Erdmann, Alberto Etchegoyen, Carmelo Evoli, Heino Falcke, Glennys R. Farrar, A. C. Fauth, Tim Fehler, Fridtjof Feldbusch, Alexandra R. Fernandes, Mateo Fernandez, Brian Fick, Juan Manuel Figueira, Paul Filip, A. Filipčič, Thomas Fitoussi, Benjamin Flaggs, Tomáš Fodran, Antonio Franco, Milton Freitas, Toshihiro Fujii, Alan Fuster, Cristina Galea, B. Garćıa, Chloé Gaudu, Piera Luisa Ghia, Ugo GIACCARI, Fabian Gobbi, Fernando Gollan, Geraldina Golup, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Primo F. Gómez Vitale, Juan Pablo Gongora, Juan Manuel Gonzalez, Nicolás Martín González, D. Góra, A. Gorgi, Marvin Gottowik, F. Guarino, Germano Guedes, Lukas Gülzow, Steffen Hahn, P. Hamal, Matías Rolf Hampel, Patricia María Hansen, Violet M. Harvey, A. Haungs, T. Hebbeker, C. Hojvat, Jörg R. Hörandel, Pavel Horváth, M. Hrabovský, T. Huege, A. Insolia, Paula Gina Isar, Mohamed Ismaiel, Petr Janecek, Vlastimil Jílek, K.‐H. Kampert, B. Keilhauer, Abha Khakurdikar, Varada Varma Kizakke Covilakam, Hans Klages, Matthias Kleifges, Jelena Köhler, Frederik Krieger, Margita Kubátová, Norbert Kunka, Bruno L. Lago, Niklas Langner, Nicolas Leal, Marcelo Augusto Leigui de Oliveira, Yago Lema-Capeans, Antoine Letessier-Selvon, Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon, L. Lopes, Jon Paul Lundquist, M. Mallamaci, Dusan Mandat, P. Mantsch, Federico Maria Mariani, Analisa Mariazzi, Ioana Codrina Maris, G. Marsella, Daniele Martello, Sara Martinelli, Miguel A. Martins, Hermann-Josef Mathes, J. Matthews, Giorgio Matthiae, Eric William Mayotte, Sonja Mayotte, Peter Mazur, Gustavo Medina‐Tanco, Janning Meinert, Diego Melo, Alexander Menshikov, Carmen Merx, Stanislav Michal, María Isabel Micheletti, L. Miramonti, Megha Mogarkar, Silvia Mollerach, F. Montanet, Leonel Morejón, Katharine Mulrey, R. Mussa, Wilson M. Namasaka, Shefali Negi, L. Nellen, Khoa D. Nguyen, Gabriela Nicora, Marcus Niechciol, Dave Nitz, Dalibor Nosek, Alexander Novikov, Vladimír Novotný, L. Nožka, Achille Nucita, Luis A. Núñez, José Ochoa, Cainã Oliveira, Leo Östman, M. Palatka, Juan Pallotta, Shayoni Panja, G. Parente, Therese Paulsen, Jannis Pawlowsky, M. Pech, Jan Pękala, Rodrigo Pelayo, Vincent Pelgrims, Luiz Augusto Pereira, Edyvânia Emily Pereira Martins, Carmina Pérez Bertolli, Lorenzo Perrone, S. Petrera, Camilla Petrucci, T. Pierog, M. Pimenta, Manuel Platino, Bjarni Pont, Mohsen Pourmohammad Shahvar, Paolo Privitera, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Michael Prouza, Krzysztof Pytel, Sven Querchfeld, Julian Rautenberg, D. Ravignani, João Vítor Reginatto Akim, Alex Reuzki, J. Řídký, Felix Riehn, Markus Risse, V. Rizi, Ezequiel Rodríguez, Gonzalo Rodriguez Fernandez, Jorge Rubén Rodriguez Rojo, Simone Rossoni, Markus Roth, Esteban Roulet, Adrián Rovero, A. Sǎftoiu, Mohit Saharan, F. Salamida, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Gaetano Salina, Pranav Sampathkumar, Nicolas San Martin, Jose Sanabria Gomez, F. Sánchez, Edivaldo Moura Santos, Eva Santos, F. Sarazin, R. Sarmento, Ricardo Sato, Pierpaolo Savina, Viviana Scherini, H. Schieler, Martin Schimassek, Michael Schimp, David Schmidt, O. Schölten, Harm Schoorlemmer, Petr Schovanek, Frank Schröder, Josina Schulte, Tobias Schulz, Sergio J Sciutto, Marina Scornavacche, Adrian Sedoski, A. Segreto, Srijan Sehgal, Shima Ujjani Shivashankara, G. Sigl, Katarína Simkova, F. Simon, Radomir Šmída, Paul Sommers, Ruben Squartini, Maximilian Stadelmaier, Samo Stanič, Jarosław Stasielak, Patrick Stassi, S. Strähnz, Maximilian Straub, Tiina Suomijärvi, A. D. Supanitsky, Zuzana Svozilikova, Karolina Syrokvas, Zbigniew Szadkowski, Matteo Tambone, A. Tapia, Carla Taricco, Charles Timmermans, Олена Ткаченко, Petr Tobiska, Carlos J. Todero Peixoto, B. Tomé, Andres Travaini, P. Trávnı́ček, Matias Jorge Tueros, M. Unger, Rukije Uzeiroska, Lukáš Vaclavek, Martin Vacula, Igor Vaiman, Jose F. Valdés Galicia, Laura Valore, Pim van Dillen, Enrique Varela, Veronika Vašíčková, Adriana Vásquez-Ramírez, Darko Veberič, Indira D. Vergara Quispe, Stef Verpoest, V. Verzi, J. Vícha, Jacco Vink, S. Vorobiov, Jhansi Bhavani Vuta, Clara Keiko Oliveira Watanabe, A. A. Watson, Andreas Weindl, Melanie Weitz, Lawrence Wiencke, H. Wilczyński, Brian Wundheiler, Bin Yue, Alexey Yushkov, E. Zas, Danilo Zavrtanik, Marko Zavrtanik · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.22323/1.501.0408 · 研究领域：Impact of Light on Environment and Health、Optical Wireless Communication Technologies、Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies

Rejection of cloud-contaminated data is a complex and important process at the Pierre Auger Observatory, one which combines information from several sources, including IR cameras, lidars, and satellite imaging. With the deteriorating quality of the IR cameras and challenges in using other sources, we propose a new method. We use continuous detector monitoring measurements to build a large database of night sky background fluxes for each pixel across 27 telescopes. Using this database, we generate the expected background flux and define cloud rejection thresholds. Through a straightforward analysis we construct boolean cloud-contamination masks. We demonstrate some results of the analysis, including comparisons with cloud detected using infra-red observations.