The SST-1M is a 4-m diameter mirror Davies-Cotton gamma-ray telescope. It has been designed to cover the energy range above 500 GeV and to be part of an array of telescopes separated by 150-200 m. Its innovative camera is featuring large area hexagonal silicon photo-multipliers as photon detectors and a fully digital trigger and readout system. Here, the strategy and the methods for its calibration are presented, together with the obtained results. In particular, the off and on-site calibration strategies are demonstrated on the first camera prototype. The performances of the camera in terms of charge and time resolution are described.
@article{arxiv.2008.04716,
title = {Large scale characterization and calibration strategy of a SiPM-based camera for gamma-ray astronomy},
author = {C. Alispach and J. Borkowski and F. R. Cadoux and N. De Angelis and D. Della Volpe and Y. Favre and M. Heller and J. Juryšek and E. Lyard and D. Mandat and L. David M. Miranda and T. Montaruli and A. Nagai and D. Neise and T. R. Njoh Ekoume and M. Pech and P. Rajda and Y. Renier and V. Sliusar and R. Walter and K. Zietara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.04716},
year = {2020}
}