Development of an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
A Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment has been developed for observations of gamma-ray induced air-showers at energies from 10 to 10 eV. The camera consists of 427 pixels, arranged in a hexagonal shape at 0.17 intervals, each of which is a 3/4-inch diameter photomultiplier module with a Winston-cone--shaped light guide. The camera was designed to have a large dynamic range of signal linearity, a wider field of view, and an improvement in photon collection efficiency compared with the CANGAROO-II camera. The camera, and a number of the calibration experiments made to test its performance, are described in detail in this paper.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210254,
title = {Development of an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment},
author = {S. Kabuki and K. Tsuchiya and K. Okumura and R. Enomoto and T. Uchida and H. Tsunoo and Shin. Hayashi and Sei. Hayashi and F. Kajino and A. Maeshiro and I. Tada and C. Itoh and CANGAROO-II collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210254},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages, 29 figures, elsart.cls, to appear in NIM-A