皮埃尔·奥格天文台的荧光探测器
天体物理仪器与方法
2010-09-09 v1
摘要
皮埃尔·奥格天文台是一个用于探测超高能宇宙射线的混合探测器。它将一个用于测量地面次级粒子的表面阵列与一个用于测量阵列上方大气中空气簇射发展的荧光探测器相结合。荧光探测器包含24台大型望远镜，专门用于测量由宇宙射线空气簇射带电粒子引起的氮荧光。在本文中，我们描述了荧光探测器的组成部分，包括其光学系统、相机设计、电子设备以及相对和绝对校准系统。我们还讨论了探测器的运行和监测。最后，我们评估了探测器的性能和簇射重建的精度。
引用
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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4282},
year = {2010}
}
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53 pages. Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A