The FlashCam group is currently preparing photomultiplier-tube based cameras proposed for the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The cameras are designed around the FlashCam readout concept which is the first fully-digital readout system for Cherenkov cameras, based on commercial FADCs and FPGAs as key components for the front-end electronics modules and a high performance camera server as back-end. This contribution describes the progress of the full-scale FlashCam camera prototype currently under construction, as well as performance results also obtained with earlier demonstrator setups. Plans towards the production and implementation of FlashCams on site are also briefly presented.
@article{arxiv.1509.02434,
title = {FlashCam: a fully-digital camera for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {G. Pühlhofer and C. Bauer and S. Bernhard and M. Capasso and S. Diebold and F. Eisenkolb and D. Florin and C. Föhr and S. Funk and A. Gadola and F. Garrecht and G. Hermann and I. Jung and O. Kalekin and C. Kalkuhl and J. Kasperek and T. Kihm and R. Lahmann and A. Manalaysay and A. Marszalek and M. Pfeifer and P. J. Rajda and O. Reimer and A. Santangelo and T. Schanz and T. Schwab and S. Steiner and U. Straumann and C. Tenzer and A. Vollhardt and Q. Weitzel and F. Werner and D. Wolf and K. Zietara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02434},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
8 pages, 6 figures. In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894