Performance Verification of the FlashCam Prototype Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future gamma-ray observatory that is planned to significantly improve upon the sensitivity and precision of the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes. The observatory will consist of several dozens of telescopes with different sizes and equipped with different types of cameras. Of these, the FlashCam camera system is the first to implement a fully digital signal processing chain which allows for a traceable, configurable trigger scheme and flexible signal reconstruction. As of autumn 2016, a prototype FlashCam camera for the medium-sized telescopes of CTA nears completion. First results of the ongoing system tests demonstrate that the signal chain and the readout system surpass CTA requirements. The stability of the system is shown using long-term temperature cycling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.09528,
title = {Performance Verification of the FlashCam Prototype Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {F. Werner and C. Bauer and S. Bernhard and M. Capasso and S. Diebold and F. Eisenkolb and S. Eschbach 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. Marszalek and M. Pfeifer and G. Principe and G. Pühlhofer and S. Pürckhauer 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 D. Wolf and K. Zietara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.09528},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages, 13 figures, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors (RICH 2016), Lake Bled, Slovenia