Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera
| Autor: | Colin B. Adams, Giovanni Ambrosi, Michelangelo Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, Timothy Arlen, Wystan Benbow, Bruna Bertucci, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Jonathan Biteau, Massimiliano Bitossi, Alfonso Boiano, Carmela Bonavolontà, Richard Bose, Aurelien Bouvier, Mario Buscemi, Aryeh Brill, Anthony M. Brown, James H. Buckley, Rodolfo Canestrari, Massimo Capasso, Mirco Caprai, Paolo Coppi, Corbin E. Covault, Davide Depaoli, Leonardo Di Venere, Manel Errando, Stephan Fegan, Qi Feng, Emanuele Fiandrini, Amy Furniss, Markus Garczarczyk, Alasdair Gent, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Enrico Giro, Robert Halliday, Olivier Hervet, Gareth Hughes, Simone Incardona, Thomas B. Humensky, Maria Ionica, Weidong Jin, Caitlin A. Johnson, David Kieda, Frank Krennrich, Andrey Kuznetsov, Jon Lapington, Francesco Licciulli, Serena Loporchio, Giovanni Marsella, Vincenzo Masone, Kevin Meagher, Thomas Meures, Brent A. W. Mode, Samuel A. I. Mognet, Reshmi Mukherjee, Akira Okumura, Francesca R. Pantaleo, Riccardo Paoletti, Federico Di Pierro, Deivid Ribeiro, Luca Riitano, Emmet Roache, Duncan Ross, Julien Rousselle, Andrea Rugliancich, Marcos Santander, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, Ruo-Yu Shang, Brandon Stevenson, Leonardo Stiaccini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Leslie P. Taylor, Julian Thornhill, Luca Tosti, Giovanni Tripodo, Valerio Vagelli, Massimo Valentino, Justin Vandenbroucke, Vladimir V. Vassiliev, Scott P. Wakely, Jason J. Watson, Richard White, Patrick Wilcox, David A. Williams, Matthew Wood, Peter Yu, Adrian Zink |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Adams C.B., Ambrosi G., Ambrosio M., Aramo C., Arlen T., Benbow W., Bertucci B., Bissaldi E., Biteau J., Bitossi M., Boiano A., Bonavolonta C., Bose R., Bouvier A., Buscemi M., Brill A., Brown A.M., Buckley J.H., Canestrari R., Capasso M., Caprai M., Coppi P., Covault C.E., Depaoli D., Di Venere L., Errando M., Fegan S., Feng Q., Fiandrini E., Furniss A., Garczarczyk M., Gent A., Giglietto N., Giordano F., Giro E., Halliday R., Hervet O., Hughes G., Incardona S., Humensky T.B., Ionica M., Jin W., Johnson C.A., Kieda D., Krennrich F., Kuznetsov A., Lapington J., Licciulli F., Loporchio S., Marsella G., Masone V., Meagher K., Meures T., Mode B.A.W., Mognet S.A.I., Mukherjee R., Okumura A., Pantaleo F.R., Paoletti R., Di Pierro F., Ribeiro D., Riitano L., Roache E., Ross D., Rousselle J., Rugliancich A., Santander M., Schneider M., Schoorlemmer H., Shang R.-Y., Stevenson B., Stiaccini L., Tajima H., Taylor L.P., Thornhill J., Tosti L., Tripodo G., Vagelli V., Valentino M., Vandenbroucke J., Vassiliev V.V., Wakely S.P., Watson J.J., White R., Wilcox P., Williams D.A., Wood M., Yu P., Zink A. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
instrumentation Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Mechanical Engineering Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Cherenkov telescope array Space and Planetary Science Control and Systems Engineering ddc:530 prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) silicon photomultipliers |
| Zdroj: | Journal of astronomical telescopes, instruments, and systems 8(01), 014007-1 (2022). doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007 |
| Popis: | Journal of astronomical telescopes, instruments, and systems 8(01), 014007-1 (2022). doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007 The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a novel dual mirror optics design which reduces the plate scale and allows for the use of silicon photomultipliers as photodetectors. The prototype pSCT camera currently has only the central sector instrumented with 25 camera modules (1600 pixels), providing a 2.68$^{\circ}$ field of view (FoV). The camera electronics are based on custom TARGET (TeV array readout with GSa/s sampling and event trigger) application specific integrated circuits. Field programmable gate arrays sample incoming signals at a gigasample per second. A single backplane provides camera-wide triggers. An upgrade of the pSCT camera is in progress, which will fully populate the focal plane. This will increase the number of pixels to 11,328, the number of backplanes to 9, and the FoV to 8.04$^{\circ}$. Here we give a detailed description of the pSCT camera, including the basic concept, mechanical design, detectors, electronics, current status and first light. Published by SPIE, [Bellingham, Wash.] |
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