The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is proposed for the Small-Sized Telescope component of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). GCT's dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) optical system allows the use of a compact camera with small form-factor photosensors. The GCT camera is ~0.4 m in diameter and has 2048 pixels; each pixel has a ~0.2 degree angular size, resulting in a wide field-of-view. The design of the GCT camera is high performance at low cost, with the camera housing 32 front-end electronics modules providing full waveform information for all of the camera's 2048 pixels. The first GCT camera prototype, CHEC-M, was commissioned during 2015, culminating in the first Cherenkov images recorded by a SC telescope and the first light of a CTA prototype. In this contribution we give a detailed description of the GCT camera and present preliminary results from CHEC-M's commissioning.
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@article{arxiv.1608.03420,
title = {The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {Anthony M. Brown and A. Abchiche and D. Allan and J. P. Amans and T. P. Armstrong and A. Balzer and D. Berge and C. Boisson and J. -J. Bousquet and M. Bryan and G. Buchholtz and P. M. Chadwick and H. Costantini and G. Cotter and M. K. Daniel and A. De Franco and F. De Frondat and J. -L. Dournaux and D. Dumas and G. Fasola and S. Funk and J. Gironnet and J. A. Graham and T. Greenshaw and O. Hervet and N. Hidaka and J. A. Hinton and J. -M. Huet and I. Jegouzo and T. Jogler and M. Kraus and J. S. Lapington and P. Laporte and J. Lefaucheur and S. Markoff and T. Melse and L. Mohrmann and P. Molyneux and S. J. Nolan and A. Okumura and J. P. Osborne and R. D. Parsons and S. Rosen and D. Ross and G. Rowell and Y. Sato and F. Sayede and J. Schmoll and H. Schoorlemmer and M. Servillat and H. Sol and V. Stamatescu and M. Stephan and R. Stuik and J. Sykes and H. Tajima and J. Thornhill and L. Tibaldo and C. Trichard and J. Vink and J. J. Watson and R. White and N. Yamane and A. Zech and A. Zink and J. Zorn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03420},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages, 6 figures, published in the proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Edinburgh 2016