The Single Mirror Small Sized Telescope For The Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Small Size Telescope with Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed types of Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). About 70 SST telescopes will be part the CTA southern array which will also include Medium Sized Telescopes (MST) in its threshold configuration. Optimized for the detection of gamma rays in the energy range from 5 TeV to 300 TeV, the SST-1M uses a Davies-Cotton optics with a 4 m dish diameter with a field of view of 9 degrees. The Cherenkov light resulting from the interaction of the gamma-rays in the atmosphere is focused onto a 88 cm side-to-side hexagonal photo-detection plane. The latter is composed of 1296 hollow light guides coupled to large area hexagonal silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The SiPM readout is fully digital readout as for the trigger system. The compact and lightweight design of the SST-1M camera offers very high performance ideal for gamma-ray observation requirement. In this contribution, the concept, design, performance and status of the first telescope prototype are presented.
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@article{arxiv.1610.01867,
title = {The Single Mirror Small Sized Telescope For The Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {M. Heller and E. jr Schioppa and A. Porcelli and I. Troyano Pujadas and K. Zietara and D. della Volpe and T. Montaruli and F. Cadoux and Y. Favre and J. A. Aguilar and A. Christov and E. Prandini and P. Rajda and M. Rameez and W. Bilnik and J. Blocki and L. Bogacz and J. Borkowski and T. Bulik and A. Frankowski and M. Grudzinska and B. Idzkowski and M. Jamrozy and M. Janiak and J. Kasperek and K. Lalik and E. Lyard and E. Mach and D. Mandat and A. Marszalek and L. D. Medina Miranda and J. Michalowski and R. Moderski and A. Neronov and J. Niemiec and M. Ostrowski and P. Pasko and M. Pech and P. Schovanek and K. Seweryn and V. Sliusar and K. Skowron and L. Stawarz and M. Stodulska and M. Stodulski and R. Walter and M. Wiecek and A. Zagdanski and the CTA consortium},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01867},
year = {2017}
}
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7 pages, figure 6, Conference Gamma 2016 in Heildelberg