The future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of several tens of telescopes of different mirror sizes. CTA will provide next generation sensitivity to very high energy photons from few tens of GeV to >100 TeV. Several focal plane instrumentation options are currently being evaluated inside the CTA consortium. In this paper, the current status of the FlashCam prototyping project is described. FlashCam is based on a fully digital camera readout concept and features a clean separation between photon detector plane and signal digitization/triggering electronics.
@article{arxiv.1211.3684,
title = {FlashCam: A fully digital camera for CTA telescopes},
author = {G. Pühlhofer and C. Bauer and A. Biland and D. Florin and C. Föhr and A. Gadola and G. Hermann and C. Kalkuhl and J. Kasperek and T. Kihm and J. Koziol and A. Manalaysay and A. Marszalek and P. J. Rajda and T. Schanz and S. Steiner and U. Straumann and C. Tenzer and P. Vogler and A. Vollhardt and Q. Weitzel and K. Winiarski and K. Zietara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.3684},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 2012 Heidelberg Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1211.1840